qmtv Boring, slow, Cheap, Background Movie, Like Background Music Decent acting, but still boring. Characters suck. Story goes nowhere. Can't remember the music. The sets were cheap. It's like watching a background movie, very boring, like listening to background music. Not recommended.Boring, slow, Cheap, Background Movie, Like Background Music Decent acting, but still boring. Characters suck. Story goes nowhere. Can't remember the music. The sets were cheap. It's like watching a background movie, very boring, like listening to background music. Not recommended.

dbdumonteil Stephen Spielberg claimed Ulmer's movie's influence for his celebrated E.T. Enid and her father's surname is Elliot and the young hero of the eighties blockbuster is none other than Elliott.Coincidence? Made on a shoestring budget in six days in the settings of a movie telling the story of France's most famous heroine,"man from planet X" does predate E.T.; more than 30 years before ,the message is the same :in 1951,Ulmer broke with old habits that made the creatures from outer space scary monsters Our X man is alone,he is afraid,his face is some kind of inscrutable mask (or some kind of Pinocchio-like puppet or some kind of wistful clown);they did not have Carlo Rambaldi's technical abilities,then).The human beings (or at least Mears and the military men) are considered the bandits or the Indians in bad westerns ;the hero and miss Elliot play the same part as Elliott,but unlike SS,no happy end here.Geometry (and maths in general) could have been an ideal way to communicate;in " Contact" ,"they " used the prime numbers).Enid's last line hints at a missed opportunity.

Claudio Carvalho The reporter John Lawrence (Robert Clarke) visits Dr. Robert Blane (Gilbert Fallman) and learns that his friend, Prof. Elliot (Raymond Bond) has discovered a new planet that is in route toward Earth and has moved to an observatory on the Burry Island to observe from a closer location. John heads to the Scottish island and is welcomed by Prof. Elliot's daughter Enid Elliot (Margaret Field), who is now a beautiful young woman. They go to the observatory to meet Prof. Elliot and John finds Dr. Mears (William Schallert), who is his disaffection. When Enid returns home after driving John to an inn in the town, she has a flat tire and finds a spacecraft landed on the island with a weird alien inside that follows her home. While Prof. Elliot and John want to investigate the reason why the alien landed on Earth, Dr. Mears has second thoughts. What are the true intentions of the extraterrestrial being?"The Man from Planet X" is a campy and lame sci-fi in black and white, but also a cult for fans (like me) of sci-fi from the 50's. The story of a close encounter with an alien is from the same year of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" that is a classic. The open end, where the true intention of the extraterrestrial being is not disclosed, is excellent. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): Not available on Blu-Ray or DVD

poe426 THE MAN FROM PLANET X has a lot going for it, not the least of which is an interesting premise: an alien from a dying world arrives on Earth (just ahead of the aforementioned dying world itself, which has been steered toward Earth), ostensibly to colonize this planet. His intentions may have been peaceful, but William Schallert as the greedy businessman "Mears" undermines any such peaceful intentions by capturing and torturing the alien. (Two years later, IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE would use basically the same premise, although it would forego the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld approach.) Writer-director Ulmer makes the most of what little he has, shrouding the action and miniatures in mist and setting scenes at night (the old double-whammy of low-budget filmmaking). The alien himself isn't half bad, either (he definitely doesn't look Human), but his little ship is truly outstanding for such an obviously low-rent venture. At one point, a constable complains to reporter Lawrence: "You take the taste of the tea right out of my mouth." But it's Lawrence who delivers the best line of the movie when he tells his woman that it's best not to tell the world about the attempted invasion: "Knowledge would only bring more fear in a world already filled with it." Don't we know it...