Earth vs. the Flying Saucers

Extra-terrestrials flying in high tech flying saucers contact scientist Dr. Russell Marvin as part of a plan to enslave the inhabitants of Planet Earth.

• Director: Fred F. Sears
• Genre:Fantasy / Horror / Sci-Fi
• Runtime:80 minutes

Cast

Hugh Marlowe : Dr. Russell A. Marvin
Joan Taylor : Carol Marvin
Donald Curtis : Maj. Huglin
Morris Ankrum : Brig. Gen. John Hanley
John Zaremba : Prof. Kanter

The film is set in 1956, a year before the first satellite, Sputnik I, orbited the earth. “Project Skyhook,” a U.S. effort to launch a dozen satellites, is visited by a flying saucer. A misunderstanding leads to the aliens being fired on, and they retaliate by destroying the project site, killing everyone except the two principal characters, Dr. and Mrs. Marvin (a scientist and his wife/secretary). The sequence of events quickly spirals out of control and leads to a full scale invasion. Flying saucers attack Washington, D.C., Paris, London and Moscow. In the end, the alien saucers are defeated over the skies of Washington by a device using high-power sound coupled with an electric field that stops the saucers’ propulsion systems. Read more