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Space Master X-7

  • 1958
  • Approved
  • 1h 11min
NOTE IMDb
5,2/10
537
MA NOTE
Paul Frees, Lyn Thomas, and Bill Williams in Space Master X-7 (1958)
HorreurScience-fictionThriller

Un champignon venu de l'espace menace de se développer et de se répandre, dévorant tous ceux qui se trouvent sur son passage.Un champignon venu de l'espace menace de se développer et de se répandre, dévorant tous ceux qui se trouvent sur son passage.Un champignon venu de l'espace menace de se développer et de se répandre, dévorant tous ceux qui se trouvent sur son passage.

  • Réalisation
    • Edward Bernds
  • Scénario
    • George Worthing Yates
    • Daniel Mainwaring
    • Edward Bernds
  • Casting principal
    • Bill Williams
    • Lyn Thomas
    • Robert Ellis
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
  • NOTE IMDb
    5,2/10
    537
    MA NOTE
    • Réalisation
      • Edward Bernds
    • Scénario
      • George Worthing Yates
      • Daniel Mainwaring
      • Edward Bernds
    • Casting principal
      • Bill Williams
      • Lyn Thomas
      • Robert Ellis
    • 32avis d'utilisateurs
    • 9avis des critiques
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
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    Rôles principaux28

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    Bill Williams
    Bill Williams
    • John Hand
    Lyn Thomas
    Lyn Thomas
    • Laura Greeling
    Robert Ellis
    Robert Ellis
    • Pvt. Joe Rattigan
    Paul Frees
    Paul Frees
    • Dr. Charles T. Pommer…
    Rhoda Williams
    • Archer - Stewardess
    Joan Barry
    • Jean Meyers - Brunette
    Carol Varga
    Carol Varga
    • Elaine Frohman
    Thomas Browne Henry
    Thomas Browne Henry
    • Prof. West
    Thomas Wilde
    • Collins
    Fred Sherman
    Fred Sherman
    • Mr. Morse - Hotel Manager
    Gregg Martell
    Gregg Martell
    • Jim Dale - Plane Engineer
    Jess Kirkpatrick
    Jess Kirkpatrick
    • Vaccarino - Pilot
    Court Shepard
    • Hendry - Battalion Fire Chief
    Moe Howard
    Moe Howard
    • Retlinger - Cab Driver
    Al Baffert
    • Plane Passenger
    Edward Bernds
    • Television News Announcer
    • (non crédité)
    Robert Bice
    Robert Bice
    • Officer
    • (non crédité)
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      • Réalisation
        • Edward Bernds
      • Scénario
        • George Worthing Yates
        • Daniel Mainwaring
        • Edward Bernds
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      7michael.will

      BLOOD RUST!

      Behind this bland, forgettable and indescriptive title is one of that decade's more interesting low budget items. "Blood Rust" was probably the script's original name, and this refers to the red coloring of Mars which, as is found out on the return of a space probe, is a fungal overgrowth that could easily thrive on the Earth. THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN, while not exactly a remake, shares both the panicky concept and something akin to realism in its approach. SPACE MASTER's an Edward Bernds quickie, no nonsense drive-in fare with logic secondary to pace, but there's a continual teetering on the edge of DETOUR-like brilliance that makes it, if not a classic, quite exceptional.

      The strength of writing is ever evident, as the threat to humanity theme is subverted away from the usual conquering hero routine to documentary-like police procedural, the pursuers taking on near anonymity as our attentions, and sympathies, focus on the fleeing "Typhoid Mary". She's finely played by Lyn Thomas, a mature and intelligent 50s beauty in the Jan Sterling mode. We're told just as much as we need to know about her, that she once was involved in an S&M fling (I kid you not, it's ALL THERE in 1958) with arrogant scientist Paul Frees (Richard Deacon doing Clifton Webb, and does he deliver cutting lines!) Their unholy reliance resulted in a child that she now wants back in her new life of respectability. His experiments with the alien fungus result in his hideous death and the government, knowing that she was with him at the time, has to track her down so that she won't infect the world. However, they can't throw the public into panic (cover-up stuff, another first) by saying why they've put out an all-points bulletin out on her, so she goes into hiding and flees so that she won't be framed for his murder! Now I ask you, how often do you run into plot intricacies (as opposed to absurdities) like this during your typical monster movie round-up?

