PHANTOM FROM SPACE (1953) retro sci-fi movie
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- Phantom from space 1953 full movie. One of the many 1950's vintage Sci-fi movies produced by W. Lee Wilder and his independent film company Planet Filmways. The plot of this American black-and-white science fiction film follows FCC investigators arrival in the San Fernando Valley after what seems to be a crash of a flying saucer, and television-radio transmissions are interrupted (FCC to the rescue!) and an invisible! space man is seen running around (lol) being all radioactive and causing mayhem. - Broken Trout -
I grew up with "Sci-fi" in the 50's 60's and now in my 70's...I can watch as much and as late as I I want without parents yelling its bed time 😎
Raid the fridge, also 😀
So true. Ain't it great. Can't seem to stop snacking though.
I, my sister and two brothers were allowed to stay up Saturday night to watch those sci-fi during the 50’s and 60’s provided we did not fall asleep and get found in the living room Sunday morning. Every single Saturday night my youngest brother would fall asleep and then had to be basically carried upstairs as our father had said there would be no more late night movies if we could not stay awake. While he never told us, as adults we figured out that he knew and on some level enjoyed hearing us struggle to get a sleeping seven year old up a flight of stairs quietly.
Tom Dees - I’m 60, and my dad would let me stay up late for only ONE tv show: Star Trek! I didn’t understand a lot of it back then, but the space ship was neat!
LOL! Me too! I was born in 1950 and these old B+W movies really were made to scare the beejesuz out of you and stimulate bizarre dreams.
Another good one from the 1950's, what a great decade for sci-fi entertainment. For me these lower budget movies are so much better than the mega-million dollar movies that have been playing the over-priced theaters for the last few decades.
I like them all. New or old. I think they both have value.😊
Yes the 1950s was a great era for films and in particular science fiction ( the A bomb )
@@allegra0 pxbhbp😊
Excellent use of oscilloscopes which are needed in all space related films.
"The Forbidden Planet". Still one of my all time favorite Si-Fi movies!
“Danger, danger!”
I never get tired of these old science fiction movies. I think that one of the best things is the b&w film. The imagery and use of shadows at various points during the film are for me great.
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i love the B&W effect even in photos. i saw all the 50’s television shows and movies that way, of course (and into the ‘60’s). color TV’s were expensive. :) 📺🏁
and the music in the old. one's was awsome not like todays
How times have changed! Today's movies, four-letter words every other sentence, blood gore and violence every 15 minutes, nudity left and right, and they call that acting, when I grew up no movie had that stuff in it, that was acting, though I'm only 65 it feels like I'm on another planet, but I do have the memories, of a better place and a better time!
Those aren't shadows, your eyesight is failing.
Science fiction movies were so great to watch on tv in the late 1950s and early 1960s and then what happens, we get in my view the greatest science fiction tv show of all time The Outer Limits. Star trek was just space soap opera but Limits was so well done , like watching a feature film in one hour.
MOST OF THE LATE 30'S, 40'S, 50'S, 60'S SCI-FI TV SHOWS WERE USUALLY ABOUT 1 HR. 10 MIN., THROW IN SOME COMMERCIALS AND YOU HAVE A TV MOVIE!
No, Star Trek was a brilliant statement on society, while The Outer Limits was a low-quality show that wished it could be The Twilight Zone.
@mynameisworld if you call the captain romancing hot women in almost every episode a view on society.
I love these historical documentaries.
Hilarious
A lot better than any of today's fake "documentaries" on UFOs and "alien encounters" ...
👏👍👏 T. B. !!! If Movies as this didn’t showcase the Highly Advanced JET planes- or RADAR!- we’d Never Know of Great Scientific Inventions .. errr.. kind of Slowly Moving Forward (?)! 🤣! Notice too; ZERO : Tattoos, Pink Dyed Hair, Multiple Body Piercings ( in places Mother Nature NEVER would approve) or Snot-Nose 17 yr old “ Social Influencer “ MOSTLY-PEACEFUL “ Privileged , Protesting Pukes! And people wore :Ties/ Jackets/ Women in Respectable Attire/ and had MANNERS. PS- always Loved those Fedoras & Hats!! Good Bless. No Reply Necessary. 👴🏼NoBody. ( Yeah… and myself at 74!! “…🎼 🎹 Those we’re the DAAAYYSS 🎶..” )
Documentaries?😂😂😂😂😂
Hahaha lol fun
Great classic ❤grew up watching theses movies even till this day still watching them 😊
I love watching 50's Sci-Fi films so much more entertaining than the films on the telly
50's science fiction is like a old friend you call every once and a while. When all the technology and microwave generation starts to get to you, watch a 50's science fiction.
