STRANGER FROM VENUS
1954

STRANGER FROM VENUS shares many common elements with the all-time classic THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (with Patricia Neal reprising her previous role). It also shares a basic plot structure with the British sci-fi flick DEVIL GIRL FROM MARS which was made the same year. If you've seen and enjoyed either film, you'll like this one. Like Devil Girl From Mars, special effects are largly ignored and instead what we get is mature dialogue and competent acting to deliver the time-honored theme that humankind has a lot to learn on the intergalactic scale of civilized behaviour.

PLOT:
A stranger from Venus arrives in a rural English town, possessing awesome powers, and intending only to inform the military powers-that-be of the dangers of atomic weapons. A local American woman understands, accepts, and quietly falls in love with the nameless alien. However, the military hawks don't see things the same way and try to prevent the Venusian's rendezvous with his mother ship...

CAST:
Patricia Neal ... Susan North
Helmut Dantine ... The Stranger
Derek Bond ... Arthur Walker
Cyril Luckham ... Dr. Meinard
Willoughby Gray ... Tom Harding
Marigold Russell ... Gretchen Harding
Arthur Young ... Scientist
Kenneth Edwards ... Charles Dixon
David Garth ... First Police Officer
Stanley Van Beers ... General
Nigel Green ... Second Police Officer
Graham Stuart ... Police Chief Richards

Directed by Burt Balaban

RUNNING TIME: 75 MIN