      At the same time SPACE MASTER X-7 is as frustrating as it's intriguing, because get-it-out-on-schedule Bernds never quite takes that extra step ahead of his time. There's a beautiful scene involving Miss Thomas and a cop the predates PSYCHO, where you're rooting for her to get away and the world's fate be damned, and though this perversion of empathy carries on the irony of it is somehow lost in the climactic shuffle. Said climax, stunningly prepared for in both mood and pacing, aboard a threatened air liner complete with children on the threshold of death, is shied away from in terms of intensity when it could've become a Hitchockian runaway carousel. One feels, by the movie's end, that something truly magnificent just didn't quite break free from the shackles of its period's conventions.

      I think this one's ripe for a remake and hopefully by someone with brains and taste. It certainly has a plot, very friendly to updating, that doesn't sit still. One thing that gets this film footnoted out of the collective amnesia is the presence of Moe Howard as a cab driver. He's funny as can be but plays it straight, as a regular Joe who finds himself in the midst of things, and makes one wish that, like brother Shemp, he and the rest of those Stooges would've done a little more dramatic character work.
      5philipa

      Age and era make a difference

      As a child I spent the summers with my grandparents in northern New Jersey. In the summer of 1959 the parents of a friend of mine were taking him to see a movie at a drive-in and I was invited,which movie didn't matter to me, just a chance to see a movie was great. The movie was Space Master X-7 and as child of 11 it scared the heck out of me (my mental film vault still has a has a clip of the scientist being absorbed by the fungus). That was the 1950's, cold war, Castro and all, traveling to outerspace was still a dream. A child of 11 today would find the movie laughable and the effects lame, but in the dark of a summer night in 1959 the movie had its effect.
      5LCShackley

      Worth it for Paul Frees and Moe Howard fans

      I can't give this film more than five stars, because it's just a standard, low-budget 50s horror flick featuring the usual gimmicks:

      1. Phony narrator claiming this is a "true story" 2. Manmade spacecraft returning to earth with deadly virus/creature 3. Desperate attempt to control spreading of virus 4. Scientist who dies attempting #3

      And really, it's not outstanding in its genre, because it has a clunky ending and it tends to veer from true SF to being a chase picture. Most of the middle of the picture has nothing to do with the evil spores from outer space.

      BUT...where have you ever seen Paul Frees on camera before? I didn't see his name in the credits, but when Prof. Pommer started talking, I shouted, "That's Paul Frees!" Here's a man with hundreds of credits (and many uncredited roles) but they've almost always been for his voice. Even in this pic, he also "appears" as the announcer voice in the bus station. Space Master X-7 gives him a good reel or more almost by himself, as a scientist attempting to figure out what the virus is. He's not matinée idol material, but the film shows that he could act with more than his lungs.

      AND...a couple of scenes with Moe Howard, down on his luck between the demise of Columbia's short film division, and the amazing comeback of the Stooges in the early 60s. When I saw the names Bernds and Maurer in the credits, I almost wondered if the film was going to be a parody, since they're the pair that did most of the Stooges' 60s features. Maurer kindly gave his father-in-law Moe a decent part as a cabby who helps police find the missing (spore-infected) woman.

