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ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

dbdumonteil Stephen Spielberg claimed Ulmer's movie's influence for his celebrated E.T. Enid and her father's surname is Elliot and the young hero of the eighties blockbuster is none other than Elliott.Coincidence? Made on a shoestring budget in six days in the settings of a movie telling the story of France's most famous heroine,"man from planet X" does predate E.T.; more than 30 years before ,the message is the same :in 1951,Ulmer broke with old habits that made the creatures from outer space scary monsters Our X man is alone,he is afraid,his face is some kind of inscrutable mask (or some kind of Pinocchio-like puppet or some kind of wistful clown);they did not have Carlo Rambaldi's technical abilities,then).The human beings (or at least Mears and the military men) are considered the bandits or the Indians in bad westerns ;the hero and miss Elliot play the same part as Elliott,but unlike SS,no happy end here.Geometry (and maths in general) could have been an ideal way to communicate;in " Contact" ,"they " used the prime numbers).Enid's last line hints at a missed opportunity.

Michael_Elliott The Man From Planet X (1951) ** (out of 4) Early invasion film from director Edgar G. Ulmer is somewhat better than it probably should be but it's certainly no classic. A Scottish community is shaken when a UFO lands and a weird looking alien is found. It seems the alien comes in peace but no one is certain why he's there and things take a turn when one scientist goes to abuse him for knowledge. THE MAN FROM PLANET X suffers from a very low-budget that doesn't allow it to do much but as is usually the case, the director manages to add a little more style thanks to some creativity. I think the best thing about the film is the actual look of the picture. The setting is a very small town and I thought Ulmer managed to build up a nice atmosphere. The fog machine he bought was obviously extremely good as there's all sorts of thick fog running throughout the film. I thought this helped give it a pretty good look but of course it also covers up some of the limitations of the budget. The actual alien is hotly debated among sci-fi fans but I personally liked it. Yes, it looks cheap but at the same time the motion-less face was actually quite creepy and there's no question that it's original looking. I also enjoyed the cast with Robert Clarke doing a nice job in the lead. He was in several of these low budget movies and I've always enjoyed him as an actor. Margaret Field, Raymond Bond and William Schallert are good as well. The biggest problem is that there's really not too much that happens. The majority of the film is taken up with dialogue with people talking about everything that's happening instead of the viewer actually seeing very much of it. This was often the case with films like this and thankfully this here only runs 70-minutes. THE MAN FROM PLANET X isn't a classic by any stretch of the imagination but fans of the genre should get a few kicks out of it.

Scott LeBrun "The Man from Planet X" is routine overall, but it has a reasonably interesting concept - that of a wandering planet that has left its orbit - and has enough heavy atmosphere to make it an entertaining view. Said planet will come closest to Earth around the area of an island off the Scottish coast. Soon the locals realize that a representative of an alien intelligence has landed. The amusing looking creature seems to be harmless at first, but when ambitious and greedy scientist Dr. Mears (the solid veteran character actor William Schallert) starts bullying the creature into giving him information, it changes its mind and gets hostile, turning Mears and others into zombie slaves. It's up to intrepid American reporter John Lawrence (Robert Clarke) to figure out a way to stop an invasion from taking place, and to get word to the authorities.B movie perennials Clarke and director Edgar G. Ulmer are in fine form here; Ulmer did a fine job of working his way around the low, low budgets of his films. Here he has the crew add fog to the sets of the Ingrid Bergman film "Joan of Arc" to create an eerie feel. There's a minimum of characters until the climax when citizens are mobilized against the menace; until then there's a rather intimate feel to the proceedings, and the pacing is deliberate, with a focus on mood and feel rather than action.The acting is sincere from all concerned, with Clarke a likable, low key leading man, and lovely Margaret Field (mother of Sally Field) an appealing leading lady. Schallert is malevolent fun as the self centered Mears; other nice characterizations are by Raymond Bond as eminent scientist Professor Elliot and Roy Engel as Tommy the Constable. Clocking in at a trim 71 minutes, "The Man from Planet X", written and produced by Aubrey Wisberg and Jack Pollexfen, is a good if not great little film worth a look for genre buffs.Seven out of 10.

sol (Some Spoilers) It's when famed Scottish Astrology Professor Elliot,Raymond Bond,spotted this heavenly body heading straight towards earth that he got in touch with his good friend back in WWII days American reporter John Lawrence, Robert Clarke, to get the first rights on breaking to the world this earth shaking story.Showing up at the dinky and fog covered town of Burry in Northern Scotland Lawrence is shocked to find that Prof. Elliot's assistant is the sleazy unscrupulous as well as brilliant Dr. Mears, William Schallert, who was just released from prison. To balance things out there's also the professor's daughter Enid played by Margaret Fields, actress Sally Fields mom, who's had a crush on the handsome American when she was a little girl back in war torn WWII England.As the brilliant professor Eillot calculated the heavenly body-that he named Planet X-that he's been tracking for the last two or three days is due to hit the earth on the evening of September 17,1950 just three days hence! And the the place it's to collied with on earth is no less then Burry Scotland! The very place where he and Enid make their home!Checking out the moors outside of Burry Lawrence and Enid spot this landing craft stuck in the soft fog covered earth. Later this alien the Man from Planet X, known as the X-Man in sci-fi lingo, played by midget actor Pat Goldin unexpectedly pop up out of the craft. Looking like the famous Tin-Man in "The Wizard of Oz" the X-Man suddenly suddenly go into convulsions in that his air,or whatever he's breathing, supply gets jammed in his space suite. With Lawrence and Professor Elliot helping the X-Man back to his feet he seems to become friendly to the earthlings whom he owes his life to. It's only when he's brought to Professor Eillot's home and greedy and rotten Dr.Mears begins to work the defenseless X-Man over to find the secret of his or fellow X-Mens ability to travel through space and build spaceships to do it with that he turns violent! Escaping from the Elliot house the X-Man uses his ray gun to turn the people of Burry into mind-controlled zombies and do the bidding of him and fellow X-Men who are planning to take over the earth and, in their planet about to become instinct of life, make it their home away home.***SPOILERS*** In order top prevent the X-Men from taking over the earth the local British National Guard is called in by Lawrence and Burry's Constable Tommy(Ron Engel), two of few men in town who weren't zombafied, in order to put an end to their plans. With Lawrence de-zombafying those already zombafied by the X-Man in getting the mind controlled population of Burry, that includes both Professor Elliot and Dr. Mears, back to normal it's now up to the British Army to put an end of this planned alien invasion of the earth by blasting the X-Man and his spacecraft to kingdom come! That's before he can set the stage for his fellow X-Men to launch their full scale invasion, D-Day style, of the planet earth. And the one person, or earthling, who's against that happening is non-other then Dr.Mears! As it turns out that besides him being a lowlife and rat faced bottom feeder, in getting information that would make him rich & famous from the X-Man, he's also a traitor to not only his country but his fellow earthlings! And like the traitor that Dr. Mears is he ends up getting exactly what he deserves! By him getting blasted by a squad of British Army bazooka men as he makes a run for it back to the X-Man's soon to be pulverized,together with the X-Man, spacecraft!