Review of Unknown World

I think prints of this film must have been cheap to purchase for local TV stations. When I was growing up in the fifties, I must have seen this movie--or portions of it--at least once a month. It might have been more engaging when I was seven years old, but there is still something about it that makes it different than other fifties sci-fi. Perhaps it's the pacifist sentiments of the script, when, at the time, most popular entertainment was hyping the bright promise of our atomic future. Then again, it might be Marilyn Nash, who was quite beautiful, and in a modern way, rather than in that fifties bombshell way. Amazing that she went from being discovered by Charlie Chaplin to appearing in this low budget film in the course of a couple years. As to Victor Killian not be credited, his bio indicates he was black listed during the McCarthy years for his leftist political leanings. Perhaps those leftist views are why he does seem to bring a lot sincerity to his character's opposition to the direction of modern society depicted in the film's prologue.