The 49th Man
A long string of
black paper men cut out for the credits, a hot rod kid in New Mexico is the first, his wreck discloses elements of an atomic bomb.
Marseilles for
the source...
Harry
Essex out of Ivan Tors. It will be seen as a preparation (most
particularly aboard the U.S. Navy submarine Nomeus) for Frankenheimer’s
Seven Days in May, also rather curiously
The Train in passing.
“Imagine
having the organization right here in Washington.”
Leonard
Maltin, “decent but unexceptional.” TV Guide,
“fast-paced and entertaining.”
Evidently
a major influence on Siegel’s Invasion
of the Body Snatchers (cf. “The
Chequers Manoeuvre”
for Thirty-Minute Theatre, dir. Christopher
Barry).
Cf.
also Panic in the City (dir. Eddie
Davis).
Zito’s Invasion U.S.A. has a beautiful analysis
that can’t be beat.
A rocket
scientist interrupts his satellite launch program to marry,
his former secretary now keeps his mind on the ball.
Instantly the cosmic
lid is lowered on his passion.
Her
father’s brains are mined for the alien effort.
The Capitol crumbles, the rocket scientist’s anti-magnetic ray gun
drops the interlopers.
Husband and wife
go to the beach.
Utah Blaine
“I wanta go out and see what a town looks like when it grows
up.”
A classic Western
in the mold of Robert N. Bradbury by a director with a particular genius for
night filters among other things.
Case
of the big combine a front for
one man’s ambition, his vigilantes hang ranch owners and he takes
possession.
The
mirror to this, a turncoat south of the border.
Leonard
Maltin, “undistinguished”. TV Guide,
“routine”. Hal
Erickson (Rovi), “pinch-penny”.
From Louis
L’Amour.
