DVD : Devil Girl from Mars
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305772682
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 6305772681
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Release Date: March 21, 2000
Running Time: 77 minutes
Sales Rank: 46450
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: April 27, 1955
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Women of Earth, beware! This cosmic vixen has come for your husbands, boyfriends and brothers. Her mission is to bring men back to Mars to mate with a planetful of sex-starved she-devils who need fresh breeding stock to repopulate the red planet. And men, if you don't perform, you might just be incinerated by Chani the Robot or heaved into the atomic pile that powers their ship. A beautifully crafted production, unique special effects, inspired production design, and classy international beauty Hazel Court make this
a true gem of Atomic Age entertainment. Hugh McDermott, Patricia Laffan, Peter Reynolds, Joseph Tomelty, Adrienne Corri, Hazel Court.
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"Devil Girl From Mars" (1954) looks like a strange cross between "Quatermass Xperiment" (1955) and "Queen of Outer Space."(1958). Then throw in a little of "Mars Needs Women" (1967) and "The Mysterians" (1957) for good measure. So if you don't like any of these films you might consider avoiding contact with "Devil Girl".
This is the earliest film I know of with aliens seeking Earthlings for breeding stock. It is played perfectly straight. Naya (Patricia Laffan) is an emotionless Martian space explorer. She has the Michael Rennie role here, but she is not visiting Earth for reasons that will benefit mankind. Still she is beautiful and her black leather costume and "Ming the Merciless" helmet must have caused quite a sensation back in 1954.
Like Rennie she arrives in a flying saucer with a robot. The saucer looks interesting but Chani the robot looks like a mailbox with a hood ornament.
It's one of a handful of 50's English science fiction films. It's real claim to fame is that it's the adaptation of a radio play. All the action (and there is not very much) takes place on the moors of Scotland and involves a varied collection of Earthlings staying at the remote Bonnie Charlie Inn whose proprietress speaks the immortal line: "While we're still alive, we might as well have a cup of tea".
Actually the film is not nearly as bad as its reputation. The film stock is excellent (at least judging by the 1990 Rhino VHS release) even if ... Read More
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A lonely inn Scottish highland is visited by a meteor. Also the usual collection of personalities. After we get all the introductions and drinks on the house, an unexpected visitor appears from the sky.
Yep looks like a neighboring planet is deficient of a certain commodity. Yep it is Nyah (Patricia Laffan) an aloof min-skirted man less female alien. To satisfy the sci-fi in all of us the mention antimatter (in so many words) and the nest dimension. Does the space vehicle look like a prototype of the familiar Spielberg vehicles?
Will Ellen Prestwick (Hazel Court) suddenly switch from tomato juice to whisky?
Will Robert Justin (Peter Reynolds) kill or make time?
Will Nyah get what she came for or more than she bargained for?
See Patricia Laffan in a more dangerous role as Miss Alice MacDonald in "23 Paces to Baker Street" (1956) adapted from the book "Warrant for X"
Warrant For X
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Anyone entranced with Patricia Laffan's terrifcly wicked - hands on her hips, sardonic performance in QUO VADIS, will have an "out of body experience" while watching Pattie slink around in a tight rubber jump-suit, eyebrows arched, searching for sperm. After the lavish QUO VADIS, to sink to this foolishness, Pattie must have been VERY hungry - All the better for us. My dog was upset as I laughed myself silly watching this absurd movie - It is a gem. The quality is "watchable" - crummy - and it is just fine to be crummy - Pattie's the show, and what a show! No one has eyebrows like hers! Get it! This is what cheesy is all about - This ain't no Laff'an matter! It's a ridicules dream - day don't make em like dis no mo!
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Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2SA53QQ5AYTXB This video contains several clips from the 1954 British movie to show the quality of the dialogue, story, direction, and special effects. The film features characters with a bit more depth than usual for a 1950s alien invasion movie.
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This one is England's answer to Ed Wood, the worst director of the worst movies ever made. Mind you, the Devil Girl herself is the main draw here, looking like she has that costume poured onto her. But the plot?
Well, let's see ... Alien ship breaks down and lands in some utterly remote part of the British Isles. Evil Babe spends her time wandering back and forth between the broken ship, and the only pub in town, with its three inhabitants. Her fiendish plan? To take virile men back to Mars for mating purposes, as their own race is, well, dried up.
Ooookay ... and, who's resisting this plan? Rather than long lines of volunteers forming to the right, we have the buffoons from the pub daring to go up against Evil Babe's giant robot, which looks like a mail box, and likes to sadistically fry the opposition, and finally manage to blow up the space-ship that looks rather like a tea kettle, in a blaze of sparklers or something, as it takes off. End of story.
This is one of those flicks that's So Bad It's Good, especially if the weed supply holds out, and quite frankly, suggests a really cool adult film, to my twisted way of thinking. Any producers out there? Honest, I can make a really bad movie...
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