Not of This Earth (1957 film)
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Not of This Earth | |
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Movie Poster from 1957 |
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Directed by | Roger Corman |
Produced by | Roger Corman |
Written by | Charles B. Griffith Mark Hanna |
Starring | Paul Birch Beverly Garland Morgan Jones |
Music by | Ronald Stein |
Cinematography | John J. Mescall |
Editing by | Charles Gross |
Distributed by | Allied Artists |
Release date(s) | February 10, 1957 |
Running time | 67 min |
Language | English |
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Not Of This Earth was a 67-minute, 1957 American black-and-white science fiction film co-written by Charles B. Griffith and Mark Hanna and produced and directed by Roger Corman via Los Altos Productions, on contract for distribution by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation.
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The film starred Paul Birch, Beverly Garland, Morgan Jones and William Roerick in a story about a humanoid agent, transported to Earth from the fictional planet Davanna, where a blood-degenerating plague is killing the populace. His mission is to find compatible blood in Earth humans to send back to his home planet for transfusion purposes; to achieve his ends, he is empowered by death-ray emitting eyes and a nightmarish flying octopus-like creature with vampiric capabilities.
The film was released in the USA on the bottom half of a programmed double bill with Attack of the Crab Monsters. It was later remade into a 1988 film starring Traci Lords and a 1995 film starring Michael York.