La Planète des hommes perdus

Original title: Il pianeta degli uomini spenti

1961
Approved
1h 37m

IMDb RATING

4.3/10

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A runaway asteroid dubbed "The Outsider" mysteriously begins orbiting the Earth and threatens it with lethal flying saucers.A runaway asteroid dubbed "The Outsider" mysteriously begins orbiting the Earth and threatens it with lethal flying saucers.A runaway asteroid dubbed "The Outsider" mysteriously begins orbiting the Earth and threatens it with lethal flying saucers.

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IMDb RATING

4.3/10

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Battle Of The Worlds: We've Just Established Contact

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In the US this was passed over by major distributors. It was picked up by a very minor distributor and wasn't released until 1963. As a result, it received scant bookings and remained unseen theatrically in many areas. It was popular via U.S. television syndication later in the 1960s, followed in 1986 when it was widely distributed on VHS (pan and scanned) by the bargain label Goodtimes Home Video.

Quotes
Cmdr. Robert Cole: Poor Benson. If they opened up his chest, they'd find a formula... where his heart should have been.

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Featured in Aweful Movies with Deadly Earnest: Battle of the Worlds (1972)

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momma mia, atsa somma crummy meataball!

Claude Rains stars as Prof. Benson, a cynical mathematical genius/recluse who must save the world from implacable aliens. The movie has an interesting premise - a planetoid enters into orbit around the Earth causing widespread upheavals of Nature, and turns out to be a sort of alien Noah's Ark - but is marred by a tiny budget, hambone acting (except for Rains), oafish direction, and really crummy effects even for 1961. This may not have been Rains' last film, but he certainly deserved better. Having said all that, for some odd reason this one remains a favorite. Guess there's no accounting for taste. Seriously though, there are worse. MUCH worse.