Also known as ...4 ...3 ...2 ...1 ...morte
Starring Lang Jeffries
Movie theme is a trippie, hippyish song, set to psychadelic colors.
During one important scene about 13 minutes in, I missed much of the expositional dialog because I couldn't stop laughing at the extra in the background leaping around like a freak and shadow boxing
The bad guy is pretty easy to spot early on. In 'B' Movies, one of the give-aways is wealth. Like the Democratic party, movie makers in the 50's and 60's typically believed that anybody with any measure of success must have gotten there by some illegal means, and therefore cannot be trusted. The wealthy guy must have some interest in the mission.
The 'aliens' of this movie are disappointing. It seems Mission Stardust falls into the Rocketship XM trap, and gives us regular humans saying, "Trust me-I'm from another world."
It seems the main alien...
Movie theme is a trippie, hippyish song, set to psychadelic colors.
During one important scene about 13 minutes in, I missed much of the expositional dialog because I couldn't stop laughing at the extra in the background leaping around like a freak and shadow boxing
The bad guy is pretty easy to spot early on. In 'B' Movies, one of the give-aways is wealth. Like the Democratic party, movie makers in the 50's and 60's typically believed that anybody with any measure of success must have gotten there by some illegal means, and therefore cannot be trusted. The wealthy guy must have some interest in the mission.
The 'aliens' of this movie are disappointing. It seems Mission Stardust falls into the Rocketship XM trap, and gives us regular humans saying, "Trust me-I'm from another world."
It seems the main alien...
Wait, at least his name is something cool and Alien-esque, like Xandar?
...whose name is even a regular human name - Chris - is sick...
So, he has a cool Alien-esque disease, right? Like Andorian Shingles?
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...with plain ole' Leukemia. The astronauts' mission is now to travel back to Earth with the aliens and find a famous doctor with a convenient serum for this disease.
The bottom line is this movie is merely ok. The visuals are nice for the technology of the day, the alien characters are blah, and the acting non-existent. I've measured the entertainment value using my Calcinator Ray, and it says if you watch this, your death will be INDESCRIBABLE. Well, maybe that's overkill, but look, you can watch it if you want, but I'd skip it. Final Verdict: 1 1/2 out of 4.
Didja Know?
Jeffries was supposedly one of only three survivors out of an Army unit of 177 who, during the Korean War, landed in Inchon, though I can't confirm this.
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