The Earth Dies Screaming ** (1964, Willard Parker, Virginia Field, Dennis Price, Thorley Walters) – Classic Movie Review 9242

Director Terence Fisher’s 1964 British sci-fi horror quickie The Earth Dies Screaming is cheap and cheerful.

[Spoiler alert] Robots have turned most folk in England into zombies. Well we knew all this telly watching wouldn’t do anyone any good! Crack test pilot aviator Jeff Nolan (New York-born Willard Parker) investigates and puts an end to the alien activity.

Imaginative and tense at first, it then doesn’t have more ideas to spin it out even in this short running time of 62 minutes.

Also in the cast are Dennis Price, Vanda Godsell, Thorley Walters, David Spenser, and Anna Palk.

The Earth Dies Screaming is directed by Terence Fisher, runs 62 minutes, is made by Lippert Films, is released by 20th Century Fox, is written by Harry Spalding [Henry Cross], shot by Arthur Lavis, produced by Robert L Lippert and Jack Parsons, scored by Elisabeth Lutyens and designed by George Provis.

Spalding recalled that someone said the title as a joke and somehow it just kind of stuck but he always hated it. However, it is really catchy and memorable.

It is Parker’s penultimate film, followed by Waco (1966).

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