The Man from Planet X

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The Man from Planet X
Theatrical poster to The Man from Planet X (1951)
Directed by	Edgar G. Ulmer
Produced by	Jack Pollexfen Aubrey Wisberg
Written by	Aubrey Wisberg Jack Pollexfen
Starring	Robert Clarke Margaret Field
Music by	Charles Koff
Cinematography	John L. Russell
Editing by	Fred R. Feitshans Jr.
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date(s)	April 27, 1951
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
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The Man From Planet X is a 1951 science fiction film starring Robert Clarke, Margaret Field and Raymond Bond. It was directed by Edgar G. Ulmer who had directed the Bela Lugosi/Boris Karloff teamup picture "The Black Cat" in 1934. In the film, an alien visitor arrives at an observatory on the moors of Scotland. Unike most aliens from the time, the alien came to Earth asking for help to save his dieing planet. None of his pleas for help were listen to, and both him and his ship was destroyed by the military.

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• The alien can only communicate using modulated musical sounds, a concept used three decades later in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

• To save money, the director shot the entire movie on the old Ingrid Bergman Joan of Arc set, using fog to change moods and locations.

• Invaders from Mars, The War of the Worlds, and The Thing from Another World all began production around the same time this film was made.