Watch the Skies! (The Cosmic Man / The Flying Saucer / Stranger From Venus)

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Look up to the stars... for we are not alone! First THE COSMIC MAN arrives in a strange spherical spaceship. Is he here to destroy the world or bring it peace? Humanity stands in the balance in this powerful and engaging sci-fi saga with John Carradine, inspired by The Day the Earth Stood Still. Then a STRANGER FROM VENUS has the power of life and death at his touch, and Academy Award-winner Patricia Neal is a woman caught up in the biggest event in history in this touching and haunting story of "first contact" with a peaceful and advanced intelligence from another planet. Finally, America and Russia race against the clock in a thrill-packed contest to capture THE FLYING SAUCER hidden in the uncharted, avalanche-prone wastelands of Alaska. After experiencing these three fantastic tales of Cold War-era visitors from another world, you'll never look through a telescope the same way again!

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just not that good!!!.......2006-06-24

i really wanted to like these movies,i really did,but they are just not very good! the transfersare ok,not great,but ok it's the three movies that just aren't any good.

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Review of Cosmic Man film.
COSMIC ENJOYMENT!!!
Sure looks bad for Dr. Sorenson and the cosmic man
Ghost Creature From Space
Ho-hum, another wise guy from space.

The Cosmic Man
Starring: John Carradine , Bruce Bennett , Angela Greene , Paul Langton , and Scotty Morrow
Director: Herbert S. Greene
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
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ASIN: B00004Y7HG
Release Date: 2000-10-17

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Virtually The Day the Earth Stood Still retold, The Cosmic Man is another moralistic antiwar film with a kindly, intelligent alien who makes the U.S. Army look like destructive dunderheads. Bruce Bennett stars as the Robert Oppenheimer-type scientist who feels guilty about having created the atomic bomb and is now cautious about the relationship between science and the military. He's called in to investigate a mysterious floating white sphere believed to be from outer space. John Carradine is the helpful alien the army brass wants to exploit until they begin to fear his superior powers. Bennett fights to understand and save the Cosmic Man from trigger-happy soldiers and toady scientists. The special effects are charming because of their cheapness. The Cosmic Man first appears in negative but passes himself off as human by wearing a trench coat and kooky glasses with eyes painted on them. Add to that some hams in supporting actor roles and occasionally ridiculous dialogue. Look for Griffith Park Observatory doubling as a science lab! --Margaret Griffis

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His hypnotic eyes see all! An Atomic Age thriller, "The Cosmic Man" is about a strange spherical spaceship that arrives on Earth, bringing with it a benevolent alien being from beyond the stars--a being that exists in the negative world of shadows. Is he here to destroy the world or bring it peace? Humanity stands in the balance. A powerful and engaging sci-fi saga, inspired by "The Day the Earth Stood Still." Starring legendary horror star John Carradine as the dark, mysterious Cosmic Man, this is one of the great fifties drive-in theater classics that thrilled teenagers of the "Ozzie and Harriet" generations.

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Review of Cosmic Man film........2007-03-09

I believe that this film does have a significant message even for people in the early part of the 21st century. Destruction of what you do not understand is not in the best interest of society. Listen to what other people of various races and cultures have to teach. We can all learn something from other people and cultures. The message that war is destructive to all societies is never an old message.

COSMIC ENJOYMENT!!!.......2007-02-12

Actually saw this in a theater in the early 1960's...Loved it, as any reader of FAMOUS MONSTERS magazine would...Bought the dvd & it brought back past memories, especially the FLOATING ALIEN SPACE_SPHERE (GLOBE/BALL?)...whatever.
Good sci-fi entry in the mode of THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, enjoyable & family watchable!!!...Recommemded for fans of this sort of stuff (...like me).

Sure looks bad for Dr. Sorenson and the cosmic man.......2006-06-25

An unidentified object is tracked going at extreme speeds around the globe. A mysterious object is found in Bronson Canyon (a real location used in the filming of "Robot Monster" 1953). Naturally the military is antsy and request a top scientist Dr. Karl Sorenson (Bruce Bennett) investigate.

All the elements are there with the three-way love interest between the widowed mother Kathy Grant (Angela Greene) of a crippled kid Ken (Scotty Morrow), scientist Dr. Sorenson and military Col. Matthews (Paul Langton.) They must speculate on the good bad and ugly of their mysterious invader (John Carradine).

