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What an amazing non-descript planet

The Hound of the Baskervilles makes a cameo!

Mysterious lightning!

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Mystereous rocket-shaped prop found! Perhaps a giant's lawn dart?

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"From Outer Space?"

"I could not deny the possibility"

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Yes, shush the woman, there's Science afoot!

What an asshole.

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Wow - now the fishing village has a street and actual buildings!

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Love how the car stirs up all the dry ice fog on the set.

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Big Daddy Lawn Dart has been sighted, thanks to the party lights inside.

And here's the Man From Planet X!

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"I know you're not given to hysteria, my dear ..."

The scientist is not improving.

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Heh - does this movie come before or after Invaders From Mars, with that hill, path and fence?

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Now you've done it! You broke the strobe light!

Ow, my ears!

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The scientist has been Svengalied!

Now we get frogs. Wrong film.

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The Giant Lawn Dart is transforming!

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The Red Bull Inn! And, the car is still just sitting in the middle of the road, in a puddle of dry ice fog.

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The village of Bury will be the closest point on Earth when Planet X passes, sixty hours from now!

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So, the Giant Lawn Dart is supposed to look like a diving bell?

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Hey - the Lawn Dart's lights are on again. Our heroes attempt to vandalize the Dart by scratching their initials into it with a diamond that they happen to carry.

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The Man From Planet X forgot to turn on his air supply. Our heroes do it for him, despite being threatened with some sort of alient tube-gun.

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We are now at the pantomime portion of our film.

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He's right behind me, isn't he?

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The Man from Planet X speaks Geometry!

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Wonder if the actor is actually in the suit at this point, or if the costume is just propped up in a corner. Ah, there, he's moving ...

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I say drugstore, you say chemist ...

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Oh, I was wrong - it's Americans that don't use car doors.

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And now, I shall torture your secrets from you ... for PROFIT!

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OK. so neither the doctor nor the scientist heard her scream?

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Well, the newspaperman made the jump from geometry to abuse pretty quickly there.

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Smoking a cigarette!

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"There best be no monkey business of a foreign nature!"

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"Eyes that are no better than a dead codfish"

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Well, the good people of Bury didn't know about the approaching planet until just now.

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The lawn dart has returned! Enslaved locals are planting a shrubbery abound it.

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The Scotland Yard Inspectors have arrived!

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Oh my God - they've planted the professor!

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The Man from Planet X is climbing down the outside of the Giant Lawn Dart - is the hatch on the very top?

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Chekhov's air supply valve!

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The Giant Lawn Dart disappears in a puff of smoke!

Planet X make a casual (and impossible) loop in the sky, cause a minor landslide.

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And we're given thirty seconds of denouement as a treat.

That all folks, Planet X fucks off into the cold vastness of space, where all of its inhabitants will freeze and die.

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Thanks to @Taweret for this classic from the 50's! Of course the American had to save the Scots and the English, as was the style in those days.

Apparently made by a studio trying to transition from stage to film production, which just adds to the enjoyment.

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@YsengrinWolf @Taweret wait really?

because that really would explain all those stage backdrops

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@moira @Taweret I'm guessing, but the sets (and backdrops) and dialog suggest it :)

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This does appear to be Mid Century Film Productions' first film. The sets & backdrops are reused from a Joan of Arc film a couple of years before.

@YsengrinWolf @Taweret I knew that backdrop had to be from something _way_ older.