Tuesday, September 21, 2021

STRANGER FROM VENUS (1954)

Odd low budget made-in-UK version of The Day the Earth Stood Still. It even had Patricia Neal. 

A man appears at a British inn. He doesn't have any money but he can work. He doesn't have a name and says he's never paid taxes. The local doctor sits down and casually takes his pulse. He doesn't have one.

He performs a few faith healings and reads minds. The entire country knows that he's there but all he does is hang around the inn.

I didn't realize American cars were so popular in England. The steering wheels are on the left. The appearance of the a flying saucer causes Patricia Neal to wreck her convertible. The alien heals her and she staggers to the inn. Some British in an even bigger sedan stops later when they see the wrecked car.

Directed by Burt Balaban, cousin of Bob Balaban. With Austrian actor Helmut Dantine in the title role. He played a refugee in  Casablanca and, a couple decades later, was in Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia and The Killer Elite.

Available on Pub-D-Hub.

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