First Man Into Space

First Man Into Space has its low budget limitations, but it's story is a corker. It's one of the few 50s science fiction stories that question non-atomic technology: how far sure man go? What are the consequences of his thirst for knowledge and experience? This time there are no invading aliens, no throbbing radioactive brains from another planet, and no marauding killer tree stumps. We are simply confronted with a man who crosses a line and tries to come back. It helps that he looks like The Incredible Melting Man, but this is a movie that does more than simply shock the audience.

An astronaut , Navy test pilot Lieut. Dan Prescott -Bill Edwards-, in experimental rocket plane Y-13, disobeys orders and becomes the first man to fly outside the ionosphere. When he returns to Earth by ejection he is covered with strange space dust and having a craving for blood . While his brother, an Air Force commandant, -Marshal Thompson- attempts to look for the missing astronaut throughout the countryside along with his girlfriend : Maria Landi . The pilot compartment lands with no trace of the pilot... but first animals , then people, are found their members cut . It leaps out the head lines !.Far and away the most startling and unexpected adventure film ever made!

A monster/sci-fi movie with special effects-laden and a lot ot stock-footage, dealing with an astronaut falling on Earth , being plastered with metallic meteor dust and with a starving organism needing to feed , along the way an alien tries to survive and begins killing in order to get it . First picture to lift the veil in an unpredictable future , concerning a spectacular drama of the first man in history to be rocketed into the terrifying unknown of outer space . On the virtues of this low-budget movie results in an original and eerie story with suspense , tension and horror . In spite of its short budget , filmmaker Robert Day uses his imagination indeed , that's why so often directors make their best movies when they don't have that much money. Passable FX and make-up , as the creepy astronaut/monster suit was so heavily made and risked thermal , it could only be worn for a few minutes at a time .

It contains a peculiar score , using electronic music by Buxton Orr. As well as atmospheric Cinematography in black and white by Geoffrey Faithfull .The motion picture was uneven but professionally directed by Robert Day. His first film as director, the black-comic The Green Man (1956) for the writer-producer team of 'Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat´, garnered fine reviews and a classic notoriety ; using this as a starting point , Day went on to become one of the industry's busiest directors . He relocated to Hollywood in the 1960s and began directing scads of TV episodes and made-for-TV movies on this side of the Atlantic. He occasionally turns up in bits in his own productions , including Grip of the Strangler (1958), Two way stretch (1960), the mini-series Peter and Paul (1981) . Robert was a craftsman who directed all kinds of genres as Tarzan movies : Tarzan's three challenges, Tarzan and the great river , Tarzan and the valley of gold , Comedy : Two way stretch , Terror : Corridors of blood , Thriller : Operation snatch . And he made a lot of episodes of TV series as Perry Mason, Kingston confidential, McCloud , Logan run , Robin Hood, Kojak, Sam Cade, Ironside, Streets of San Francisco, Dallas, Disneyland, among others. Rating : 5.5/10 . Fair Sciencie Fiction/monster/terror movie that will appeal to the usual aficionados .

A not too exceptional fifties science fiction film involves an impulsive astronaut who can't follow orders. The up side is that it has allowed the program to go ahead by leaps and bounds; the down side is that he is out of control. On a dangerous mission, he breaks through the earth's atmosphere and finds himself in orbit. While there, he passes through some space dust which coats his ship and him. The ship comes down, an automatic parachute breaking the fall (sort of hard to swallow) and when it is found, Dan is gone. We finally get to see him. He is in a monster suit that is impenetrable (actually it's his skin). He also has a lust for as many pint of bloods as he can get his hands on. He goes on a killing rampage. Hs brother, who warned him about his lack of coach-ability (spoilsport), is trying to save him while other work to do him in. He ransacks a blood bank and siphons several innocent people. The movie shots of space are better done than most, but the acting is stiff and uninspiring, with dull sets and little real action.

I also saw this movie in 1959 as an 8-year-old. I went to the theater with my "older" friends, they were like 11-12. The movie scared the wits out of me; I hid my view behind the person sitting in front of me, my friends never let up on making fun of me. This was the first time I had gone to the movies with non-adults...big mistake! The monster was scary and creepy. It haunted me for years. In fact, I probably had some persistent subliminal turmoil over the movie. Fast forward to 2008 and I found the DVD to rent. I watched again, and guess what? The movie is still scary! It's pretty high-camp and was made on a limited budget, but the creepiness is still there. I suppose the fact that the back line story is believable makes it even more scary. Watching it with my wife probably exorcised some demons. Funny how movies can move us, positively or negatively. All my 60 years I can still rehash this event when I was eight. Still the scariest movie I ever saw. I dig it.

Cocky astronaut goes into space and disobeys direct orders from his brother, turns into a one-eyed standing pile of glop, and tears the necks of cows and humans for their blood. Premise of film is totally ridiculous, but everyone involved seems so earnest. That doesn't necessarily(and particularly in this case) mean they are good. The film is very cheaply made with some of the most improbable space flight footage ever shot. Marshall Thompson(from It! The Terror Beyond Space) plays the monster's overbearing, hard-working, tougher than nails brother who frequently throws out one cliche after another. Listening to him call his superior 'Skipper' had me laughing from the get go(okay, thought I would use some well-worn cliches). Thompson is the best the film has to offer in terms of acting. He is stoically adequate at best. Marla Landi is the monster's Italian love interest and looks at least effective in some Capri slacks. The scientific mumbo jumbo churned out is spectacularly immense, with scientific sounding names and theories bombarding the viewer repeatedly. Certainly not a good film(nor anywhere near it), the film does have a unique charm(albeit not over-powering)and does manage to keep the viewer awake throughout the 78 minutes of running time. And some of the scientific premises put forth have some interesting possibilities as well. Do watch out, though, for the pervasive corny dialogue. It gets pretty thick folks!