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    Strange World of Planet X, The (1958)

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    A cheap British excursion into the realm of science fiction which provides a good deal of suspense as well as downright horror.

    Forrest Tucker stars as American scientist Gil Graham who – along with Dr Laird (Alec Mango) – is using large amounts of power to experiment on magnetic fields which accidentally opens up a hole in the ionosphere, leading to blasts of cosmic radiation and, eventually, a plague of outsized locusts, beetles, centipedes and spiders.

    Martin Benson – one of television’s ‘professional villains’ – provides the film’s biggest surprise.

    The film was initially unsuccessful at the box office but became something of a cult favourite due to later television syndication.

    Released in some markets as The Cosmic Monster and Cosmic Monsters.

    Gil Graham
    Forrest Tucker
    Michele Dupont
    Gaby André
    Smith
    Martin Benson
    Dr Laird
    Alec Mango
    Brigadier Cartwright
    Wyndham Goldie
    Jimmy Murray
    Hugh Latimer
    Mrs Tucker
    Dandy Nichols
    Inspector Burns
    Richard Warner
    Helen Forsyth
    Patricia Sinclair
    Gerard Wilson
    Geoffrey Chater
    Mrs Hale
    Hilda Fenemore
    Jane Hale
    Susan Redway

    Director
    Gilbert Gunn

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