them, but not for us on Earth. If you are not terribly put off by 50's, black and white, and god forbid stop motion, you can't go wrong with this quintessential sci-fi extravaganza.

in time when comic books were 10¢. Soon after seeing this movie I was bitten by the movie bug which resulted in a lifelong passion for films and animation, which I have to credit to the intense effect that Earth Vs the Flying Saucers had on my young mind. I still watch this film several times a year and never get tired of seeing it.

Hell, even WAR OF THE PLANETS could have been better if they you. Save the B-Movie like you did the first time. Anyway, the perfect Saturday night treat for the kids. EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS gets 10 STARS!

a great story with well-organized sub-plots: efforts by the aliens to actually communicate with Earthlings, minds being taken over, aliens who want to make Earth a subservient colony, scientists and military devising weapons in a strangely short period of time , and some of those classic Ray Harrryhausen special effects that made these types of flicks so fun.Some of the stuff you see in this movie inspired a nice way to say ripped off by other movies: the trucks with ray-transmitter machines, the method of disrupting the alien spacecraft in flight, the design of the alien armor, and many more. Imitation is the sincerest form of complement, though, yet another testimony to the entertainment value and creativity this movie offers.These creatures are among the best of the malevolent space invaders that had it in for us Earthlings, especially the Earthlings who were parked at drive-ins.

revisionism is a pathetically dismissive summation of the film's content and intent. Those who subscribe to that view are laboring with a paradigm that is way past its use-by date! Sorry, Baby-Boomers - you're wrong! Now go away and try to grow up so that you don't annoy your children and grandkids any more than you annoyed your parents. Earth Vs The Flying Saucers is one of the first intelligent cinematic considerations of what might be "out there" and what we might be challenged by. And that's its intent, by the way. The effects by Ray Harryhausen are, for its day, 1st class. The music, appropriately jarring and eerie. The script and acting are serviceable to its intent and its audience - the average popcorn eating, tax-paying American. If you expect this film to be some Spielberg critique of how rotten White Western culture is and how noble and ever-so-much-better anything NON White Western Christian male is, then... don't watch it. It'll just annoy you.

Barron" in one of the final Flash Gordon serials appear in the film. However, the wonderful and voluptuous Joan Taylor also appears as Carol Marvin Hugh Marlowe's new bride in the film . Now, Ms. Taylor also appeared as the medical student granddaughter ? of a scientist in another 1950s sci-fi flick, "20 Million Miles to Earth." And, I MUST say that Ms. Taylor looked terrific in those shorts of hers, as she and her granddad were conducting scientific research in sunny Sicily, when that U.S. space ship returned, rather abruptly, to Earth. Seeing her perambulate through the verdant Sicilian countryside, I felt like singing Dean Martin's "That's Amore!" Yet, my favorite scene in "Earth Versus the Flying Saucers," was at the film's conclusion, when, Ms. Taylor and Mr. Marlowe are sitting on a beautiful beach as the sun is starting to set, and she says to Mr. Marlowe: "Do you think that the aliens will ever return to Earth?" To which, Mr. Marlowe looking at his beautiful bride, attired in her extremely-flattering one-piece bathing suit dreamily replies: "Not on such a beautiful day as this." And, hands held-together, they both happily and somewhat, "saucily" scamper into the water!

are ONCE AGAIN evil and bent on destroying mankind, but the way the film is intelligently written and executed make this a worthwhile picture. For the 1950s, it was a heck of a film and still holds up well today.By the way, at the half hour mark, there is a scene supposedly along the Chesapeake Bay. I grew up just a few miles from there and was surprised to see all the mountains! Obviously this was shot in California and it looked almost nothing like the Bay.

the screenplay. Special effects legend Ray Harryhausen supervised the effects and Josh Westmoreland, a sound veteran of westerns and monster movies, provided the sound. B-movie director Fred F. Sears and B-movie cinematographer Fred Jackman Jr. put it all together on the screen. In what would be a foreboding of things to come on 9/11 American monuments are under attack and destroyed. Aliens from a dying planet come to earth to claim it as their own but earth fights back. Hugh Marlow and Joan Taylor star. It's campy but it's still a good flick and a good representative of it's era and genre and I would give it an 8.0 out of 10.