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Title First man into space / Amalgamated Productions ; screenplay by John C. Cooper and Lance Z. Hargreaves ; original story by Wyott Ordung ; produced by John Croydon and Charles Vetter, Jr. ; directed by Robert Day.

Publication Info. [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, 2006.
1959.

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Location Call No. Status
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Media Room  DVD FIRST    Check Shelf
Description 1 videodisc (77 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in..
Series The Criterion collection ; 365
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 365.
System Details DVD; region 1, NTSC; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.
Cast Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi, Robert Ayers, Bill Nagy, Carl Jaffe, Bill Edwards, Roger Delgado, John McLaren, Helen Forest, Michael Bell, William R. Nick, Richard Shaw, John Fabian, Barry Shawzin, Mark Sheldon, Sheree Winton, Spencer Teakle, Chuck Keyser, Rowland Brand, Franklyn Fox, Laurence Taylor.
Credits Editor, Peter Mayhew ; wardrobe, Charles Guerin ; Miss Landi's dresses supervised by Anna Selby-Walker ; music composed and conducted by Buxton Orr ; electronic effects, Sound Drama ; director of photography, Geoffrey Faithfull.
Note Originally released as a motion picture in 1959.
Also issued as part of collection: Monsters and madmen.
Summary In this interstellar cautionary tale, brash U.S. Navy test pilot Dan Prescott, hungry for fame, rockets himself beyond Earth's atmosphere, only to become encrusted with cosmic dust and return a blood-drinking monster.
Note Special features: Optional commentary with producer Richard Gordon and writer Tom Weaver; Making Space; Radio spots; Exploitation!
Language English dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Test pilots -- Drama.
Outer space -- Exploration -- Drama.
Monsters -- Drama.
Genre/Form Science fiction films.
Feature films.
Subject Air pilots -- Drama.
Added Author Day, Robert, 1922-2017
Cooper, John C., 1907-1994.
Vetter, Charles (Charles F.)
Ordung, Wyott.
Faithfull, Geoffrey.
Croydon, John J., 1907-1994.
Thompson, Marshall, 1925-1992.
Landi, Marla, 1933-
Ayers, Robert, 1914-1968.
Nagy, Bill, 1900-1973.
Jaffe, Carl, 1902-1974.
Edwards, Bill, 1933-
Delgado, Roger, 1918-1973.
McLaren, John, 1911-
Orr, Buxton.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Amalgamated Productions Inc.
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Added Title Monsters and madmen.
ISBN 1934121169
9781934121160
1934121150
9781934121153
Music No. CC1673D Criterion Collection
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