The Man from Planet X (1951)

Directed by

Edgar G. Ulmer

Genre

science fiction film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 10m

Rated

12

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 84 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A humanoid alien lands on a foggy Scottish moor in a spaceship. It interacts with a small group of isolated people, and the encounter becomes increasingly strange and threatening.

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What happens

The Man from Planet X is a 1951 independently made American black-and-white science fiction horror film, produced by Jack Pollexfen and Aubrey Wisberg, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, that stars Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, and William Schallert. The film was distributed by United Artists. The story concerns a humanoid who lands on Earth in a spaceship from a mysterious planet and makes contact with a small group of humans on an isolated, fog-shrouded Scottish moor. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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