I Married a Monster from Outer Space *** (1958, Tom Tyron, Gloria Talbott, Peter Baldwin, Robert Ivers, Chuck Wassil, Ty Hardin, Valerie Allen, Ken Lynch, John Eldredge, Maxie Rosenbloom, Bess Flowers) – Classic Movie Review 13,766

The cheap and cheerful 1958 cult sci-fi horror film I Married a Monster from Outer Space stars Gloria Talbott as Marge, who discovers her husband (Tom Tyron) is now an alien humanoid.

Producer/ director Gene Fowler Jr’s 1958 Paramount Pictures black and white sci-fi horror film I Married a Monster from Outer Space stars Tom Tyron and Gloria Talbott, along with Peter Baldwin, Robert Ivers, Chuck Wassil, Ty Hardin, Valerie Allen, Ken Lynch, John Eldredge, Maxie Rosenbloom and Bess Flowers.

Aliens are employing Bill Farrell (Tom Tryon) to control the Earth in producer-director Gene Fowler Jr’s cheap and cheerful 1958 sci-fi cult movie, made for just $125,000 or $175,000 (estimated) by Paramount Pictures. Poor young Marge (Gloria Talbott) finds that being Tryon’s new wife is trying. After a year of marriage, Marge starts realising her cold husband is not the warm man she thought she married, and discovers he is an alien humanoid.

Poor old Bill has been abducted by an alien that takes his shape and marries Marge the next day. However, time goes by and one day Marge finally realises that Bill is a different man, follows him into the woods, finds he is an alien and spots his spacecraft. When she tries to tell to Washington and the FBI, she finds the aliens have taken over key personnel.

Fowler’s entertaining Body Snatchers-style tale has a great title, amusing rhubarb-faced, eerie three-clawed monsters (played by Charles Gemora and Joe Gray), creaky effects and some spooky scenes in the manner of the same director’s 1957 I Was a Teenage Werewolf.

As Mac Brody, Ty (Bronco Lane) Hardin is billed as Ty Hungerford.

Screenwriter Louis Vittes was resistant to any changes to his script, apparently annoying the lead actors.

Hollywood makeup artist Charles Gemora was renowned as the ‘King of the Gorilla Men’ for his many film appearances in a gorilla suit, so playing an Alien must have been a great change of pace! Joe Gray was an American boxer, actor and stuntman.

It was shot from 21 April 1958 to early May 1958. It premiered in Los Angeles on September 10, 1958, before its US/ Canada release in October 1958.

Paramount released it as a double feature with The Blob, but it was soon relegated to the bottom half of the double bill. After all, The Blob was in colour and starred Steve McQueen.

It is remade for TV as I Married a Monster in 1999.

Cast: Tom Tyron and Gloria Talbott, along with Peter Baldwin, Robert Ivers, Chuck Wassil, Ty Hardin, Valerie Allen, Ken Lynch, John Eldredge, Maxie Rosenbloom, Bess Flowers, James Anderson, Jean Carson, Jack Orrisom, Steve London, Valerie Allen, Charles Gemora, Joe Gray, Helen Jay, Arthur Lovejoy, Mary Treen.

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