The talk used to distract the monster includes talk from dead characters.
On the way back from Mars we see a comet through the porthole.
This comet should not have arched at all in relation to the spaceship.
[Reference for changing this postmeteorites are meteors that make it through the Earth's atmosphere and hit the Earth.
A rock in space with a tail is a comet.
A rock in Earth's atmosphere is a meteor, if it makes it to the Earth, it's then called a meteorite.
] The spaceship's different floors are never in order.
For instance, Keinholz is on the top floor; he goes down one floor, looks around, then goes down another floor.
This floor is the one with Carruthers and Eric playing chess.
After Carruthers hears a scream he goes up the ladder to ask Keinholz if he had heard the noise; Carruthers peaks out of the hatch and is on the top floor, skipping the second floor Keinholz had to go through.
The ship is shown as going up with the stars going down, but in one scene not too long after they take off, a crew member looks through a porthole and the stars are going from right to left.
A shooting star can be seen.
The next shot is a long shot of the porthole and the stars are going from top to bottom on the screen, then suddenly they just stop.
After "It" attacks Van Heusen and tears his left boot and foot to shreds, his boot is clearly unscathed when another crew member drags him away from the hatch.
- PLOTBullets, grenades, gas bombs, electricity and even a healthy dose of atomic radiation seemingly fail to harm the creature.
But when Lt.
James Calder is pinned between the induction pumps because of an injured leg, he manages to hold the creature at bay with a portable blow torch.
The space helmets lack faceplates.
When Carruthers and Calder exit the ship, Calder is seen to reach into his helmet and scratch his nose.
When Lt.
Calder says he left the ''C'' compartment door open, you can see the reflective mono filament pulling the door closed.
In the scene where ''It'' startles Gino, the cigarette sticks to his lip and he takes three tries to push it off with his tongue.
The cigarette is supposed to fall out from fright as he is startled by ''It''.
When Van Husen is putting the grenades on the grating, you can see the mono-filament does not even touch at least three of the grenades.
When Carruthers and Caulder are going outside the ship, Ed says the time is "0520 hours".
"At 0525 hours start making noise.
Don't make it sound threatening.
", but his watch shows 0536 hours.
The monster bends a wooden stock rifle as if it were metal, or rubber.
Just before when the crew go down through the hatchway, about 3/4 of the way through the film, a hand appears on the far left, indicating that something should go down or sit down.
Nothing is seen to go down (no doors or hatches or actors) but the hand is clearly seen to be going up and down.
When the suggestion is made to use Gino's gas grenades, the weapons locker is opened and Bob retrieves the box of grenades.
However, the gas bulbs are loose in the box.
The box itself is not secured despite having to endure takeoffs and landings.
In the top level control room, the crew fires a bazooka at it twice.
However, they don't reload after the first shot.
Also, there is no back blast from the weapon.
Col.
Carruthers is arrested by Van Heusen and accused of the murder of his crew.
Yet, there is no evidence to support it, other than a skull with a bullet hole, though Van Heusen has no actual bullet and can't prove what gun fired it.
His accusations would be incredibly suspect and without merit.
In every shot of the ship moving through space the same star field is seen, indicating that the same shot is used each time.
Especially noticeable are two bright stars at the lower right side of the screen.
They use gas bombs on the monster yet are not affected by the gas when they take off their masks.
The air in the space ship would be recirculated and would spread throughout the ship taking the gas with it.
With a title that can easily apply to modern society if you capitalize both I and T of "It". But the terror in this case turns out to be the eggheads, and not the monster.
For the most part, this is little more than a standard 50's sci-fi alien monster B-movie. It's an OK one, but it's nothing more than that.
Fondly remembered science fiction film about a rocket ship being sent to Mars to rescue the first ship to land there. The crew finds that there is only one survivor, a Col.
This is a 1950s B film which 55 years later looks rather hokey and quaint. In its day it was regarded influential enough to inspire Ridley Scott's Alien.
The crew of a rescue ship returning from Mars discovers that they have a powerful predatory stowaway. Best known as the inspiration for 1979's classic sci-fi-boo!
With a B cast and C production values, it is fairly amazing that this film got four stars. Dated badly, in black and white, and filmed almost in one continuous shot for over an hour it looks like it could have been completed easily in one or two days.
It! Is just a great movie from a great movie making time when hollywood made great movies.
It's the 1950's. Even Women Astronauts must Serve the Coffee and Sandwiches.
Considering when this was made it isn't that bad but the man in the rubber alien suit is not to convincing. Plus the plot and dialogue are lacking even for then.
