It

Last night, we fired up PlayOn and watched some Hulu goodness.  Turns out they have a number of old MGM SciFi movies.  We decided to watch It! The Terror From Beyond Space.

It! is a classic 1950s Sci-Fi film but in all my years, I had never seen it.  I had recently read that it was one of the influences on Ridley Scott's Alien but until I'd seen It!, I didn't know just how much.

Marshall Thompson, the pride and joy of Peoria, Illinois, plays Col. Edward Carruthers to great affect. He’s a very strong 1950s style hero/love interest. Yes, of course, the pretty female crew member, played by Shawn Smith, not only respects the Colonel’s authority but she falls for him in the end.

As for the alien itself, It’s not the greatest screen alien but Ray “Crash” Corrigan, in his last screen role, plays it to the hilt, portraying the seemingly unstoppable It.

We get explosives wired to the ventilation system, a creature who terrorizes the crew right outside the ship’s main deck and when it seems all is lost, the Colonel opens a door to the outside which creates a vacuum that sucks the creature out into space.

As I said, It! is a classic 1950s alien Sci-Fi film and It is sure a lot of fun.