NOT OF THIS EARTH ROGER CORMAN 1957-1962 SCI FI EXPANDED TV VERSION INCLUDES EVERYTHING DVD-R!

Not of This Earth is an independently made 1957 American black-and-white science fiction film produced and directed by Roger Corman (for his Los Altos Productions), that stars Paul Birch, Beverly Garland, Morgan Jones, William Roerick, and Anna Lee Carroll. The film was written by Charles B. Griffith and Mark Hanna and was distributed by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation as a double feature with Attack of the Crab Monsters. Its theatrical release had a running time of 67 minutes, that was expanded to 70 minutes in 1962 for TV syndication.

Not of This Earth was released in the United States on the bottom half of a double bill with Corman’s Attack of the Crab Monsters. and the double bill made a 400% profit in its first week. The film was one of a wave of “cheap teenage movies” released for the drive-in market, which consisted of exploitative, cheap fare created especially for teens in a newly-established drive-in genre.

Some release prints of Not of This Earth run 71 minutes instead of the regular 67 minute running time; these include duplicate scenes that the film’s distributor added to the film to lengthen it a bit. For example, a dialogue between Johnson and a representative from Davanna, which appears as a pre-title sequence, is reused again some minutes into the film. This release version has circulated in syndication on U.S. TV stations, 16 mm prints, bootleg videotapes, and DVD-Rs, like this one!

this is the cool TV version of NOT OF THIS EARTH. black & white, mono, fullscreen, 71 minutes, includes the creepy Lynchian teaser intro which is missing from some prints. disc two contains ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS in widescreen. DVD-Rs come packaged as shown in color DVD case, wrapped in plastic!