Not of This Earth (1957)
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50% of users liked it
(97 ratings)
One of Roger Corman's finest science-fiction endeavors of the 1950s, Not of This Earth is an excellent film by any standards. Paul Birch stars as Johnson, a taciturn gentleman in a dark business suit who hires nurse Nadine (Beverly Garland) to care for him. Curious that Johnson needs constant… More One of Roger Corman's finest science-fiction endeavors of the 1950s, Not of This Earth is an excellent film by any standards. Paul Birch stars as Johnson, a taciturn gentleman in a dark business suit who hires nurse Nadine (Beverly Garland) to care for him. Curious that Johnson needs constant blood transfusions, Dr. Rochelle (William Roerick), Nadine's boss, discovers to his horror that Johnson has no blood of his own! Before he can make this information public, Rochelle is telepathically enslaved by the emotionless Johnson. It soon develops that Johnson is a space alien, sent from his home planet to see if the blood of earthlings can be used by his dying race -- the first step in their ultimate takeover of the world. The scenes involving hyperkinetic vacuum salesman Piper (Dick Miller) are the film's highlights, simultaneously hilarious and horrifying. Originally released on a double bill with Attack of the Crab Monsters, Not of This Earth was indifferently remade twice, in 1988 and 1996. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Roger Corman
- Written By
- Mark Hanna, Charles B. Griffith
- Genres
- Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror
PG,
- In Theaters
- Feb 10, 1957 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
The more sober-minded work, and the creepier film, thanks in large measure to Paul Birch's performance as the gent who is 'not of this Earth.'
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John Beifuss, Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Could be the most effective of Corman's non-comic pre-Poe films...
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Sean Axmaker, Parallax View
Somehow Corman makes it all work, even the purely expositional dialogue scenes.
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Cast
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Paul Birch
as Paul Johnson
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Beverly Garland
as Nadine Storey Nurse
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Morgan Jones
as Harry Sherbourne
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William Roerick
as Dr. Frederick W. Rochelle
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Jonathan Haze
as Jeremy Perrin Handyman
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Dick Miller
as Joe Piper vacuum salesman
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Roy Engel
as Sgt. Walton
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Tamar Cooper
as Joanna Oxford
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Harold Fong
as Speciman
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Gail Ganley
as Teenage girl
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Ralph Reed
as Teenage boy
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Anna Lee Carroll
as Woman of Planet Davanna
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Pat Flynn
as Officer Simmons
