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A runaway asteroid dubbed "The Outsider" mysteriously begins orbiting the Earth and threatens it with lethal flying saucers.A runaway asteroid dubbed "The Outsider" mysteriously begins orbiting the Earth and threatens it with lethal flying saucers.A runaway asteroid dubbed "The Outsider" mysteriously begins orbiting the Earth and threatens it with lethal flying saucers.
Carlo D'Angelo
- Gen. Varreck
- (as Carlo d'Angelo)
Joe Pollini
- Pat
- (as Joseph Pollini)
Annamaria Mustari
- Mars Base Technician
- (as Anna Maria Mustari)
Antonio Corevi
- Missile Launch Control Technician
- (uncredited)
John Karlsen
- United Commission Leader
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaIn the US this was passed over by major distributors. It was picked up by a very minor distributor and wasn't released until 1963. As a result, it received scant bookings and remained unseen theatrically in many areas. It was popular via U.S. television syndication later in the 1960s, followed in 1986 when it was widely distributed on VHS (pan and scanned) by the bargain label Goodtimes Home Video.
- Quotes
Cmdr. Robert Cole: Poor Benson. If they opened up his chest, they'd find a formula... where his heart should have been.
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Forgettable early 1960s Italian-made space opera -- except for one thing. That one thing is 70-year-old Claude Rains playing a mad scientist. An asteroid that looks remarkably like a real planet and not all like a hunk of rock begins orbiting the Earth and sends out flying saucers that attack our space fleet. Before the military destroys it, a team of astronauts, including Rains, is sent to the asteroid to have a look at what's inside. Mostly, they find miles of suspended plastic tubing. Very talky, but anytime Rains is on-screen, the movie comes to life. His character is as daffy as the mad scientist he played in "The Invisible Man." Special effects are pathetic and the dubbing is typical for an Italian cheapie of the period.
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- El planeta de los hombres verdes
- Filming locations
- Mushroom Tower, Piazza Pakistan, Rome, Lazio, Italy(tower where terrestrial spaceships depart)
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