FIRST MAN INTO SPACE

FIRST MAN INTO SPACE
   Film (1958). Amalgamated/MGM. Dir Robert Day, starring Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi, Robert Ayres, Bill Edwards. Screenplay John C. Cooper, Lance Z. Hargreaves, from "Satellite of Blood" by Wyott Ordung. 77 mins. B/w.
   This is the second of two sf films made by Amalgamated in the UK that pretend to be set in the USA (the other was FIEND WITHOUT A FACE (1957)). FMIS seems to imitate The QUATERMASS XPERIMENT (1955; vt The Creeping Unknown): a test pilot ejects from his high-flying aeroplane and returns to Earth enveloped in a repulsive, crusty substance that turns him into an inhuman, blood-drinking monster (the blood giving him the oxygen he needs!). As in the Quatermass film, there are moments of pathos, but FMIS isgenerally derivative and routine. Released around the time of the first orbital satellites, FMIS, with its deceptive title, must have lured audiences expecting something scientific and quasidocumentary; indeed, despite its lurid content, it is soberly and stiffly directed.
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