Plan 9 from Outer Space
About Plan 9 from Outer Space
Aliens Eros and Tanna want to stop humans from building a weapon that could destroy the universe. Their Plan 9 is to raise the dead and force the living to listen. In California an old man dies the day after his wife is buried. The aliens raise both of them, and Inspector Clay after the couple kills him. A colonel, a police lieutenant, a pilot, the pilot's wife, and a policeman try to stop the saucers.
Cast & crew
More about Plan 9 from Outer Space
Ed Wood wrote, produced, directed, and edited it. William C. Thompson photographed it. It was shot in November 1956. A preview played on March 15, 1957, at the Carlton Theatre in Los Angeles under the title Grave Robbers from Outer Space. It went out in 1957 on a double bill with Time Lock, reached a wider southern release in July 1958, and had a Los Angeles showing on July 22, 1959, under the Plan 9 title. Distributors Corporation of America handled it. It runs 79 minutes. Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Tor Johnson, and Maila Nurmi as Vampira star. Criswell narrates. Bela Lugosi, who had died in August 1956, appears in silent footage Wood had already shot. Tom Mason doubles him.
Themes
Making
Wood cut silent Lugosi footage into the new scenes and had Tom Mason, holding a cape across his face, stand in for the rest.
Look
William C. Thompson shot the cemetery, the saucers, and the Lugosi inserts.
Preservation
A copy is on the Internet Archive.
Notes
- The preview title was Grave Robbers from Outer Space.
- Lyle Talbot and Tom Keene are in the cast. Duke Moore plays the inspector side of the police.
- It was sold to television in 1961.
- In The Golden Turkey Awards (1980), Harry and Michael Medved named the film the worst ever and Wood the worst director.
- A copy is on the Internet Archive as Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959.
Scenes
- The old man and his wife come out of the graves.
- Tom Mason, cape across his face, walks through scenes shot after Lugosi's death.
Also available
- Internet Archive (Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959)
