| Not of This Earth | |
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| Directed by | Roger Corman |
| Written by | Charles B. Griffith Mark Hanna |
| Produced by | Roger Corman |
| Starring | Paul Birch Beverly Garland Morgan Jones William Roerick Anna Lee Carroll |
| Cinematography | John J. Mescall |
| Edited by | Charles Gross |
| Music by | Ronald Stein |
Production company | Los Altos Productions |
| Distributed by | Allied Artists |
Release date |
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Running time | 67 minutes (General release) 70 minutes (Television edit) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $100,000[1] or $85,000[2] |
| Box office | $1 million[1] or (double bill) $800,000[2] |
Not of This Earth is an independently made 1957 American black-and-white science fiction film produced and directed by Roger Corman (for his Los Altos Productions), that stars Paul Birch, Beverly Garland, Morgan Jones, William Roerick, and Anna Lee Carroll. The film was written by Charles B. Griffith and Mark Hanna and was distributed by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation as a double feature with Attack of the Crab Monsters.[3] Its theatrical release had a running time of 67 minutes, that was expanded to 70 minutes in 1962 for TV syndication.
The storyline concerns the attempts by an extraterrestrial humanoid to surreptitiously secure the blood of humans and to test it on himself as a treatment for a fatal blood disorder which is ravaging the population of his home planet, Davanna.[4]
- ^ a b Alan Frank, The Films of Alan Frank: Shooting My Way Out of Trouble, Bath Press, 1998 p 36
- ^ a b "Gimmicks did well in 1957". Variety. 6 November 1957. p. 6.
- ^ McGee, Mark Thomas; Robertson, R.J. (2013). "You Won't Believe Your Eyes". Bear Manor Media. ISBN 978-1-59393-273-2. Page 254
- ^ Rovin, Jeff (1987). The Encyclopedia of Supervillains. New York: Facts on File. p. 259. ISBN 0-8160-1356-X.