Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Age rating
- G
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for twenty years. They find themselves unwelcome by the expedition's lone survivor and warned of destruction by an invisible force if they don't turn back immediately.
- flying saucer
- rescue mission
- space
- alien planet
- robot
- sabotage
- mysterious death
- alien civilization
- lone survivor
- extinct race
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Walter Pidgeon
Dr. Edward Morbius
Anne Francis
Altaira Morbius
Leslie Nielsen
Commander John J. Adams
Warren Stevens
Lt. 'Doc' Ostrow
- Jack Kelly — Lt. Jerry Farman
- Earl Holliman — Cookie
- Richard Anderson — Chief Engineer Quinn
- George D. Wallace — Bosun
- Robert Dix — Crewman Grey
- Jimmy Thompson — Crewman Youngerford
- James Drury — Crewman Strong
- Harry Harvey Jr. — Crewman Randall
- Roger McGee — Crewman Lindstrom
- Peter Miller — Crewman Moran
- Morgan Jones — Crewman Nichols
- Directed
- Fred M. Wilcox
- Written
- Cyril Hume, Allen Adler, Irving Block
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 1,074 ratings
- Studio
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