You do know that microwave ovens are from the 1940s. Not sure how those old folks would "get to you".
@@joepangean6770 Well, I guess what I really meant is instant gratification generation.
No, I didn't know microwaves went that far back. Alot of knowledge came out of the 1940's. It was in the 40's that the Biblical fig tree was revived.
@@characterunderconstruction5891 May 14th 1948 to be precise and it wasn`t revived, it was prophecy fulfilled. js
@@willythewave You are so correct, 1948 was a prophetical year.
Also, in 1948 Korea declared their independence. The land in the east at the ends of the Earth.
This is what John saw in his vision from Patmos. Korea is east of Patmos and on the 38 parallel, Patmos and Jerusalem are also on the 38 parallel. Shadow and reality or prophecy and fulfillment.
Revelation 7:1-3 & Isaiah 46: 11 & Isaiah 41: 9.
GodBlessU.
@@characterunderconstruction5891 I didn`t know about the Korea part Ma`am. Thank you for telling me. And thank you for the scriptures. I will look those up. God bless you too. :)
What a delightful blend of early Atomic Age paranoia, Ed Wood plot line, film noir dialog/costumes , and DW Griffith continuity . Great !!!
LOL!
i want to see more good movies like this. don't you?
When I was a kid (1000 B.C.) we called these "15 minute monster movies." The creature shows up in the last 15 minutes of the film & boy did we look forward to that reveal. We'd have waited patiently through the first part just to see the bones come through the skin! Loved 'em. You had to.
im at12000 bc lmao
Thanks for sharing that! Nice inside piece of info.
I can watch films like this and never get tired of watching them
They don’t make movies like this any more. Great fun.
I love watching these movies. They are so fun to watch. Especially the movies that show space travel. The three essentials of 1950s space travel were cigarettes whiskey and firearms.
The police lieutenant was doing his best Rod Serling imitation in a couple of scenes and he lived to be 96. Not bad for a guy who was puffing them cigs like they were going out of style. The very attractive actress Noreen Nash is still alive and kicking at age 97. Good for her. I guess.
An Fab!
What I meant was, “who needs part of a cancerous lung”? Good for him! Ya?
He also played in the very last Star Trek with Capt. Kirk. "Turn about Intruder".
@@joankersting2358 Ja
You guess?
The super fun-to-watch movies of the 50s and 60s - gotta love it.
Excellent movie! I love the old black and white sci-fi movies. Thanks for sharing.
Love all the old RDFs. No cell phones. A little bit of “The Invisible Man”. Throw in some Theremin for good measure. A simpler time, for sure. 👏👏
Okay, not an expert - but the moment a Geiger Counter is that insane, I'm bailing out of that shack and running down to the next county on my courageous and heroic way out of the state.
WHAT A CLASSIC FROM HE PAST. KEEP THEM COMING! THANK YOU.
Always remembered this one. I thought I would never see it again. Haven't seen it since 1960s.
OMG One of those old movies with unexpected chuckles here and there. Some of the situations are hilarious, like standing over the disintegrating radioactive suit as they all breath in the fumes!
What a hoot! Thanks for posting!
And the Geiger counter was louder than the dialogue. Run. Away.
@@sirtalkalotdoolittle But their black gloves counteracted the radiation. Once the black gloves came out, the radiation veered off.
remember the CNN reporter sniffing at an alleged nerve gas canister in Syria
No goggles or ppe while handling chemicals.
you mean that was not real?
Nothing like a naked invisible man running around. Also, I always carry around a lead lined box…just in case. This is so funny.
