It Conquered the World concerns an embittered human scientist who guides an alien creature called Zontar from Venus to the Earth, so that it can bring peace to our troubled world by ridding humankind of its feelings and emotions. I think the rest of it was filmed along the California Aqueduct. They're big bastards, too, coming in at about 6 inches wide.
The Venusian is a man-sized creature with a distinctly conical body, the base of which is equipped with short frills or tendrils which likely aid in locomotion. Tim Holt had come out of retirement to do this movie. Twill calls the lab and gets no answer.
That when we seek such perfection we only find death, fire, loss, disillusionment, the end of everything that’s gone forward. Production Company – Sunset.Peter Graves (Dr Paul Nelson), Lee Van Cleef (Dr Tom Anderson), Beverly Garland (Claire Anderson), Sally Fraser (Joan Nelson), Russ Bender (Brigadier-General James Pattick)An alien force is sabotaging satellite launches. She's pulled into the water by the monster.
A young couple disappear after going for a swim. The monster stuff was fun, crouching behind a desk with a monster breaking down the wall. They find the deserted patrol boat covered in a strange slime; the jumper's body then floats to the surface, now blackened and drained of bodily fluids. Twill takes a sample of the slime to the base lab for analysis, where he teams up with recently widowed Gail MacKenzie and Dr. Jess Rogers. One such failed launch returns to Earth containing an alien creature.
The film was distributed by United Artists as a double feature with The Vampire.
The invisible superpower that helped dinosaurs conquer the world. And that because of it he is the greatest creature in the universe. With the aid of the idealistically misguided physicist Tom Anderson, it stops power transmission everywhere and sends forth bat-creatures to enslave the minds of authorities.Lou Rusoff’s plot is squarely centred among the clichés of the alien takeover genre – it is not long before the good old Communist analogies are being wheeled out – when the possessed general wants to impose martial law at the base the readiest reason is ‘Communist Threat’. It Conquered the World (1956) Sunset Productions :: American International Pictures / EP: James H. Nicholson, Samuel Z. Arkoff / P: Roger Corman / D: Roger Corman / W: Lou Rusoff, Charles B. Griffith / C: Fred E. West / E: Charles Gross / M: Ronald Stein / S: Peter Graves, Lee Van Cleef, Beverly Garland, Sally Fraser, Russ Bender, Dick Miller, Jonathan Haze
"Respect for the "monster" also dominated a later review of It also has strong arms terminating on long chelae, capable of killing a Described as hyper-intelligent and lacking all kinds of emotions, the Venusian established radio contact with Tom Anderson, who convinced himself that the creature was benevolent and helped pave the way for the invasion.
It Conquered the World is an essential item in the cult of low-budget director Roger Corman. The scientist, however, is totally oblivious to the terrible consequences of his actions.
He was a quiet, very nice man - the most 'unactor' actor that I ever worked with. This vertically-challenge alien did not confer the aura of menace that Corman had … It Conquered the World The Venusians are a sapient extraterrestrial species of conical shaped beings native to the planet Venus.
We shot down on the beach for that. An underwater earthquake in the Sargasso sea yields up the eggs of a long-extinct sea monster. The Brazilian wandering spider is the world's most venomous spider, a category that is obviously not the easiest to win "World's Most Venomous" in. Men have always sought an end to toil and misery and if it can’t be given, it has to be achieved.
The film's poster features a woman in a bathing suit.
It has a menacing face on its torso, containing a mouth with sharp tusk-like teeth on the lower mandible; and a couple of eyes which constitute its weakest spot. I read the book on my kindle and listened to the audiobook version at the same time. As of the mid 20th century they are practically extinct, with only nine remaining individuals, one of which hijacked an Earth satellite and landed on the planet in an attempt to conquer it for future colonization. (See below for Roger Corman’s other films).