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This Island Earth / Movie
List Price: $9.98 Our Price:
VHS Tape - 01 March, 1992
Universal Studios
Availability: Used and ThirdParty
Director: Jack Arnold
Number of Media: 1
Features: - Closed-captioned
- Color
- HiFi Sound
- NTSC
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| VHS Tape Description A mysterious, pilotless plane carries scientist Rex Reason to a colony of America's best and brightest minds. They've been kidnapped by a dying alien race, the Metalunians, to repair their defense shield before their enemies destroy their world completely, toiling under their spying eyes and futuristic security cameras (two-way TVs that dominate every room). Jeff Morrow, under a raised forehead, bronze tan, and snow-white hair, philosophizes as Exeter, the thoughtful Metalunian torn between his duty and his morals as he forces the plucky humans to labor in his race's defense. The moody mystery of the first half turns to pure pulp adventure when the humans are transported across the galaxy to the battle-scarred world of Metaluna, under the threatening watch of a monstrous bug-eyed monster with a giant brain for a head and massive claws for hands. There's a genuine sense of wonder to Joseph Newman's intergalactic adventure, one of the most ambitious science fiction films of the 1950s. The story is simple space opera, but the futuristic designs of glass and metal, the marvelous alien makeup, and grandstanding special effects invest the film with a Technicolor splendor. Faith Domergue co-stars as a nuclear physicist and Gilligan's Island's Russell Johnson makes his first professorial appearance as a scientist. Science fiction auteur Jack Arnold was an unbilled codirector. --Sean Axmaker |
| Selected Customer Reviews
Long Overdue for Re-Release! It's surprising to me that Image Enterainment would release a subpar version with no extra features at all and it would become a Boutique Collector's Edition at $129 - $200. Go Figure! The same thing happened to Tim Burton's ED WOOD. It was released prematurely and recalled supposedly due to Burton's objections to one of the extras. It was going for $120 - $200 until an acceptable version to Burton was finally released.
All for the low price of $185.92! Amazing! I can purchase a 12 inch figure of the Metaluna Mutant, a collectible film cel, the Making of This Island Earth book and a saucer diorama model kit for less then it would cost to purchase this film "new" on dvd. Wow!
Hello people out there in dvd land, if all these people are willing to pay some stranger $400 for a chessy 50's sci-fi flick then perhaps they'd fork over $14.99 for your version.
Just a thought.
Why Is This Movie Out of Print? This is a classic science fiction movie along the lines of Forbidden Planet and When The Worlds Collide. It was made in the 1950's and has always been a favorite with the science fiction fans. I bought my copy when it was in print and am amazed that it is no longer available. I was so impressed with the movie that I went out and found the book by Chad Oliver that it was based on and read it. (...). You would think the mental midgets in Hollywood who have little creativity and remake the same movies over and over would at least remaster this one and release it again. My brothers and I saw it when I was around 8 years old and as a result all became science fiction fans. Wake up Universal Studios! This one is a classic! |
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