A strange missile from outer space circles the Earth at low altitudes, destroying everything in its path.A strange missile from outer space circles the Earth at low altitudes, destroying everything in its path.A strange missile from outer space circles the Earth at low altitudes, destroying everything in its path.
Phillip Pine
- Dr. Joe Freed
- (as Philip Pine)
Fred Engelberg
- TV Singer
- (as Fred Engleberg)
Shirley J. Shawn
- Black Woman by Piano
- (as Shirley Shawn)
Cecil Elliott
- Harold's Wife
- (as Cecil Elliot)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaOriginal director William Berke died of a sudden heart attack on the first day of shooting. His son, Lester Wm. Berke, took over.
- GoofsWith less than four minutes before Jove launches, the lead character secures the plutonium, drives the long distance to the missile base, gets to the launch pad, goes up to the Jove warhead on a slow-moving lift, places the plutonium inside, arms all the warhead mechanisms and gets back to ground and away from the Jove rocket, all in less than four minutes.
- Quotes
Dr. Joe Freed: Who would have thought a thing like this could happen on a day like this!
- Crazy creditsOpening credits shown over a missile flying through a group of stars.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Weirdo with Wadman: The Lost Missile (1964)
Featured review
Ottawa - I Remember It Well
Very, very cheaply made sci-fi thriller from the Golden Age of the 1950s that surprisingly is much better than you might initially expect. Yes, its is undeniably cheaply made. Yes, many of the actors are sub-par. Yes, the story doesn't always make sense nor is it cohesive. Yes, there is plenty of stock footage for a film that isn't even 75 minutes long. What does it have going for it? Well, the story is entertaining as we follow the exploits of a hydrogen missile or some alien missile as it blazes its way from Alaska through Canada on its way to New York City turning everything it passes over nothing more than a burned cinder. Another reviewer noted that the film is not "scared" to kill people. How true and that is something very unique for a film like this and from the 1950s. It is refreshing(in a twisted way I guess). Robert Loggia does a credible job as the lead - an overworked scientist who is married to his job, fallen in love and out of favour with his fiancée Ellen Parker who is his co-worker as well. we get all the stereotypes one might imagine, but loggia nd even Parker show us enough depth of character to care. the scenes with the people huddling together to escape death are oddly convincing and the mood of the film stays tense throughout. this is not a great science fiction film by no means, but it is better than its budget would initially suggest.
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- Oct 4, 2009
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- Also known as
- Das rote Telefon... Alarm!
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- Runtime1 hour 10 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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