Between the accents and the silly special effects this movie provides some excellent B-movie laughs. The character Enid's accent makes her about as British as Barbara Bush. But she makes excellent tea and knows that pharmacists in Britain are called chemists, so it's OK. She provides the love interest to the movie's hero, an American journalist and Bogart wannabe. By contrast, the local constable's over-the-top Scottish accent and dialect makes one wonder if any moment he'll blurt out, "Professor, the engines kanna take no more! They're gonna blow!" Meanwhile, there's a plot involving a planet careening toward Earth and an alien in a diving mask who can't keep his air pressure regulated and lets himself get beat up by the wormiest guy in the movie.
Best line: "Tis a fearsome visitor from another world!"
On a Mystery Science Theater 3000 cheese scale of 1 to 10, this movie is an 8.
Related trivia: Robert Clarke, the actor who plays the American journalist, appears in the 1991 stinker, "Attack from Mars," with Ann Robinson, star of the George Pal classic, "War of the Worlds". "Attack from Mars" is awful, but it proves that a paycheck is a paycheck, even in Hollywood.
Best line: "Tis a fearsome visitor from another world!"
On a Mystery Science Theater 3000 cheese scale of 1 to 10, this movie is an 8.
Related trivia: Robert Clarke, the actor who plays the American journalist, appears in the 1991 stinker, "Attack from Mars," with Ann Robinson, star of the George Pal classic, "War of the Worlds". "Attack from Mars" is awful, but it proves that a paycheck is a paycheck, even in Hollywood.