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I Married a Monster from Outer Space
USA 1958
produced by
Gene Fowler jr for Paramount
directed by Gene Fowler jr
starring Gloria Talbott, Tom Tryon, Peter Baldwin, Robert Ivers, Chuck Wassil, Ty Hardin, Ken Lynch, John Eldredge, Alan Dexter, James Anderson, Jean Carson, Jack Orrison, Steve London, Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom, Valerie Allen, Tony Di Milo, Darlene Fields, Charles Gemora
written by Lewis Vittes, special photographic effects by John P.Fulton
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Coming home from his bachelor party, Bill (Tom Tryon) is turned into an
alien. It takes his wife Marge (Gloria Talbott) a whole year though to
find out there's something wrong with him, but one night she sneaks after
him to see him enter a spaceship that's conveniently parked in the nearby
woods. Of course, from this point on, Marge tries to convince everyone
that her hubby's an alien - but fails because most of the male population
has been turned into aliens as well, starting with the chief of police
(John Eldredge). Ultimately, she confronts alien Bill with the truth, and
he admits to everything, telling her his alien race needs the earth women
for breeding purposes, but he also confesses that he has fallen in love
with her, which is quite puzzling for him because so far, the aliens did
not know feelings and the like. Finally, Marge finds an unpossessed man
- obviously in the 1950's you could not trust women to sort out a problem
such as this - Doctor Wayne (Ken Lynch) to take care of the whole thing,
and he organizes an unpossessed search party, finds out the aliens are
allergic to dogs, and ultimately he and his party make it to the alien
ship where they find the original bodies of those possessed, unplug them
from the possession machine and make the possessed doubles of our good
earth people disappear. Then the spaceship blows up and earth is saved
until the next invasion ... The best thing about this film by far
is the title, the rest is a forgettable piece of paranoia cinema that is
as boring as it is derivative (and Invasion of the Body Snatchers
from two years earlier is just one of the film it shamelessly copies
from). Now many paranoia movies from the 1950's have over the years
gathered a certain charm that has more to do with nostalgia than with the
actual quality of the films - but I Married a Monster from Outer Space
hasn't even achieved that, it's just a dull piece of same old same old.
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