![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This British film is a good example of how intelligence and care can be very adequate substitutes for big budgets and endless CGI. It was made in the sixties but I can watch it again and again while bloated modern sci-fi films are seen and soon forgotten. It is a low key film and the people in, in the face of something alien, get on with their jobs as best they can. This makes them more like real people than a lot of films do. Each one is fallible and anxious, trying to cope with the unknown. They find a strange object in a nearby field. After finding the smouldering fuse box, they head into the woods to investigate a transformer which is throwing sparks. Edward Judd is his usual morose self but is a plausible doctor. A power cut interrupts festivities Tommy and his older brothers Kurt and Brian go outside to investigate. Valerie Gearon as another doctor is great. The scene where she is discovered sprawling on the carpet, reading a text book and listening to music makes you warm to her instantly. She was an under used actor in British films. ![]() The plot is simple a strange man in a rubbery suit is knocked down in the road, taken to hospital and discovered to be an alien. Meanwhile two other aliens are searching for him. The atmosphere of suspense is quietly conveyed by the lighting and the black and white photography.Īt one point a force field is established around the hospital. There is no CGI to show this but car stops dead and kills the driver, the temperature goes up, the hospital workers react. ![]()
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