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The first pilot to leave Earth's atmosphere lands, then vanishes; but something with a craving for blood prowls the countryside...The first pilot to leave Earth's atmosphere lands, then vanishes; but something with a craving for blood prowls the countryside...The first pilot to leave Earth's atmosphere lands, then vanishes; but something with a craving for blood prowls the countryside...
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Helen Forrest
- Secretary
- (as Helen Forest)
Roland Brand
- Truck Driver
- (as Rowland Brand)
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- TriviaThe pilot in the stock footage sequences is Chuck Yeager.
- GoofsWhen Commander Prescott exits a building, he passes a sign that reads, "Flight Operations - Authorised Personnel Only". The film is set on an American Air Force base in New Mexico, and no sign in the United States would use the British spelling of "authorized", with an "s" instead of a "z". (The fact that the film was shot in England accounts for this error.)
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Doctor Paul von Essen: The conquest of new worlds always makes demands of human life. And there will always be men who will accept the risk.
- ConnectionsFeatured in It Came from Hollywood (1982)
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Once Again, There Are Some Things Man Was Not Meant To Know
Bill Edward's experimental spaceship vanishes on an attempt to go higher than ever before. When a monster starts to drain the blood of people, first at the air force base, and then elsewhere, his brother, Marshall Thompson, investigates.
It's a production of MGM in England, and its cheapness shines through. There's lots of stock footage, often of Chuck Yeager, and of US war planes on the ground. There's also some subtext about the risk of ambition, but it's mostly about the "there are some things man was not meant to know" trope. Geoffrey Faithfull, who started as a cinematographer with Hepworth in the 1910s and would work for another decade, shoots the movie efficiently.
It's a production of MGM in England, and its cheapness shines through. There's lots of stock footage, often of Chuck Yeager, and of US war planes on the ground. There's also some subtext about the risk of ambition, but it's mostly about the "there are some things man was not meant to know" trope. Geoffrey Faithfull, who started as a cinematographer with Hepworth in the 1910s and would work for another decade, shoots the movie efficiently.
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- Budget
- £100,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 17 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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