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Plan 9 From Outer Space

CastGregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Tor Johnson, Maila Nurmi
Year released1957
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Narrator: "... can your heart stand the shocking facts about grave robbers from outer space?" (0:01)

Mourners at gravesite
Narrator: ”... death is always a shock to those left behind. It is even more of a shock when death... comes without warning... the shadows of grief clouded his very reason. The funeral over, the saddened group left the grave side.” (0:02)

Narrator: "The grief of his wife’s death became greater and greater agony... Confused by his great loss, the old man left that home..." (0:07)

Couple in cemetery
Narrator: "At the funeral of the old man, unknown to his mourners, his dead wife was watching... Then as two of his mourners left his final resting place..." (0:08)

His wife Paula tells pilot Jeff Trent, "I don’t think I’ve ever seen you in this mood before."
Jeff: ”I guess it’s because I’ve never been in this mood before.” (0:12)

The other police officers find Inspector Daniel Clay’s lifeless body. (0:16)

Burial of Clay (0:16)

A soldier asks Col. Tom Edwards, "Are you worried about them, sir?" (0:20)

Paula tells Jeff, "Don’t worry about me."
Jeff: ”Oh, you’re the only thing I do worry about.”
Referring to Paula: ”A crazy kid.” (0:25)

Jeff tells his copilot Danny, "Just that I’m worried... those incidents in the graveyard... It’s just got me worried."
Danny: ”Well, maybe they haven’t figured out those crazy skybirds yet...”
Stewardess Edie tells Jeff: ”If you’re really that worried, why don’t you radio in and find out?”
Danny, referring to Jeff: ”Ah, he’s worried about Paula.” (0:28)

Man walking through cemetery (0:30)

A police officer Larry tells police Lt. John Harper, referring to Paula, "She was hysterical."
Harper: ”Well, true, she was frightened and in a state of shock...” (0:38)

Patrolman Kelton regains consciousness. (0:56)

Harper: "One thing a policeman learns, Mr. Trent, is patience." (1:00)

Paula appears to faint. (1:01)

Alien Eros tells the others, referring to Paula, "She’s only fainted."
”Because all you of Earth are idiots.”
Jeff strikes Eros in the head.
Harper, referring to Eros: ”He’s mad.”
Alien Tanna: ”Mad? Is it mad that you destroy other people to save yourselves?... Is it mad that one country must destroy another to save themselves?... How then is it mad that one planet must destroy another...?” (1:05)

One patrolman tells another, "You sounded drunk or something on the radio."
”Now I know you’re off your rocker.”
Referring to Clay: ”I’m gonna sneak up behind him and whop him over the head.”
When he strikes Clay on the head, Clary falls unconscious. (1:11)

Jeff slugs Eros, then Eros slugs Jeff. Eventually, Eros loses consciousness. (1:15)

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