Mike lands at Ernie’s bar, where he asks for a scotch but the bartender recommends the rye.
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I should mention that for the next little while, this movie jumps genres over to screwball comedy. Mike arrives in Juneau and wastes no time getting his drink on. Once she’s learned that Mike’s escaped to Juneau, Vee flags down a passing barge to follow him. Except the bear is stock footage and can’t do anything more that frighten Vee back to the lodge. What is this duplicitous beret wearing, German named, and likely Russian aligned creeper up to? It’s a pointless few minutes of suspense though, as Hans decides not to take the shot, assuming that a nearby bear will do his dirty work. The next morning, while Vee’s out on a hike, Mike grabs the boat and heads to town! Shortly after, Hans shows his true colors by grabbing a gun and stalking Vee in the forest. Vee, sees right through this and puts the kibosh on that idea. He proposes going down to Juneau where he can look up some of his old drinking buddies to see if they have any intel. It ends as quickly as it started, but at least Mike now believes the saucer is real. Finally, 25 minutes in, we’re going to get some hot saucer action! Nope. We’re just Hank Thorn’s stooges!” Mike’s emo whimper session is interrupted by the sound of the flying saucer outside. Mike tries his luck with Vee (and Joseph Breen) as he tries to cop a feel.Īnyway, Mike gets all pissy when Vee rejects his groping. She does a pretty decent job with what she has to work with here. Vee was played by Pat Garrison, whose career went pretty much nowhere. Yeah, that’s not the slightest bit conspicuous. You know, I want to work for a government agency where even the idea of living like a lout can be rewarded by sending me on paid vacation with a gorgeous nurse. See, the cover story for Mike is that he needs to ‘dry out’ after living too rich in New York. His outlook changes when he’s introduced to Vee Langley, the sexy female agent who’s going to be posing as his nurse. He’s skeptical and frankly doesn’t want to leave his posh lifestyle in New York. Hungover, self-entitled and lazy, Mike is none to happy when Hank orders him back to his home state of Alaska to investigate the latest Flying Saucer sightings there. Mike is some kind of agent for the aforementioned intelligence agency. It’s here that we meet our *cough* hero, Mike Trent, played by Mikel Conrad with all the subtlety of a Cadillac Salesman on President’s day weekend. We cut to the office of Hank Thorn, an officer for some clandestine US intelligence agency. Okay movie, I like this little game we’re playing but we’ll come back to that idea later. The implication is that certain people in authority allowed the use of actual flying saucer footage in this film. The wording makes it seem like they’re referring to actual shots of a flying saucer in this movie. But the more I think about it, I feel like there was another intention here. The film opens with acknowledgement text reading, “We gratefully acknowledge cooperation of those in authority who made the release of the “The Flying Saucer” film possible at this time.” When I first read this, I assumed it was written in gratitude to the US military for granting access to film government buildings or something. With Roswell making major headlines a few years before, and a growing curiosity about UFOs in the US, it was high time for someone to exploit the subject matter. Spending the late 40s playing small characters in B-movies and having never written or directed before, Mikel somehow scraped together the cash to produce this film. “The Flying Saucer” was written, directed and produced by Mikel Conrad who also starred. For now, we’re sticking with alien invasion stories set in a nuclear capable America with a sticky red coating of cold war paranoia. Sure, Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers dealt with spaceships and beings from other worlds, but those were serials which took place in the future. If that’s true, it’s a good first film to review. “The Flying Saucer” is often called the first film to depict a flying saucer on screen. I’ll be covering other sci-fi genres in the future. These films typically take place on Earth during the 1950s, usually feature a flying saucer, alien or robot, and a huge helping of Macarthy level paranoia! As you might guess, I’ll be skipping some classic Science fiction films from the time period because they don’t quite fit into the mold I just described. For the time being, I’m going to be focusing on the venerable alien come to Earth genre. Today, I’m reviewing “The Flying Saucer”, released in 1950 and produced by Colonial Productions.
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This is a first installment of a series of Golden Age Sci-Fi Cinema Reviews. Greetings popcorn nerds, Jetpack Jason here.
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