Devil Girl from Mars (1954)

Director:

David MacDonald

Writers:

James Eastwood (writer)
John C. Mather (play)

Release Date:

27 April 1955 (USA)

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Invasion from Outer Space!...Sights too weird to imagine! Destruction too monstrous to escape!

Plot:

An uptight, leather-clad female alien, armed with a raygun and accompanied by a menacing robot, comes...

Plot Keywords:

Inn | Isolation | Killer Robot | Dominatrix | Flying Saucer

Cast

Hugh McDermott	...	Michael Carter
Hazel Court	...	Ellen Prestwick
Peter Reynolds	...	Robert Justin, alias Albert Simpson
Adrienne Corri	...	Doris
Joseph Tomelty	...	Prof. Arnold Hennessey
Sophie Stewart	...	Mrs. Jamieson
John Laurie	...	Mr. Jamieson
Patricia Laffan	...	Nyah

Runtime:

USA:77 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

USA:Approved (certificate number not listed) | Sweden:15

Filming Locations:

Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UK

Company:

Danziger Productions Ltd.

Trivia:

This film is listed among The 100 Most Amusingly Bad Movies Ever Made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book THE OFFICIAL RAZZIE® MOVIE GUIDE.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When the "indestructable" robot Chanti leaves the spaceship, a close-up of his feet reveals paint scraping off where the joints of the suit and the boots meet.

Quotes:

Michael Carter: Mrs. Jamieson, may I introduce your latest guest. Miss Nyah. She comes from Mars.
Mrs. Jamieson: Oh, well, that'll mean another bed.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Svengoolie: Devil Girl from Mars (#1.13)" (1995)

Court And Sparks

I'd been wanting to see this classick Brit piece of sci-fi for many decades, and must say that it was almost worth the wait. This flick is almost like a poor man's "Day the Earth Stood Still," except that instead of Michael Rennie, we get a British lassy playing some kind of Martian dominatrix, and instead of the wonderful Gort, we get one of the most lumbering and ridiculous-looking robots in film history. Still, the acting is fair, especially the always wonderful Hazel Court, and the effects pretty cool...especially the incredible explosion at the film's end. All in all, not the worst time killer that one could imagine, and a must for all fans of British sci-fi and/or Martian dominatrix movies.