When the alien scientist is showing Dr.
Martin their energy storage system, he says they've stored "several trillion electron volts (eV)" of energy.
While an eV is a unit of energy, it is a very small one.
One trillion eV would be enough energy to power a 100 Watt lightbulb for slightly over one million-millionth of a second (1.
6 pSec to be more precise).
Martin (as a nuclear scientist) would have known this was a small amount of energy, so it can't be put off as the alien misusing unfamiliar terms.
- PLOTAfter the FBI agent regains consciousness on the ground, you can see the piece of paper, containing top-secret information that Dr.
Martin was supposed to leave under the rock, next to the FBI agent.
When the FBI agent gets up he leaves the piece of paper on the ground, goes to his car, answers the radio, and then leaves without going back to get the piece of paper.
The microphone used to record Dr.
Martin's confession is a desktop shortwave radio pushbutton microphone.
When the button is up, it acts as a speaker.
You have to depress the "talk" button on the base in order to transmit.
The FBI agent just holds the neck of the mike stand without depressing the "talk" button.
This type of microphone was incompatible with tape recorders then in use in the 1950s.
The nuclear explosion at the end of the film is stock footage of an atom bomb test conducted in the Pacific a few years earlier (which turns up in many science fiction movies of the 50s), and you can clearly see the ocean and the fleet of ships blown up as part of the test through the window overlooking what is supposed to be the Nevada desert.
In most of the shots of Dr.
Martin's plane circling in the air and as it plummets toward the ground, clouds can clearly be seen through the aircraft.
In the shots showing the supposed "fireball" on the ground, a couple of vehicles can plainly be seen on the highway to the right.
(Since the shot is a freeze-frame effect, the vehicles are motionless but still evident.
) Also, since this is a nuclear test site, there shouldn't be any highways, let alone traffic, in the vicinity to begin with.
Freeze-frames are used in several scenes where the action is supposed to be livethe loud speaker tower before the first atom bomb test; the shot from the air of the "fireball"; Dr.
Martin a few moments after he crashes his car; and in the opening shot of Dr.
Martin lying on the aliens' operating table.
When Dr.
Kruger leaves his office, he is clearly seen turning off its lights.
A few minutes later, Dr.
Martin opens Kruger's office door, and from the outside the office is still dark.
But as soon as Martin enters and the scene switches to the inside of the office, the room is suddenly light again, though he hasn't switched on any light.
Martin turns on a light switch after entering the already-lit office, but this switch appears to be for the room containing the safe, and in any case no light comes on in the office itself when he does turn this switch on.
) When the alien Denab receives the report from his observer on the surface and shows Dr.
Martin the calculations (on what appears to be a piece of aluminum foil), the calculations are written in English and use Earth mathematical signs, which hardly seems likely for an internal report for beings from the planet Astron-Delta.
- PLOTDenab shuts the cage door behind Martin to trap him in with the huge animals they are breeding, then later opens the cage to let Martin back in, asking him, "Don't you think you would feel more at ease on this side of the cage?" But both before he shuts Martin out, and after he lets him back in, the cage door is wide open - leaving the Astron-Deltans themselves at risk of being attacked by their giant insects and animals.
When Briggs circles around to try to disarm Martin in the powerhouse control room, he is shown backing away then moving toward him from one direction, then lunging at Martin from an entirely different side of the room.
During the chase through the powerhouse, Dr.
Martin passes a wall of instruments where he pauses briefly in front of a clock reading 10:43.
A few moments after, the group chasing him also stops briefly before that very same clock, showing the same time.
But less than a minute later, in the control room, the clock on the wall there reads exactly 10:00.
The last name of actor Frank Gerstle (who plays Dr.
Kruger) is misspelled in the end credits as "Gerstel".
When Dr.
Kruger (Frank Gerstle) drives out to the desert to look for the caves that this friend, Dr.
Martin, spoke about, he exits his car from the Passenger door.
In the next scene he is walking toward the rocks from the Driver's side.
Bug-eyed aliens who can read minds and know every language in the universe threaten to destroy earthlings through making us bug food and utilize none other than Peter Graves to achieve their goal. Determined to stop this, he takes on this mission impossible and the military who justifiably don't believe him.
Peter Graves, all jut-jawed seriousness and desire to do good for the world, is nuclear scientist Dr. Doug Martin.
Aliens wearing ping-pong balls for eyes and candy-cane striped cummerbunds inhabit Earth's underground and all they need now is one bad actor (Peter Graves) to provide necessary energy information.Director Lee Wilder's second take on atomic science fiction succeeding 'Phantom from Space' the year before isn't too bad.
Atomic scientist/pilot Doug Martin is missing after his plane crashes on an reconnaissance mission after a nuclear test. Miraculously appearing unhurt at the base later, he is given sodium amethol, but authorities are skeptical of his story that he was captured by aliens determined to conquer the Earth with giant monsters and insects.
The only comment I can add to the near-unanimous panning of the film by other IMDb critics is this. Remember how when you were very young, you saw some sci-fi or horror film that scared the daylights out of you, and then when you saw it again many years later you wondered how you could have possibly found it so scary?
I know this is a very bad movie, but there is one thing i like about. It has almost all the elements of what would become the "classic" alien abduction account.
Killers from Space (1954) 1/2 (out of 4) Peter Graves plays a scientist overlooking atomic tests when he is killed. His friends and family are shocked when he returns to them and it turns out that aliens have brought him back to life so that he can spy for them.
If this had any budget at all, they spent it all on boiling the eggs to use as the alien's eyes. Peter Graves ("Dr.
It is obvious that all these small humble extravaganzas live by their own clumsiness and defects;these became their very core and merit. Take this thriller, this Graves SciFi thriller about underground bugeyed aliens who hide in a cave stuffed with hitech and dress a monstrous menagerie to take over the world.
