Looking everybit of 65, died 14 years after this drivel was shot. Can you imagine if anyone looked this bad at 43 today? No wonder they call 45 the new 30.
Birch died in 1969 like I said, probably of embarrassment over this film. About the only tidbit it has going for it, Forrest Ackerman of Famous Monsters of Filmland fame, was a prop man working the strings of the space noodle. Don't expect this one to give 2012 a run for its money. It's DOA against just about anything on celluloid.
I can't blame MGM that tried to capitalize on the movie monster craze with no capital, $10 effects and less put into the script, but Corman did this better with just as little money and left over film from a previous shoot. Sam Z.ARKOFF makes Ed Wood look like Cecil B DeMille. I told my cousin I was saving my 35 cents when he asked if I wanted to go to see this movie in 1955. Sometimes you just smell disaster, even in the days before you read critics.
I have a feeling this freak show never made it to Mystery Science Theatre 3000 because, there isn't enough to hang either mystery, science, or anything else on. I don't even remember Zacherle doing this trash on WOR.
Of course, memory fails. Just like this movie.
You have to watch past the low budget effects, and you can appreciate it a lot more from a psychological point of view.At the very end, the wife said: "What killed the creative in the ship?"The husband answers with more questions:
-"Where did the eagle come from? Why do humans have souls?Then the wife said:
-"If I could answer that, I would be more than human. I would be ... "Yes" Confirms the husband. :)The silent answer to that was, You would be a God. What killed the creature was Love against Hate & Fear. The cure for humanity is Unity/Solidarity.All this is Quantum Physics, Religion 101, Mind Control 101, Psychology 101 Human Evolution all in one ...This was a one of a kind movie.PS. I also loved how no animals were hurt in this movie, not even the rat. LoL.Rå ///