It was better than I remembered. The less you know about the space aliens in a movie, the more plausible they are, something Ed Wood got horribly wrong. In this movie, they provided some explanation for what the aliens were doing. They were almost invincible but had limitations. Seeing the aliens walking out of their flying saucers from a distance was creepy.
Ray Harryhausen did the special effects and hated it. Stop motion animation of buildings being destroyed was too much work. It ends with the aliens attacking Washington, D.C.
Inspired by the "nonfiction" book Flying Saucers from Outer Space by Donald Keyhoe, so it almost had a serious purpose. He was head of The National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, a relatively respectable UFO group. In the '50s, when the movie was made, the group dismissed people who claimed to have contact with aliens, so I don't know how Keyhoe felt about the movie.
Starring Hugh Marlowe and Joan Taylor.
Free on Tubi.
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