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Category: Sci-Fi
All Genres: Sci-Fi, Thriller, Horror
Release Year: 1954
Country: USA
Runtime: 71
Rating: 4.8 (0)
Languages: English
Director: W. Lee Wilder
Sound: Mono
Taglines:Earth attacked! The last word in science-fiction thrills! INVASION FROM ANOTHER PLANET! (original print ad - all caps) Attack by monsters from another planet! Strange creatures from another world attack planet earth! Its a nuclear nightmare!
Writing by: William Raynor - (screenplay) (as Bill Raynor)
Myles Wilder - (story)
Produced by: Fred M. Muller - associate producer
W. Lee Wilder - producer
Cast: Peter Graves - Dr. Douglas Martin
James Seay - Col. Banks
Steve Pendleton - Briggs, FBI
Frank Gerstle - Dr. Curt Kruger (as Frank Gerstel)
John Frederick - Denab / The Tala (as John Merrick)
Barbara Bestar - Ellen Martin
Shepard Menken - Maj. Clift - MD (as Shep Menken)
Jack Daly - Power House Guard
Ron Kennedy - Sgt. Powers, Sentry
Ben Welden - Tar Baby 2 Pilot
Burt Wenland - Sergeant Bandero
Music: Manuel Compinsky
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline: A scientist monitoring atomic tests, killed in a plane crash, is revived by aliens so he can spy on the tests and help them conquer the world.
Plot: Atomic scientist/pilot Doug Martin is missing after his plane crashes on an reconnaissance mission after a nuclear test. Miraculously appearing unhurt at the base later, he is given sodium amethol, but authorities are skeptical of his story that he was captured by aliens determined to conquer the Earth with giant monsters and insects. Martin vows to use existing technology to destroy them.
Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The producers would like to acknowledge the Hopi and Navajo people. Their land, culture and humor enlightened us throughout the making of "The Dark Wind."
Goofs: We know about 5 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Factual errors: When the alien scientist is showing Dr. Martin their energy storage system, he says theyve stored "several trillion electron volts (eV)" of energy. While an eV is a unit of energy, it is a very small one. One trillion eV would be enough energy to power a 100 Watt lightbulb for slightly over one million-millionth of a second (1.6 pSec to be more precise). Dr. Martin (as a nuclear scientist) would have known this was a small amount of energy, so it cant be put off as the alien misusing unfamiliar terms.
Trivia: There are 6 entries in the trivia list - like these:
All Genres: Sci-Fi, Thriller, Horror
Release Year: 1954
Country: USA
Runtime: 71
Rating: 4.8 (0)
Languages: English
Director: W. Lee Wilder
Sound: Mono
Taglines:
Writing by: William Raynor - (screenplay) (as Bill Raynor)
Myles Wilder - (story)
Produced by: Fred M. Muller - associate producer
W. Lee Wilder - producer
Cast: Peter Graves - Dr. Douglas Martin
James Seay - Col. Banks
Steve Pendleton - Briggs, FBI
Frank Gerstle - Dr. Curt Kruger (as Frank Gerstel)
John Frederick - Denab / The Tala (as John Merrick)
Barbara Bestar - Ellen Martin
Shepard Menken - Maj. Clift - MD (as Shep Menken)
Jack Daly - Power House Guard
Ron Kennedy - Sgt. Powers, Sentry
Ben Welden - Tar Baby 2 Pilot
Burt Wenland - Sergeant Bandero
Music: Manuel Compinsky
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline: A scientist monitoring atomic tests, killed in a plane crash, is revived by aliens so he can spy on the tests and help them conquer the world.
Plot: Atomic scientist/pilot Doug Martin is missing after his plane crashes on an reconnaissance mission after a nuclear test. Miraculously appearing unhurt at the base later, he is given sodium amethol, but authorities are skeptical of his story that he was captured by aliens determined to conquer the Earth with giant monsters and insects. Martin vows to use existing technology to destroy them.
Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The producers would like to acknowledge the Hopi and Navajo people. Their land, culture and humor enlightened us throughout the making of "The Dark Wind."
Goofs: We know about 5 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Factual errors: When the alien scientist is showing Dr. Martin their energy storage system, he says theyve stored "several trillion electron volts (eV)" of energy. While an eV is a unit of energy, it is a very small one. One trillion eV would be enough energy to power a 100 Watt lightbulb for slightly over one million-millionth of a second (1.6 pSec to be more precise). Dr. Martin (as a nuclear scientist) would have known this was a small amount of energy, so it cant be put off as the alien misusing unfamiliar terms.
Trivia: There are 6 entries in the trivia list - like these:
- Remade as The Ten Commandments (1956), again by Cecil B. DeMille.
- The effect of the parting of the Red Sea was created by placing two blocks of blue gelatin side-by-side, heating them until they melted...then running the footage in reverse.
- The Egyptian set seen in the prologue was, in reality, an enormous construction, and was actually considerably larger than the Babylon sets in D.W. Griffiths Intolerance: Loves Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916), to which they are often compared.
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