Stars: Peter Graves, James Seay, Steve Pendleton Director: W. Lee Wilder A scientist monitoring atomic tests, killed in a plane crash, is revived by aliens so he can spy on the tests and help them conquer the world.
Many years ago, my local TV station played SF and horror movies every Friday night. Unfortunately I had to leave for work halfway through each movie. This was before video recorders, so my sister would watch the movie and explain what happened when I got home from work. Now at last I get to see the end of the movie !!
Sounds like me. Back in the 60s we’d have to change the direction of the antenna to pick up a Joplin Missouri UHF station for their weekend creature feature
@@ianmangham4570 I returned the favor later; she had to go away for six weeks so I took notes on DALLAS each week so she would be up to date with the plot when she returned!
ahh, the “olde” days. so glad your sister was able to fill you in. i’m glad to so easily see movies without local *commercials!! :) (*i have Premium. it really pays to have it :)
For sure. I saw this when it first came out, and when I was 10 years old. My friends and I thought it was a LOW-budget sci-fi flick. If we had had movie cameras back then, the bunch of us could have done something at least as good.
@@leelarson107 Okay, I'll take a look! This must have been before he had to worry about catching messages before they self-destructed in 5 seconds! Stressful profession!☺
Love this movie. Anytime a top level clearance holder suffers amnesia, he's deemed a security risk until further notice. I think that is why soldiers and POWs have to undergo debriefing. Of course, filmmakers don't have to stick to the real rules, but in this case, they kept to that one and it makes for a compelling story.
--And apparently the entire power generating station is flying in the air when the "Baker" Bikini Atoll test shot doubles as the explosion of the Astron underground base. Maybe the generating station (in one piece) was also hurled into the air (in the middle of the Pacific Ocean)! That's how they were able to see the spectacle from high above through the window at the station.
I watch anything with Peter Graves in it. A big fan since Fury back when I was a kid. Of course Mission: Impossible after Steven Hill (another favorite). I didn't expect much here, and I wasn't disappointed. Lol. Fun!
Brothers Peter Graves and James Arness were all over sci-fi movies in the early 50's. Combatting Giant Ants and Spiders in the desert to "Alien Beings" in and from "Outer Space" to under the Artic. What a blast watching these old movies that I watched during my early adolescent years on late night Fri. and Sat. "Horror Movies" in the early, early 60's. (my first memories began in '62 when I was 12) 🕙🚀🛸🌙
And don't forget Clint Eastwood. Clint Eastwood is the voice in the jet bombing and then napalming the tarantula in The Tarantula. And had a bout a 2 minute bit in the second movie of tge creature from the black lagoon. He was a lab assistant that misplaced a lab rat until he found it in the pocket of his lab coat. Lol.
Heavens to Murgatroyd ! I had never even heard of this low budget independently produced 50s sci fi feature till reading about it recently in the book "Killing John Wayne". It's mostly about the production of the Howard Hughes-produced epic "The Conqueror" but had a lot to say about his RKO studio during the 50s & the many other films it either produced or released in the 1950s. Thanks for uploading the whole movie for us to enjoy ! Always liked the late great Peter Graves.
I grew up in Hollywood and I believe that is the Bronson Caves. Batman tv shows were also filmed up in those caves. They are basically just a few tunnels in rock and it always cracks me up to see the film go back and forth through these small tunnels.
AT 1:07:50 Graves is holding the guy at bay while he holds the barrell of the gun. Corrects it in the next cut. Also, love the escape attempt in the caves...he runs past the same rock formation all the tme! :)
Thank you. Thank you all. The commentary is extremely entertaining. I always read it before the films if I can't find out anything about them elsewhere. Kisses!
@@carycoller3140 I saw it in the early 1960s and thought it was frightening. "The Thing" of 1979 was a stupendous movie, as well. Both very good in my estimation.
Pretty suspenseful for a B movie. A young Peter Graves (as in IT CONQUERED THE WORLD) looking good as the hero. "To much wasted time in the caves though". (ls)
Always interesting to watch actors play against rear projected animals and try to make it look like the animals are reacting to them as opposed to the other way around.
Great sci-if I first saw as a teen in the 1960s and about 8 times since. Scared the shit out me and still does! Peter Graves did Stalag 17 right after this. Frank Gerstel(Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up), Shep Menken, Ben Welden all appeared also on I Love Lucy.
In one television biography, Graves said he had no problem doing films like this one, because those were what paid the bills while he was waiting to get work in better productions.
Ha! I was six years old when this was released. Peter Graves brother, James Arness captured the Saturday night TV views with his portrayal of Marshal Dillon in the popular series Gun Smoke.
@@mikedrown2721 we boomers thought we'd never get old. However, I think today's young people are "older" than we were at their age. At least boomer children were able to be OUTSIDE and ride BIKES not getting FAT DID you know, there are millennials and younger, with type 2 diabetes😞😖
I remember this film from my youth when it was on TV and Chiller Theater in NY. I don't know what it was but those aliens creeped me out. Solid B film. Love this stuff.
CGI got nuthin on these 1950 and 1960’s campy sci-fi movies, we used our minds to fill in the blanks, while nowadays it’s just overwhelm the visual and no one will notice that there was never a story there, now set up the sequel! Second verse same as the first right?
