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The Beast with a Million Eyes (1955)
Directors: David Kramarsky, Roger Corman
Writer: Tom Filer(screenplay)
Cast: Paul Birch, Lorna Thayer, Dona Cole, Dick Sargent
Genre: B-budget Sci-Fi Monster movie
The Beast with a Million Eyes (1955)
Directors: David Kramarsky, Roger Corman
Writer: Tom Filer(screenplay)
Cast: Paul Birch, Lorna Thayer, Dona Cole, Dick Sargent
Genre: B-budget Sci-Fi Monster movie
"A dysfunctional family operating an isolated date farm in the California desert is threatened by the arrival of an extra-terrestrial."
An early Roger Corman produced film made for the B budget movie studio, American Releasing Corporation (later to be known as American International Pictures, which specialized in low budget drive-in movies aimed at young people. The budget was so low, under $30,000 that the alien wasn't actually seen and instead we're shown a tea pot with some holes and do-dads glues onto it, for a space ship. Probably the most exciting thing about the movie is it's poster art.
What is cool, is that we see a very dysfunctional family living in near isolation on a date farm. That's right, a date farm. When is the last time you seen a date farm in a movie? The other interesting tidbit is that TV's Darin from Bewitched, Dick Sargent (the second Darin) makes an appearance as the towns young deputy.
Despite a tiny, tiny movie budget, and actors who were non-union and couldn't really act, the movie still has the usual Corman hook that keeps the viewer interested, thanks to it's quirkiness.
Oh, one more interesting note, this shows birds attacking with an intelligence, and predates Hitch's The Birds by 8 years.
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What is cool, is that we see a very dysfunctional family living in near isolation on a date farm. That's right, a date farm. When is the last time you seen a date farm in a movie? The other interesting tidbit is that TV's Darin from Bewitched, Dick Sargent (the second Darin) makes an appearance as the towns young deputy.
Despite a tiny, tiny movie budget, and actors who were non-union and couldn't really act, the movie still has the usual Corman hook that keeps the viewer interested, thanks to it's quirkiness.
Oh, one more interesting note, this shows birds attacking with an intelligence, and predates Hitch's The Birds by 8 years.
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