Pianeta degli uomini spenti, Il (Battle of the Worlds) is an Italian science-fiction film released in 1961. An English-dubbed version was released in the United States in 1963. The film was directed by Antonio Margheriti and starred Claude Raines, Bill Carter and Maya Brent.
Dr. Fred Steele (Umberto Orsini) and Eve Barnett (Maya Brent) work together at an astronomical station on a bucolic island. Steele has just had his request for a transfer app...
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Pianeta degli uomini spenti, Il (Battle of the Worlds) is an Italian science-fiction film released in 1961. An English-dubbed version was released in the United States in 1963. The film was directed by Antonio Margheriti and starred Claude Raines, Bill Carter and Maya Brent.
Dr. Fred Steele (Umberto Orsini) and Eve Barnett (Maya Brent) work together at an astronomical station on a bucolic island. Steele has just had his request for a transfer approved, and he and Eve look forward to leaving the island and getting married. However, their budding romance is quickly put on hold as the station's scientists learn they must deal with a rogue planet -- "The Outsider" -- that has entered the solar system, and which is on a collision course with Earth. The brilliant but cantankerous Professor Benson (Claude Rains), living in an adjacent greenhouse with his dog Gideon, predicts that the Outsider will not strike the Earth but will simply make a close pass -- a prediction that no other scientist...
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