The Unearthly (1957)
5/10
IN DEFENSE OF THE UNEARTHLY
15 March 2000
Warning: Spoilers
As a new user to this site, I couldn't believe that this movie was listed as one of the worst 100 of all time. How can that be? Without wanting to be a "spoiler" this movie has one of the greatest last lines of all time (right up there with Some Like It Hot), one that has stayed with me forty years later. Besides, how can a site devoted to the true movie lover rate a movie so low when Myron Healy receives second billing?? Mr. Healy is one of the screens all time leading villains (he's the one who has to fish his silver dollar out of the spittoon in El Dorado), and here he gets to play the hero!!! I was also very fortunate to meet John Carradine in 1968 when he appeared at one of my college's Artist Series. I told him how much I enjoyed this movie. His reply was, "Well, we all have bills to pay." So come on people, lighten up, and enjoy this movie for what it is - the dedicated scientist who tries to find eternal life for himself and his bride. And if a few of his experiments go wrong, so be it.
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