kathcongdrb1

This is one of my favorite "little" movies. It is better than the original "Five Came Back" and is a curiosity because of John Farrow's having directed both versions. The fact that it IS all done on a sound stage fits it perfectly, as well as the black and white. It reminds me of another of my favorites: "The Thing (From Another World)" with Kenneth Tobey. Great ensemble acting and not a word of dialog wasted. I think Robert Ryan's height helps him here; Chester Morris is on the short side. The story? Plane goes up, plane comes down. In jungle. People must get out of jungle to safety. However, there are problems with the plane and with the very unfriendly folds who live in the jungle. Kind of like an early version of "Lost."

Just two short comments - 1.: are there any friends of this show among the network's top executives and 2.: these two episodes are, I think, among the funniest, if not the funniest, episodes this comedy has produced. I laughed out loud I don't know how many times. I have even gotten my sometimes caught in the Fifties college professor husband, who is nearing 70, to like this show and he watches hardly any TV except PBS. The sight gags are, of course, great, the surprise visits to the hospital by other actors, the dialogue, the in jokes - even tho I have been saving my money to get all the sets of the original "Star Trek" and "X-Files" shows, I will have to sacrifice some of that for "Scrubs" when it makes its appearance on DVD. I have to have it all.

How can anyone not love this movie it is so awful! The girl running around the house in chiffon, the alien who obviously never attended The Actor's Studio, the secret agent who keeps pronouncing the professor's (of course there has to be a professor, this is a science fiction movie)full name as if it were his LAST name, the nurses in white in the lab acting like nothing was out of the ordinary - and above all the lead is Ralph Nader, his girl Friday is Barbara Nichols, wisecracking her way through her scenes and the boss is good ole Hugh Beaumont of "Leave It To Beaver." (Maybe he needed some extra cash.)This even has a version on MST 3000, but can stand by itself. Everyone should have a copy.