Wrapping up 2022
Hunkered down in the depths of winter, I spent a lot of December immersed in genre movies from around the world – it’s a dizzying mix of violence, perversion and unexpected cinematic […]
Review: 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)
Director: Nathan H. Juran
Cast: William Hopper, Joan Taylor, Frank Puglia, John Zaremba, Thomas Browne Henry,
William Hopper
Joan Taylor
Frank Puglia
John Zaremba
Thomas Browne Henry
Plot: When the first manned flight to Venus returns to Earth, the rocket crash-lands in the Mediterranean near a small Italian fishing village. The locals manage to save one of the astronauts Colonel Calder, the mission commander. A young boy also recovers what turns out to be a specimen of an alien creature. Growing at a fantastic rate, it manages to escape and eventually threatens the city of Rome.
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