I thought everyone had a lead lined box, don’t you,
Wouldn't an aluminum foil helmet be just as effective?, and easier to carry
I wish I could be 6 years old again to enjoy this. Every modern sci fi drama is based on this edge of seat fun>
LOVE THESE OLD MOVIES AND THE OLD CARS....JUST THE BESTT......
The station wagon is a 1948 Ford
...and smoking. Everyone is smoking (cigarettes, that is).
Thank you so much for posting these classic science fiction films that we have never been able to see before. Much obliged to you
How can you not love the classics :)
I don't love these classics - sue me!
🙄...Easy....some-are-just-too-lousy-to-bother-with,-including-this-one.
I still love old scfi. Thanks.
-Same here.
No matter how hot the weather suits hats and ties were the manly attire of the day.Movies or not!
Another golden oldie that I will binge-watch... 👽
Why it didn't win an Academy Award is beyond me
This film was made for a drive-in movie theatre. You wouldn't want to miss it at the Drive-in. I thought I saw Clark kent chasing the Phantom.
I was also waiting for Superman.
Who really ever "watches" the movie at a drive in.
that was superman.
Love these old sci-fi movies.
An excellent SciFi movie, BT! Thanks. Man's best friend also seems to be a friend to non-human's, too. Thanks for sharing this.
THANKS FOR POSTING! i love these old movies!
First time watching this movie , these old sci fi movies always fun to watch . Thank you Broken Trout .
You are very welcome Lucy, have a great week @RetiredSchoolCook
I hope the dog was paid well he did most of the acting ...
This is an under appreciated gem. Not Top Ten, but enjoyable.
these movies made it possible for a cinematic career without bothering to go to acting school
HA HA .. yeah .. and most actors of today fit in the same category. Without CGI there would be no movies nowadays
MODERN ACTORS ARE LACKING IN THEATRICAL ABILITY.
BUT ........
THEY MAKE UP FOR IT WITH ALL OF THEIR POLITICAL FOOLERY.
COMMUNIST, SOCIALIST, AND DESTRUCTOCRAT, THEY CAN PLAY ALL OF THOSE ROLES, DOWN TO A TEE.
I’m 76 and have seen all these Si-Fi movies at least 2 or 3 times. The movies cost .50 cents for the whole day on Saturdays including cartoons and serials like Roy Rogers, Buck Rogers and Rocket Man
Brother, the older we get the more we watch !! 😛
The big, "damatic" final reveal of the alien: a shot of some guy in a silver suit walking on the roof of a building way in the distance - filmmaking doesn't get any better than this! 😛
GOTTA LOVE THE NAVY AND COAST GUARD, GREAT WORK AND THE VAST SEA! MY DAD WAS IN WWII AND A NAVY MAN, HE DROVE A CREW BOAT! HE DROPPED OFF SOLDIERS AT ISLANDS PREPARED TO GO TO WAR! SCARY BUSINESS BUT THOUSANDS OF MEN DID IT! WE HAVE THESE VETERANS TO THANK FOR A SAFE AMERICA. BE SURE TO THANK ONE! MY DAD PASSED AWAY 22 YEARS AGO! HE NEVER COMPLAINED ABOUT BEING IN THE SERVICE! HE LOVED AMERICA! GREAT MAN! HE DIDN'T LIE, HE DIDN'T STEAL, HE WENT TO WORK EVERYDAY, WORKED A 2ND JOB FROM HOME AS THE SECRETARY-TEASURER OF THE RAILROAD CREDIT UNION! MARRIED TO THE SAME WOMAN, MY MOTHER FOR 36 YEARS.
Long Live Retro Sci-fi .... thanks for the upload "BT"
Thanks for the comment @Richard Dominguez Trout does not live on noir alone.
Stay safe Richard.
I watched all sorts of "B" movies on Saturday nights after the 11 o'clock news and stayed up until 3 AM when they stopped broadcasting. I don't remember ever seeing this one. But it does bring back fond memories of Shock theater.
So. They had movies after Jack paar & johnny carson?😂
@@kathleenking47 No, just the local Philadelphia news on Saturday night/Sunday morning
Where would fifties sci-fi be without the theremin?
I always liked this movie. Had it on VHS when I was a kid.
Mystery Theatre
3000 stuff! - Love it!