      It was fun to find this film on TV, since it had disappeared for decades. For fans of SF schlock, it's a must. But definitely for fans of Moe and Paul (Boris Badenov) Frees!
      dougdoepke

      I Guess We Won't Marinate this Mushroom

      Space fungus menaces planet earth. Okay, everything else was menacing the besieged 1950's planet, so why not a creepy fungus. Well, it's actually a bloody slime from outer space that spreads like a dirty carpet, and unless trackers can catch up with the shapely blonde Typhoid Mary (Thomas) carrying it, we're all one big toadstool. I'm trying hard, but I just don't recall this epic from 1958, and I rarely missed one of these drive-in specials. According to IMDb, TCF didn't syndicate the film, which is why, I guess, it's gone unseen for 50 years.

      Actually, the movie's pretty well produced for its kind. The location shots lend at least some credibility to the wacky plot. And catch those early versions of protective Hazmat suits in the train yard scene. Williams and Ellis do well as the bloodhounds, but why Ellis remains a lowly Pfc with his officer-level credentials seems odd. Also, I really like the unheralded Lyn Thomas as the nervous blonde.

      Note that brilliant screenwriter Dan Mainwaring, e.g. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Out of the Past (1947), collaborated on the screenplay. I'm guessing that promising trapped-in-the-airliner concept came from him. Too bad the full potential of those scenes is not realized by director Bernds. At the same time, the movie ends all-too-abruptly, as though the production suddenly ran out of money. I get the feeling that with better backing and a more perceptive director, this drive-in programmer could have turned into an uptown smash on the order of Alien (1980).
      8vawlkee_2000

      A solid "B" but better than I expected.

      Better than it had a right to be! The premise was good, the screenplay was good, even the acting and direction were good. When I was in grammar school, the film was re-released about 1960 and several of my schoolmates kept referring to the "blood rust", some calling it "blood lust" and telling me about the film, I was jealous! I figured it was some sort of zany shocker but never *sighs* got to see it on the big screen. 2009 rolls around and The Fox Movie Channel runs it and at long last I get to see it......Quite good! I have to admit that I was disappointed only because it was such a literate and well handled film and not something akin to a Corman flick. Paul Frees, one of the most overused voices in H'wood gives an amazingly solid performance as an obsessed scientist. I also like the stock music tracks used as well...I picked up several composers in the mix, not the least was Victor Lazslo. Too slick for it's own good! As a child I would have been bored, but not now.....

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      • Anecdotes
        Moe Howard: , of The Three Stooges fame, as a cab driver. Production assistant Norman Maurer was Moe's son-in-law, and director Edward Bernds was a longtime friend and had directed many Three Stooges shorts and several of their features. Moe found himself out of work after more than 25 years when Columbia Pictures closed its Shorts department with no notice early in 1958. Bernds offered Moe the cab driver part, and Moe in turn asked him to take on hire Maurer, who was trying to get a foothold in the film business. Bernds knew Maurer and considered him to be a talented artist, so he hired him as a sketch artists to help the special-effects department.
      • Gaffes
        Laura moves the TV unit in the hotel room a bit when she turns it off, but the picture on the TV doesn't move at all, as it was inserted afterward.
      • Citations

        Pvt. Joe Rattigan: [to the stewardess] Are there any other brunettes on this flight wearing tweed coarts?

      • Connexions
        Featured in Aweful Movies with Deadly Earnest: Space Master X-7 (1966)
      • Bandes originales
        Atomic Age
        (uncredited)

        Music by Louis De Francesco

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      • Date de sortie
        • 21 avril 1960 (Mexique)
      • Pays d’origine
        • États-Unis
      • Langue
        • Anglais
      • Aussi connu sous le nom de
        • X-7 rey del espacio
      • Lieux de tournage
        • Union Station - 800 N. Alameda Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, Californie, États-Unis(interiors and exteriors of station)
      • Société de production
        • Regal Films
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      • Budget
        • 125 000 $US (estimé)
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      • Durée
        • 1h 11min(71 min)
      • Couleur
        • Black and White
      • Mixage
        • Mono
      • Rapport de forme
        • 2.35 : 1

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