Howdy...I actually have 3 red, white and blue "I Like Ike" buttons...my dad gave them to me in 1956...just saying...and yes, the portrait of Ike is nice..
Great old B movie. These are awesome and even though made on a small budget and all the various limitations that brings, the acting and direction is almost always superior to the trash Hollyweird coughs up these days. Couldn't help but notice the sweet Coke machine at about 1:00:30, I want one! LOL Thanks for posting this one!
Year ago, double features were the norm at movie theaters back then; the 2nd movie was always done with a minimum budget. We use to stay at the movie theater all afternoon, watching these movies over and over at only the initial cost. Those were the good old days.
Fun movie! I love these old things. But did anyone notice the same thing I did? The title is Killers from Space. It should have been called ineffective Killers from Space; no one got killed! LOL
This film was shown about once every three weeks on "Chiller Theater" on Saturday night in New York in the late 1950's, when I was a kid. I must have seen it about 25 times.
A member of my old Oxford college ended his acting career in sci-fi pictures as hokey as this, also wearing ping-pong-ball/egg-carton eyes in one of them. His alcoholism and homosexuality helped his decline from starring-roles in late-'40s flicks into utter junk by the mid-'60s..
@@judyshaw6887 yes, but THEM , 1954 is not the film he was thinking of, THEM is my favorite 50s scifi movie, with Edmond Gwenn and James Whitmore. Peter Graves in 1957 starred in The Beginning of the End, about giant grasshoppers invading Chicago, also starring beautiful Peggy Castle.
You know how when you were a kid, you watched movies you thought were really scary and then when you grow up, you watch them again and say "How could I possibly have found that film scary -- it's just ridiculous!" You know those films? WELL, THIS WASN'T ONE OF THEM!!! Even when I was a kid, some 50 years ago, watching "Chiller Theater" on WPIX in New York, and they would play this one at least once a month, I knew that this was a total clunker. The only thing that saves it is Peter Graves -- even then he really was a great actor. Thank goodness for him that he graduated from films like this to "A" roles in film and television and even did a splendid turn at comedy in the "Airplane" films.
I love old scifi movies. My mom and I we would watch after 9 pm. After the movies it was timed for bed. I am thankful that you tube puts them on. I was born in 1954 and started watching them in the 1960's.
I think nearly every local television station in a medium to large market had a provision for featuring (on Saturday night, of course) old science fiction movies under some crazy pretense or sponsor. KMTV in our area had such a program and watched it reliably for many years when it was on in the early to mid-1960s. My favorite sci fi movies were the British ones. They had some real unique talents and stories. Wish I could see some of those again.
imagination is a wonderful thing and having less is more as in this fantastic scifi from the 50's not a lot of money but good production value's one favorites from the Chiller theather days
Some of Marty Feldman's earliest roles like 41:34 were his best. That bloke cracks me up. Abby Normal. Tell me Xorx has your species ever been to a Turkish bath ?
~ 0.16 seconds into the beginning of the movie... Is that an early prototype B-52 (aka 747) with 6 engines?? Note the 2 extra engines strapped to the fuselage - a 6-engine bomber! Pretty neat.
@brianhanley1903 You might be right, except that, according to early jet sites, B-47s had their 3rd pod of engines further out toward the wing tip. And they were relatively small. It seems that having the larger engines strapped directly to the fuselage would contribute more to stability and bomb/people carrying capacity.
Killers from Space (1954) PETER GRAVES. No, I can't legislate for the use abuse of animals in films. maybe humane society should stipulate no use of animals in any movies? what with special effects, I feel that's reasonable approach. Harryhausen supposedly felt same - that dpevisl effects should be employed....
This movie has me giddy. Love the stock footage of the bombers and, of course, Peter Graves. YUMMY I've been laughing the whole time because the main alien looks exactly like Dan Hedaya, the actor from Cheers who played Carla's ex-husband, Nick Tortelli.
IT CONQUERED THE CHEESEY KILLERS FROM OUTER SPACE. What's your vector Victor, because this recording will self destruct in ten seconds. I'm so fond of these early B-movies. "We've accumulated one billion electron volts", ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. The sodium amytal inhibits all imagination, , , , , , , , , ,now we know what the director was mainlining.
Information: Killers from Space is a Horror-Sci-fi Classic movie. Developed and Published by Jaleco. It runs on their Mega System-1 hardware in Early summer of 1992. The sound chip is reused the one YM2151 and two MSM6295. Ported to Super Famicom exclusively in Japan in 1994.
Love these movies from the '50's and early '60's. Real dhame that now-a-days they consider a great sci-fi movie as anything with zombies. And not one of them even comes close to The Night of the Living Dead.
Best bits : Aeroplane special effects. Joke shop eyeballs. Giant creatures. Nuclear explosions. Aliens invasion plan. Aliens explaining their invasion plan and confirming how it can be stopped.
They borrowed that phrase for radar "eyes that never sleep" from the classic "Phantom from Space" . . . Great narration in that one . . Made one year earlier in 1953
I love the way smoking is so common in the older.movies. you meet someone new and the first thing offered: would you like a cigarette? Black and white Movies are so much better than most 'technicolir'--just my opinion
The 1950s were the dawning of the space age and the nuclear age so, of course, everyone was paranoid about these subjects. Fertile ground for movies such as this and so many others. I saw many of these as a kid and love them now.