Oh Yeah!!!
Well you're off by a 1000 but I'm still with you.
Yeah, that was a great series
That was a pretty good movie with some very good special effects too.
1950's B&W TV SCIFI
is all I need & want 👍
Yikes! The phantom goes cammando.....no underwear. 29 minute mark. Aw those crazy phantoms, always going for the wild side.
The Phantom was acting more like an escaped convict than an outer space alien. When he put that 2x4 against the door to keep the chasers out, I was too done for 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Then, they counted to ten before breaking down the door 🚪 🤣. I'm loving this.
That's some outstanding law enforcement tactics, no doubt about it.
I love watching these hokey 1950s B movies while blazed at 11 o'clock at night lol
"I need an ambulance."
"Sorry this is a communications vehicle."
Haw!
Thanks again, so can enjoy these great movies all over again!!😅
Quite a thoughtful film; an alien who apparently meant no harm, only defending itself. Clearly a very low budget but used very effectively.
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what do you mean low budget?
This has to be one of the few films of the cold war era, that showed the alien was just defending itself.
Holy foxy assistants Batman, Mrs. Randall is FINE ☺. This flick suddenly just got even better.
Ooh lookie here. They have Clark Kent of Superman running around in this movie looking for the Invisible Space Man.
If you like running and barking, you’ll love this film.
😂lol
The barking started to get to me at the end. 10 minutes of solid running around and dog barking.
Actually, it’s not “retro”. It’s just an older movie. A newly made movie being stylistically “older” would be considered “retro”. It IS a good film, though, so you get applause for posting it. Despite many things that can be viewed as ridiculous through today’s lens, this film is actually a solid investigative procedural. It’s good science fiction. 🙂
I totally agree....when I was about 10 years old this movie scared the shit out of me....the alien is invisible...yikes!
I agree - solid investigative journalism !!!
Betty sure looked great in those shorts.
DAm
Yeah, she did!
All I noticed was how these guys at the car near the beach just threw all their trash on the ground with NO regard to the environment.
i am 68 but I can tell you this by far is the best science fiction movie I have ever seen bar none.
It was entertaining, as you say.
If you enjoyed this movie, then you may also enjoy these other two:
Forbidden Planet
The Day The Earth Stood Still
@@im1who84u Yes, those two are both excellent movies.
The poor Alien fellow only came to our planet because he saw a film broadcast
into space called " Earth Girls Are Easy ".
Geena Davis.
_Mmmmmmmm._
Efficient use of Los Angelis' Griffith Park Observatory, and it's Art Deco back drops was a good choice to add dramatic effect. No expense was spared for special effects and prop budgets....
Classic...with obligatory cop banter and dames in danger. And a lethal rad dose for the entire cast and crew...enjoy the ride!!!
That should've been on the poster promoting this movie.
Some of these old creakers are quite enjoyable. Some of them aren’t. This one is an are. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you like them! @Bodegabreath 558 I appreciate you taking the time to watch, thanks! BT
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Mrs. Evans is quite the looker☺
Barbara Randall, even better.
I like that hula hoop radar on that woody really high tech lol
Loop antennas are used for direction finding at those frequencies. The other antennas they showed were aimed straight up, and would be useless for direction finding..
You use the angle from two known locations, and a map to find the point where the cross, to triangulate the source.
I haven,t seen this movie for a long time on TV. An over look type of movie that doesn,t get play at all. But its quite good with the plot. An invisible alien in a space suit runs around the place.
The car with the directional antenna pointing upwards !
And the dog laments "he actually liked me, bummer"...
Wow! Theramins were around in 1953 as well! And in the 1950's radiation was the big scary thing. While nonstop cigarette smoking was not scary at all... The amount of cig smoking in this flick is scary indeed. Most Sci-Fi flicks of this era were just as horrible as this one, with only a few exceptions. On the other end of the greatness spectrum, "The Day The Earth Stood Still" runs rings around this one, for example.
The strangest mystery in this movie that I saw was the antenna on top of the car randomly changing, more than once.
another good watch from broken trout, thanks !
Appreciate the nice comment stewart, thank you! @stewart mccall
If I had a nickel every time Griffith Observatory was used in a scifi film
I'd have a lot of nickels.
