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| TERROR
FROM THE YEAR 5,000 |
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| Production:
1958 - USA, AIP, b/w, 74 min. |
| Director:
Robert Gurney Jr. |
| Screenwriter:
Robert Gurney Jr. |
| Cast:
Joyce
Holden, Ward Costello, Frederic Downs, John Stratton, Fred Herricks, Salome
Jens,
Beatrice Furdeaux, Jack Diamond, Fred Taylor |
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While Professor Howard Erling (Frederic Downs) is
perfecting a time machine, his assistant Victor (John Stratton) impatiently
wants to test of the possibilities of the device and brings into the present
time a horribly disfigured woman, from a future dimension in which there
are epidemics of every kind, caused by a nuclear war. The woman from the
year 5000 escapes from the laboratory and, confused by the people she sees,
she goes in search of men to take with her in time to give life to one new
birth, not poisoned by radiation. The archaeologist Dr. Robert Hedges (Ward
Costello) and Professor Erling realize that their guest from the future
represents a mortal danger to them, because of her radioactivity that threatens
to irreversibly contaminate the present. When the woman controls Victor
by hypnotism, the scientists make a plan to destroy her. |
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Even though the film was made in a hurry, the topic is not without interest
to the audience. The part of the ill-fated and most dangerous woman of the
future is played by Salome Jens, who would later appear with Rock Hudson
in the 1966 science fiction thriller Seconds. |
| Alternate
Titles: Cage of Doom,
Girl From 5,000 A.D., Terror From 5,000
A.D. |
| © |
English
version by Vince Mattaliano |
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