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During an atom bomb test, an observatory plan has a failure &
crashes onto the ground head-on. The pilot dies, naturally, but the
plane's passenger, nuclear scientist Dr Martin (Peter Graves) survives,
unscathed ... which pretty much keeps everyone, including his employers -
the army - & tghe FBI totally baffled. What's more, he suddenly shows
a suture from surgery that wasnT'there previously, & by all logic
shouldn't have healed by now. Soon, too, Martin starts to behave
strangely, & is consequently suspended from his job (understandable
with the Cold War on & him working in a rather sensible field ...). However,
it is easy for a nuclear scientist to get his hands on nuclear secrets
& hand them to the enemy (whoever that is), it is much harder though
to get away afterwards, & so Martin soon has a carcrash ... Waking
up in hospital, he is subjected to a truthserum & tells ... well, the
truth: Actually he didn't survive the plane crash after all (& can
you blame him, the plane went to the ground head-on after all), but he was
saved by the Astrons, humanoid aliens with ping pong ball eyes, who
treated him to a heart transplant & who want to conquer the earth with
enlarged spiders & lizards, but who think some nuclear secrets might
come in pretty handy, so they have forced him to delifer them. Be that
as it may, nobody seems to believe him (& can you blame them), &
when Martin begs his friends & gformer employers to help him fight the
Astrons, they refuse, even if it wouldn't take much more than turning off
the power for a mere ten seconds ... So Martin escapes the hospital he
is held at, heads for the powerstation & forces one of its employees
to turn off the power at gunpoint, whikle the army & the FBI havwe
already closed in on him. But when they all see the alien HQ (they didn't
even believe in beforehands) go up in a blast just like ha has predicted,
he is proved to be right after all, & once more the world is saved ... Taking
itself dead seriously & done in an almost documentary-like style, this
movie nevertheless can't escape coming across totally hokey - & the
ping pong ball eyed aliens & blown up shots of lizards & spiders
contribute greatly to that end. However, while it's not the serious film
it (maybe) attempted to be, it's still fun - for precisely that reason.
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