Adjust for inflation 😉
Yeah, I thought I recognised it.
Very good low budget 1950s movie. I enjoyed it. And, Barbara Randall played by Noreen Nash, was kinda pretty.
He’s dead Jim.
The alien hombre died, evaporated, and the Rod Serling wannabe lit a smoke and threw the match where the guy died and vaporized. No love there.
I noticed more littering starting at 11:00. Back then the whole world was our garbage can.
@@389383 LOL
Now I can have scotch & cigars with these movies and don’t have to wait for “Shock Theater” on Saturday nights!
Now, you know the meaning of grindhouse films. This is one of them.
Just watched this. On researching the cast I find that Noreen Nash (Barbara Randall) died on the 6th of June aged 99. Amazing what you learn from what went before.
I should add this to my next movie night!
Silly & fun !! very entertaining
As if news reporters ever hung out with cops and discussed cases...LOL
I loved the triangulation equipment they had back then a car with a giant antenna and a degree compass to find aim at the strongest radio signals. It still works the same way as it did then just no fancy cars with hand rotating antenna or radar dishes sticking through their rooves, otherwise same exact principle LMAO. "THERE WAS NO HEAD INSIDE THAT HELMET" Guess that's what makes it a Phantom lol? Oh boy good stuff! 👍 I love it. Thanks for sharing this movie, my father was in his teens around the time this was made and he said he still remembers hearing it first on the radio shows they had then. Then he saw it in the theater as well.
It's a pity those roof-mounted antennas never became a fad.
Take a deep breath of that alien scented air!
I'm imaging Tom, Crow and Mike's banter
Would be an improvement.
old movies are great & the old vibrato sound effect is excellent
it's a theremin
First they invented the Theremin, then they invented Sci-Fi movies.
So ... there are 110 comment s...yet ONLY 1 .
Female replied..ms Lisa...
Hey ladies don't you like this fantastic movie.???any ladies here?? Except ms Lisa...
"Let's not do anything to antagonise the Phantom" - meanwhile they take along a manic dog that cannot stop barking. Did anyone else notice the alien had 6 toes on his foot? The gorgeous actress who played Barbara, Noreen Nash died on June 6, 2023 aged 99.
I was 11 when this came out but I never saw it then. Interesting movie.
It played out like a crime drama... with a sci-fi adjunct!
I love this movie and watch whenever I see It. I do like the color version better
I use to be a fanatic about horror and sci-fi movies but I must have missed this one . never saw( hahaha) an invisible alien. cool. one for the books
The dog is good. Difficult to decide whether it is supposed to be day or night during many of the scenes around the 30 minute mark.
I was hoping the Phantom would get him. That incessant barking was irritating.
@@389383 Yes, in the last half hour, the dog has more to "say" -- and more close-ups -- than most of the actors. Just annoying. Have to keep the mute button on the mutt.
Never heard of this movie before!!
Wow! I thought it was sorta a classic @track1949
It's great that the viola player got a good paycheck for playing the saw all through this movie
It's a Theremin, invented in the 1920s.
Oh yeah. Such a rare instrument but definitely used for sify
One of my favorite old syfys💖
Yet another great Scin Fi film uploaded by Broken Trout!
It always amuses me in the movies like this how the guys run all over the place in suits and ties, with hats, no less.
ah, yes, back when people cared about their appearance.
My childhood every one smoked and wore a hat. I was told the hat Era ended when John F Kennedy attended his swearing in without a hat. But his wife did.
According to IMDB at about 40:00
"Major Andrews (James Seay) has possibly 'broken wind' (flatulated) due to the facial reactions of Noreen Nash sitting to his left. She repeatedly reacts as though she smells something foul and visibly gives the Major several 'dirty looks' in the next few shots."
Looks like it to me.
Thank you. That was worth it.
Well, I'd say that Major Andrews wanted to give her a demonstration of gas warfare! . . .
At 40:06 she looks towards the camera as if she's expecting the Director to say "Cut" (no pun intended) so that they can all retreat for some fresh air.
Great film, i love it !!
Another great one. Poor space guy couldn't breath. That's a new one.