This Island Earth (1955)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:7
Rotten:4
Average Rating:5/10
Runtime: 86 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: A team of top nuclear scientists is assembled by the mysterious Exeter at a high-tech laboratory in Georgia. His mission, kept secret even from the researchers, is to develop new sources of atomic... [More]
Starring: Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue, Rex Reason, Russell Johnson
Director: Joseph M. Newman
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Reviews for This Island Earth
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...even though its increasingly camp elements have aged poorly, it deserves respect as one of the more ambitious, grandiose, and important science fiction adventures of its time. Full Review |
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Pretty impressive sci-fi for 1955, a near classic.
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Eye-filling sci-fi, although it's even better as the basis of 'MST3K: The Movie'
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Slower-moving than it needs to be, but hardly the object of scorn MST3K would have us believe
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An appalling film, but good fodder for the mocking in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie"
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Inexplicably well-regarded, as ludicrous and simple-minded as they come
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Big budget, elaborate sci-fi. Nice to look at, but rather slow.
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