![]() ![]() He plays a soldier, as does Jonathan Haze (Seymour in 'Little Shop Of Horrors) 'It Conquered The World' isn't up to the standards of such 1950s SF classics as 'The Incredible Shrinking Man' or 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers', but it's lots of fun, and I recommend it to anyone who enjoys b-grade movies from this period. Garland is best known to most people for her later work on TV (e.g.'My Three Sons'), but boy is she sexy here! Hubba! Hubba! Being a Corman movie we shouldn't be surprised to see Dick Miller in the supporting cast. He co-operates with the alien, helping it to try and take over the world. ![]() When Van Cleef intercepts messages from an extraterrestrial that only he can hear, his wife (Beverly Garland) and Graves think he is cracking up. Graves is his more level headed colleague. ![]() Van Cleef gives an intense performance as a scientist obsessed with communication with aliens. Phelps in 'Mission: Impossible', and Van Cleef became a Western icon via his work in movies such as 'The Good, The Bad And The Ugly' and 'Death Rides A Horse'. Graves later became immortal on TV as Mr. The two leads are Peter Graves and Lee Van Cleef. It's also helped enormously by having an above average cast. The Venusian monster and the flying bat things will probably inspire fits of giggles in most people, but despite all that the movie has lots of energy and it hooks you straight in. So okay, it a low budget movie (and I mean LOW), it's very naive and the special effects are poor. His early reputation mainly rests on his quickie monster movies, and 'It Conquered The World' is one of the most entertaining. In fact, some of the movies he directed were better than just "good" e.g. A lot of people slam Roger Corman and try and act like every movie he made was worthless schlock, but while he definitely did make a few stinkers in his long career, the truth is that he was involved with more good than bad movies, either as a director or a producer. ![]()
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