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'This Island Earth' premieres

When: 10 Jun 1955
Where: New York, NY
Sources: 1 public source

The Victoria Theatre's ad for the New York premiere of This Island Earth, June 10, 1955 Universal-International, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Universal-International's Technicolor science-fiction film, in which an alien recruits Earth scientists for his war-torn planet Metaluna, had its world premiere in New York. It was one of the bigger-budget entries in the 1950s alien-film cycle.

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OtherThis Island Earth (1955) (opens in a new tab)AFI Catalog of Feature Films

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