Starring Kent Taylor, Marie Windsor, William Mims, Betty Beall, Lowell Brown
Directed by Maury Dexter
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
After successfully landing an unmanned space probe on the planet Mars, a scientist returns home to California to be with his family, not realizing an intelligence from Mars has followed him there.
This film has a lot going for it, from an impressively staged opening scene on Mars, to a terrific musical score from Richard La Salle, to some suspenseful sequences in the film's primary setting, an isolated Beverly Hills estate filled with foreboding angles and maze-like shrubbery. Obviously filmed on a limited budget, Dexter and his crew make the most of what they have, and very successfully, but just as the film seems headed into an exciting third act, it abruptly ends. One can't help but wonder if the filmmakers ran out of money, and if so, that's a terrible shame, because with a few added scenes it could have earned a place among the classic sci-fi chillers.
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