Review of Phantom from Space

This is one of those things where, given a little imagination, the producers of this movie could have made it much better. The first half is insufferable. People riding around in cars with antennas. Stopping to talk to each other. When the young woman says her husband and another man have been attacked on the beach, they sit around and chat, getting out there about fifteen minutes later. By then he had died. We also have the interrogation. One of the poor guys is all beat up and he ends up being accused. These cowboys are going to nail him. Anyway, we finally get to see the "monster" or "spaceman" as he runs all over the place. He just runs and runs and runs. He never hides. He pops out from behind things and then runs some more. It's sad for him that he is really a victim. Our cold war police force wants nothing more than to destroy him, without any effort to remedy the situation. The guy ends up looking like a fugitive from the Gumby factory. If one were to take the premise that a space creature was fighting for his existence on earth, you could make a pretty decent movie. This isn't it, I'm afraid.