Target Earth (film)

Target Earth
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Sherman A. Rose
Screenplay by	James H. Nicholson Wyott Ordung William Raynor
Story by	Paul W. Fairman
Produced by	Herman Cohen
Starring	Richard Denning Kathleen Crowley Virginia Grey Richard Reeves Robert Roark Mort Marshall
Cinematography	Guy Roe
Edited by	Sherman A. Rose
Music by	Paul Dunlap
Production companies	Abtcon Pictures, Inc.
Distributed by	Allied Artists Pictures Corporation
Release date	November 7, 1954 (1954-11-07)
Running time	75 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$85,000[1]

Target Earth is a 1954 independently made American black-and-white science fiction film, produced by Herman Cohen, directed by Sherman A. Rose, that stars Richard Denning, Kathleen Crowley, Virginia Grey, and Whit Bissell. The film was distributed by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation. It is based on the Paul W. Fairman novel Deadly City.

Set in a large, deserted city, the film's storyline follows a small group of people overlooked during the city's mass evacuation, carried out because of a sudden invasion by hostile robotic beings believed to be from the planet Venus.