An added plus is the fun of seeing the technology of the time this film was made. And a vintage look at the Griffith Park Observatory. Too bad they did not show the inside as there is a nifty pendulum that swings with the rotation of the earth.

We are in luck as we get two space speeches before the conclusion. Will we head the warning or is this the end?

Ghost Creature From Space.......2004-01-23

While watching The Cosmic Man, I couldn't help but notice the extreme similarities to the much better movie, The Day The Earth Stood Still, which was released eight years prior in 1951. The movie's main star, John Carradine, plays the enigmatic cosmic man.

Anyway, this low budget movie starts with reports from various locations on the Earth of a mysterious, flying object. This object, which turns out to be a giant, interstellar gumball, lands in a place called Bronson Canyon, a place many movie fans may recognize as it was used quite often throughout the years in such movies as Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Robin Hood (1922), and The Searchers (1956), to name a few. Well, the giant, space gumball doesn't really land, but hovers in one spot, never actually touching the ground. The theory of anti-gravity is posed, and I am sure this probably sounded a lot cooler back in 1959 than it does now, almost fifty years later.

The military tries to throw a blanket of secrecy over this astounding event, but word gets out in the local community anyway, as they have a party line phone system. The military does cordon off the area, and a scientist, the renowned Dr. Karl Sorenson, one of the scientists involved in the creation of the atomic bomb, is called in to help decide what to do with the enigmatic candy-like object from space. (I'm serious, every time I saw this ship, I thought it was the world's largest jawbreaker.) We soon see the appearance of a plot thread so worn it's transparent as the civilian scientist has a ideology clash with the head military types in that the military believes this could be the beginning of an invasion (which is quite sensible and reasonable, in my opinion), and the possibilities of new technology to create newer, more powerful weapons. The civilian scientist is more concerned with knowledge and believes if beings from space possessed the power of interstellar travel, they could surely wipe the humans out easily. His speculation leads him to think this ship and whatever occupants it may contain are here for more peaceful purposes.

Soon an unnoticed beam on light emits from the space object, and the Cosmic Man makes his appearance...sort of. He is somewhat invisible, but makes an inordinate amount of sound moving around, so we know he's there. Later he does appear in a shadowy form, kind of see though, like the plot, and then later he shows up in a very solid form in clothes he stole from someone. This cosmic man fluctuates between these three states of being, based on his mood, I guess. I think some reason was given as to why, but I was still trying to wrap my mind around the concept of this notion of anti-gravity, so I probably missed it.

Well, the military starts to try and move the space ship, to no avail, and then tries to break into the ship, again, with no luck, while the scientist gathers clues to support that there was an inhabitant of the ship, and he has left and is now walking about freely. Things go on this way for awhile, and there is a sort of subplot involving a widowed woman and her disabled son that was really corny. Events finally do come to a head as the cosmic man makes his appearance known, and the military leaders become hostile at what they don't know or understand. A great effort was spent basically showing how ignorant the military and the average civilian is when it comes to the unknown compared against the value of what could be learned by those in the altruistic scientific community.

Does the cosmic man come in peace? Or does he herald an invasion of unstoppable flesh eating aliens out to steal our women? The print presented by Image Entertainment looks great, but there are no extras except for a few trailers. Oh yeah, there are many sort of unintentionally funny moments in this movie, but my favorite was when someone would mention the main female character's deceased husband and she would get this far away look on her face. I think it was supposed to represent longing and remembrance, but it appeared to me as a momentary lapse of brain function. Not a bad sci-fi movie, but not a great one, either, as it's plagued with wooden performances, predictable and corny plots, and a ham fisted delivery of a message I already got from a much better movie made eight years prior to this release.

Ho-hum, another wise guy from space........2002-09-30

A rather obvious rip-off of THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, this dreary SF effort gives us John Carradine as a grim wise guy (oops, I mean wise man) from another planet who arrives on Earth to give us the usual warning, while befriending a child as a sideline. His spaceship looks like a giant golf ball, and his major weirdness is that he often appears in negative form. Carradine is good in the title role, but the film is otherwise a dud.

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Stranger from Venus/The Cosmic Man
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Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
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Release Date: 2003-12-30

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