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Child's Point Of View | Spacecraft
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Best Dramatic Presentation | 1954
Budget 290,000 USD
Luce Potter, one of the Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz (1939), played the Martian "head" enclosed in glass in the film. For years she received letters from fans of the movie telling her how much she had scared them as kids.
The special effects department used condoms to create the "bubbles" on the walls of the underground tunnels.
The genesis of this film was when the wife of writer John Tucker Battle woke him up one morning to recount a vivid and disturbing dream she had of Martians invading Earth. He had her tell him as much as she could recall, and he developed the rest of the story from there.
In one scene, Dr. Kelston refers to the "Lubbock Lights" and to a "Captain Mantell." These were-real life U.F.O. events that created a nationwide sensation in their day. The photographs shown by Dr. Kelston are actual photographs of the Lubbock Lights that appeared in newspapers and magazines.
Several well-known actors appear in very small parts. Among them are: Todd Karns playing Jimmy the gas station attendant, who was also in It's a Wonderful Life (1946) as Harry Bailey; Lock Martin as the Martian mutant carrying little David in the underground tunnel, who played Gort the robot in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951); Milburn Stone, who played an army officer searching the sand dunes with a detector to locate the underground Martians, and who later played Doc Adams on the long-running western series Gunsmoke (1955); Barbara Billingsley, playing Dr. Kelston's secretary who was also Mrs. Cleaver in Leave It to Beaver (1957); Robert Shayne, who plays a scientist almost killed by the Martians and played Inspector Henderson on Adventures of Superman (1952); and Douglas Kennedy, who plays a policeman taken over by the Martians and who also had his own western series, Steve Donovan, Western Marshal (1955).
"Mary MacLean: [waking up] What is it? George MacLean: Well, ah, David says something landed in the field out back. It doesn't make sense, but he seems so convinced. Mary MacLean: What do you mean "land"? George MacLean: Well, he says he saw a bright light or something. He's not the type of boy that given to imagining things. After all the work at the plant is secret. And we have orders to report anything unusual. And there have been rumors. Mary MacLean: Rumors? George MacLean: Oh, Dear, you know I can't talk about it."
"Lt. Blair: [about David's parents] That's the coldest couple I ever saw. David Maclean: They're not! They're wonderful, *they've* done something to them, something awful!"
