The Flying Saucer * (1950, Mikel Conrad, Pat Garrison, Virginia Hewitt) – Classic Movie Review 3759

‘Streaking out of the unknown comes a strange new terror! ‘ In 1950, only a year after the world’s first Flying Saucer was supposedly sighted in the Washington hills, writer-producer-director Mikel Conrad came up with this, the world’s first flying saucer movie.

Mikel Conrad and Pat Garrison star as American CIA secret agents Mike Trent (Conrad) and Vee Langley (Garrison) who go to Alaska to investigate what may lie behind the world’s first flying saucer. Rooming in a hunting lodge, they sight a flying saucer and on investigating clash with Soviet KGB spies, also after the UFO secrets.

Unfortunately, The Flying Saucer is incredibly ripe, cheap, thoughtless and daft, even by the standards of low-budget Fifties sci-fi films.

Also in the cast are Virginia Hewitt, Hantz Von Teuffen, Lester Sharp, Russell Hicks, Frank Darlen, Denver Pyle, Roy Engel and Garry Owen.

It runs 89 minutes, was produced by Colonial Productions and released by Film Classics. Howard Irving Young is credited as co-writer, the cinematographer is Philip Tannura, Morris M Wein is co-producer and the score is by Darrell Calker. It was shot at the Hal Roach Studios, Washington Blvd, Culver City, California.

It is available on a Watch the Skies DVD with The Cosmic Man (1959) and Stranger from Venus (1954).

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