This Island Earth
2½ Years in the Making!
Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.
- Director
- Joseph M. Newman
- Signature
- Tension · Wonder · Action
- Worldwide
- $2M
Who's in it
Cast
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Movie DNA
How This Island Earth actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve traits our editors track across every Nutevio title.
Story overview
What It's About
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Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.
Where to watch
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
This Island Earth returned 2.1× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $800,000
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $2M
- Release date
- Jun 10, 1955
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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