'Plan 9 from Outer Space' released

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Film poster for Plan 9 from Outer Space
A poster for Ed Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) Distributors Corporation of America, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Ed Wood's low-budget film, in which saucer-flying aliens raise the dead to stop Earth's nuclear weapons, was released by Distributors Corporation of America. Long mocked, it became a cult emblem of 1950s flying-saucer cinema.

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  1. OtherPlan 9 from Outer Space (1959) (opens in a new tab)AFI Catalog of Feature Films

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