Liked it, a lot more sensible than the blaring title. Spoiler alert, plot details, ahead, watch the film, enjoy, Talking about "The Earth Dies Screaming" 1964. And so, it does have scary dough eyed walking dead, and silver suited robot troupers, but fact is in the opening credit set up, most everyone died sleeping. Directed by Terence Fisher a master of British horror.
Fisher takes a stab at science fiction, and its not half bad. Intrepid American astronaut Jeff Nolan, played by Willard Parker, is introduced after a silent opening of Train Wrecks, Plane Wrecks, car crashes, and people lying dead in the streets. Spooky today, as back in sixty four. Is he the last man on earth alive ? No, in the first few minutes he meets Dennis Price, playing a very shifty but smooth criminal Quin Taggart. He travels with his lady, Peggy, played by Virginia Field at gunpoint.. Violet played by Vanda Godsel is the Hyper un-smart lady who travels with the good-natured when sober Edgar Otis, played by Thorley Walters, The young pregnant Lorna played by Alice Polk and her beau Mel played by David Spencer. All the Actors do a fine job, and when the script leans toward the relation side of things, it is fertile ground for interpersonal drama. On the bright side, a well produced, well scored mix. Borrowing on the theme of the last survivors on earth, in wake of worldwide everybody drops dead scenario, We have seen it before in classics like The Day of the Triffids, and Robot Monster. Given actors who can play their parts and keep it interesting, this is a worthy cast. Thats the good stuff.
On the other hand, yeah screaming ladies were par for the course; It sold the tickets and made the previews sensational, but did we need the. howling lapses of logic? The woman's roles were written with a disregard for logical survival instincts, can one be so panicky as not to lock a bolted door when being chased by a slow walking robots down the hall? I liked the film, real spoiler alert; so they knocked out the transmitter, now what happens when the mother ship comes to check things out. Seven out of Ten, "Independence day" Stars.
Fisher takes a stab at science fiction, and its not half bad. Intrepid American astronaut Jeff Nolan, played by Willard Parker, is introduced after a silent opening of Train Wrecks, Plane Wrecks, car crashes, and people lying dead in the streets. Spooky today, as back in sixty four. Is he the last man on earth alive ? No, in the first few minutes he meets Dennis Price, playing a very shifty but smooth criminal Quin Taggart. He travels with his lady, Peggy, played by Virginia Field at gunpoint.. Violet played by Vanda Godsel is the Hyper un-smart lady who travels with the good-natured when sober Edgar Otis, played by Thorley Walters, The young pregnant Lorna played by Alice Polk and her beau Mel played by David Spencer. All the Actors do a fine job, and when the script leans toward the relation side of things, it is fertile ground for interpersonal drama. On the bright side, a well produced, well scored mix. Borrowing on the theme of the last survivors on earth, in wake of worldwide everybody drops dead scenario, We have seen it before in classics like The Day of the Triffids, and Robot Monster. Given actors who can play their parts and keep it interesting, this is a worthy cast. Thats the good stuff.
On the other hand, yeah screaming ladies were par for the course; It sold the tickets and made the previews sensational, but did we need the. howling lapses of logic? The woman's roles were written with a disregard for logical survival instincts, can one be so panicky as not to lock a bolted door when being chased by a slow walking robots down the hall? I liked the film, real spoiler alert; so they knocked out the transmitter, now what happens when the mother ship comes to check things out. Seven out of Ten, "Independence day" Stars.