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This Island Earth ()

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Aliens come to Earth seeking scientists to help them in their war.
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Exeter
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Dr. Ruth Adams
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Dr. Cal Meacham
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Brack
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Dr. Steve Carlson
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The Monitor
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Joe Wilson
Karl Ludwig Lindt ...
Dr. Adolph Engelborg (as Karl L. Lindt)
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Charlotte Alpert ...
Metaluna Woman at Decompression Console (uncredited)
Jack Byron ...
Photographer (uncredited)
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Dr. Hu Ling Tang (uncredited)
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Pilot (uncredited)
Coleman Francis ...
Express Deliveryman (uncredited)
Marc Hamilton ...
Metaluna Inhabitant (uncredited)
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Reporter (uncredited)
Edward Ingram ...
Photographer (uncredited)
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Neutron--Cat (uncredited)
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Mutant (uncredited)
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Dinner Guest (uncredited)
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First Reporter (uncredited)
Les Spears ...
Reporter (uncredited)
Lizalotta Valesca ...
Dr. Marie Pitchner (uncredited)
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Webb (uncredited)

Directed by

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Joseph M. Newman ... (as Joseph Newman)
Jack Arnold ... (uncredited)

Written by

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Franklin Coen ... (screenplay) &
Raymond F. Jones ... (story "The Alien Machine")
George Callahan ... (screenplay)

Produced by

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William Alland ... producer

Music by

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Henry Mancini ... (uncredited)
Hans J. Salter ... (uncredited)
Herman Stein ... (uncredited)

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Clifford Stine ... director of photography

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Virgil W. Vogel ... film editor (as Virgil Vogel)

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William Fritzsche ... color consultant: Technicolor

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Alexander Golitzen ... (art direction)
Richard H. Riedel ... (art direction)

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Russell A. Gausman ... (set decorations)
Julia Heron ... (set decorations)

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Rosemary Odell ... (gowns)

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Joan St. Oegger ... hair stylist
Bud Westmore ... make-up

Production Management

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Sergei Petschnikoff ... unit production manager (uncredited)

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Fred Frank ... assistant director
George Lollier ... assistant director (uncredited)

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Leslie I. Carey ... sound
Robert Pritchard ... sound

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David S. Horsley ... special photography
Clifford Stine ... special photography
Cleo E. Baker ... special effects (uncredited)

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Roswell A. Hoffmann ... optical printing (as Roswell A. Hoffman)
Frank Tipper ... effects animator (uncredited)

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Larry Powell ... stunt pilot (uncredited)

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Lew Swartz ... technician: Technicolor (uncredited)

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Joseph Gershenson ... music supervision
Ethmer Roten ... musician: flute (uncredited)

Script and Continuity Department

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Dorothy Hughes ... script supervisor (uncredited)

Additional Crew

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Dianna Cyrus Bixby ... aircraft pilot (uncredited)
Reynold Brown ... movie poster art (uncredited)
Robert Hickman ... mutant constructor (uncredited)
Frank Inn ... cat trainer (uncredited)
Jack Kevan ... mutant constructor (uncredited)
Chris Mueller ... mutant constructor (uncredited)
Milicent Patrick ... mutant designer (uncredited)
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Plot Summary

The electronic engineer Dr. Cal Meacham is a prominent scientist that is studying industrial application of nuclear energy and also a great pilot. One day, he receives a different condenser and soon his assistant Joe Wilson receives a manual instruction and several components of a sophisticated machine. Cal and Joe build a communication apparatus and a man called Exeter contacts Cal. He tells that Cal has passed the test assembling the Interocitor and invites him to join his research. The intrigued Cal decides to travel to meet Exeter that sends an unmanned airplane to bring him to an isolated facility in Georgia. He is welcomed by Dr. Ruth Adams but she mysteriously does not recall their love affair in the past. They team-up with Dr. Steve Carlson and they note that the other scientists in the facility have been transformed, having a weird behavior. They decide to flee in a car, but they are attacked by rays and Steve dies. Cal and Ruth also witness the facility blowing-up and they escape in an airplane. However they are pulled up into a flying saucer and realize that Exeter is an alien. Whal is the objective of the aliens? Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Also Known As
  • This Island, Earth (United States)
  • Bloodlust in Outer Space (United States)
  • Les Survivants de l'infini (France)
  • Metaluna IV antwortet nicht (Germany)
  • Retorno a la tierra (Spain)
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  • 86 min
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Budget $800,000 (estimated)

Did You Know?

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Trivia In a magazine article, the special effects department admitted that the "mutant" costume originally had legs that matched the upper body. They had so much trouble making the legs look and work properly they were forced by studio deadline to have the mutant wear a pair of trousers. Movie posters show the mutant as it was supposed to appear. See more »
Goofs When Faith Domergue and Rex Reason first enter their new lab and see the orange cat, Faith tells Rex the cat is named "Neutron" because "he's so positive". Any scientist, especially a nuclear fission expert, should know that the proton that is positive; a neutron has no charge. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into War of the Planets (1958). See more »
Soundtracks Eine kleine Nachtmusik: 2nd Movement See more »
Quotes [a mysterious catalog is delivered]
Dr. Cal Meacham: This isn't paper, it's some kind of metal!
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Dr. Cal Meacham: "Interociter incorporating planetary generator". "Interocitor with voltarator". "With astroscope".
Joe Wilson: Here's something my wife could use in the house. An "interocitor incorporating an electron sorter."
Dr. Cal Meacham: Oh, she'd probably gain 20 pounds while it did all the work for her. You know, Joe, according to this, there's no limit to what it can do. Laying a 4-lane highway at the rate of a mile a minute would be a cinch.
Joe Wilson: Cal... maybe we've been working too hard.
Dr. Cal Meacham: "Complete line of interocitor parts, incorporating greater advances than hitherto known in the field of electronics." What exactly is an interocitor?
Joe Wilson: I don't know, and I don't want to know.
Dr. Cal Meacham: Well, I do. I want to know what it is and what it does. Order the list of parts on these pages.
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