Media1954

"Killers from Space" released

When: 23 Jan 1954
Sources: 1 public source

Shepard Menken in a scene from Killers from Space (1954) film screenshot (RKO Radio Pictures), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

RKO released Killers from Space, a W. Lee Wilder film in which a scientist whose plane crashes near an atomic test wakes in an underground lair of bug-eyed aliens who have operated on him. It is an early screen version of a medical-examination abduction story.

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OtherKillers from Space (1954) catalog entry (opens in a new tab)American Film Institute (AFI Catalog of Feature Films)

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