Stranger from Venus
1954 | 75m | English
Popularity: 2 (history)
| Director: | Burt Balaban |
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| Writer: | Hans Jacoby |
| Staring: |
| Stranger from Venus (a.k.a. Immediate Disaster and The Venusian) is the story of a woman who meets a stranger with no pulse who has the power of life and death at his touch. He is here from Venus to warn Earth about the atom. | |
| Release Date: | Aug 23, 1954 |
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| Director: | Burt Balaban |
| Writer: | Hans Jacoby |
| Genres: | Science Fiction, Thriller |
| Keywords | space, alien contact, first contact |
| Production Companies | Rich & Rich Ltd. |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 20, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Patricia Neal | Susan North |
| Helmut Dantine | The Stranger |
| Derek Bond | Arthur Walker |
| Cyril Luckham | Dr. Meinard |
| Willoughby Gray | Tom Harding |
| Marigold Russell | Gretchen Harding |
| Arthur Young | Scientist |
| Kenneth Edwards | Charles Dixon |
| David Garth | First Police Officer |
| Stanley Van Beers | General |
| Nigel Green | Second Police Officer |
| Graham Stuart | Police Chief |
| John Le Mesurier | Official |
| Peter Sallis | Soldier |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Peter R. Hunt | Editor |
| Burt Balaban | Director |
| Desmond Leslie | Screenstory |
| Kenneth Talbot | Director of Photography |
| John Elphick | Art Direction |
| George R. Busby | Production Manager |
| John Cape | Sound |
| Barry Delmaine | Assistant Director |
| Robert Walker | Camera Operator |
| Tilly Day | Continuity |
| Nell Taylor | Makeup Artist |
| Barbara Ritchie | Hairdresser |
| Laura Nightingale | Wardrobe Supervisor |
| Eric Spear | Original Music Composer |
| Hans Jacoby | Screenplay |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Burt Balaban | Producer |
| Roy Rich | Associate Producer |
| Gene Martel | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 2 |
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| 2024 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
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This is all over the place. It seems derivative of Harry Bates' short story from 1940 "Farewell to the Master" as an alien - in this case from Venus - arrives to tell humanity to ditch nuclear weapons. Patricia Neal seems to pretty much reprise her role from "The Day The Earth Stood Still" (also bas ... ed on the same short story) as she and Cyril Luckham try to engage with our alien visitor, played by an almost static Helmut Dantine. He has landed in the UK but the radio announcements reporting his arrival all have American accents (not very BBC) and the special effects, such as they are, are pretty basic. Burt Balaban may have devised his direction to have a somnambulant effect - this is a very, very slow burn. It does contain the great quote "I can find no pulse, therefore there are two possible explanations: either I am drunk, or you are dead"