It! The Terror from Beyond Space

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NR,1hr 8min

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Released:

January 1, 1958

Distributor:

MGM

Starring:

Marshall Thompson, Shawn Smith, Kim Spalding ... More

Synopsis: One of the best of the medium-budgeted science fiction flicks of the 1950s, It! The Terror from Beyond Space is set in "the future" (1973, to be exact). An rescue ship travels out to Mars to retrieve the only survivor of a space probe that has experienced some sort of cataclysm. That survivor, Col Ed Carruthers (Marshall Thompson) is accused of murdering his fellow crewmen. But Ed claims that the killer was a Martian monster, and hopes to prove his assertions by signing up for a second journey to ... Full Synopsis

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	Hans J. Wollstein, AMG Review The monster in It! The Terror From Beyond Space was actually former serial king Ray "Crash" Corrigan in his well-worn gorilla suit, slightly altered for the occasion by famed monster maker Paul Blaisdell. And therein lies the rub. We see all too much of It!, to the point, in fact, where a zipper is clearly visible in one shot. By the end of the film, It! is less scary than ludicrous, never mind the ... Read Review