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Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) was a Horror - Science Fiction Film directed by Edward D. Wood Jr. and produced by Edward D. Wood Jr., Charles Burg, J. Edward Reynolds and Hugh Thomas Jr..

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After the Silents: Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)

By Movies, Silently on Jun 4, 2013 From Movies Silently

When you hear about Plan 9 from Outer Space, the first thing you think of is a silent movie, right? No? Well, keep reading! Thrills! Chills! Cardboard headstones! Thrills! Chills! Cardboard headstones! To be honest, I hesitated to write this. Folks have been snickering at bad movies ever since image... Read full article

Plan 9 from Outer Space

By Alexander Diminiano on Jan 20, 2012 From Cinemaniac Reviews

Bottom Line: No less than terrible in the script, acting, and visuals, but somehow entertaining from beginning to end. Directed by: Ed Wood Starring: Bela Lugosi, Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Tom Keene Picture a man (Criswell, the narrator) facing the camera as if ready to give a news report. He ... Read full article

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Plan 9 from Outer Space Quotes:

Inspector Clay: I'm a big boy now, Johnny.
Eros: You do not need guns.
Jeff Trent: Maybe we think we do.
Colonel Tom Edwards: ...Why, a particle of sunlight can't even be seen or measured.
Eros: Can you see or measure an atom? Yet you can *explode* one. A ray of sunlight is made up of *many* atoms!
Jeff Trent: So what if we *do* develop this Solanite bomb? We'd be even a stronger nation than now.
Eros: [with disgust] Stronger. You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
Jeff Trent: That's all I'm taking from you!
[pistol-whips Eros upside the head]
Colonel Tom Edwards: Why is it so important that you want to contact the governments of our earth?
Eros: Because of death. Because all you of Earth are idiots.
Jeff Trent: Now you just hold on, Buster.
Eros: No, you hold on. First was your firecracker, a harmless explosive. Then your hand grenade: you began to kill your own people, a few at a time. Then the bomb. Then a larger bomb: many people are killed at one time. Then your scientists stumbled upon the atom bomb, split the atom. Then the hydrogen bomb, where you actually explode the air itself. Now you can arrange the total destruction of the entire universe served by our sun: The only explosion left is the Solaranite.
Colonel Tom Edwards: Why, there's no such thing.
Jeff Trent: Ah, what's the use of makin' a fuss. Last night I saw a flyin' object that couldn't a possibly been from this planet, but I can't talk about it. I'm muzzled by Army Brass. I can't even admit I saw the thing!
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Plan 9 from Outer Space Facts
Bela Lugosi appears in footage shot just before his death, but with no script in mind. Edward D. Wood Jr. wrote the script to accommodate all the footage shot in a cemetery and outside Tor Johnson's house in the new production. Lugosi was doubled by Tom Mason, Wood's wife's chiropractor, who was significantly taller than Lugosi, and played the part with a cape covering his face.
After an argument with Edward D. Wood Jr., veteran makeup man Harry Thomas insisted that his name not be used in the film's credits. His assistant, Tom Bartholomew, received sole credit.
Bela Lugosi supplied his own costume. He wore one of the capes he used when portraying Dracula on stage.
This film was shot in late 1956 and copyrighted in 1957. It took almost three years to find a distributor who would handle it.
Previewed as "Grave Robbers from Outer Space" at the Carlton Theater in Los Angeles on March 15, 1957, the film went into general release as "Plan 9 from Outer Space" in July of 1959, on a double bill with the British suspense thriller Time Lock, which featured a pre-James Bond Sean Connery.The actual copyright for the film is 1957.
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