Menace from Outer Space (1956)

Menace from Outer Space (1956)

Directed by: Hollingsworth Morse

Starring: Richard Crane, Scotty Beckett, Sally Mansfield

Ah, another Rocky Jones couple-of-episodes-repackaged-as-a-movie! How–GAH! What’s wrong with their faces?! I know one graphic designer who needs to have his Photoshop license revoked. That’s terrifying, man.

Menace from Outer Space starts like all movies should: A mysterious missile is shot at the Earth (specifically at the house of Rocky’s little boy and old professor sidekicks). It turns out the missile’s from a made-up moon of Jupiter, which has a civilization of Persians and massive amounts of some kind of metal or something, so Rocky and the crew go for a visit. When they get there, they find an evil scientist who’s already made contact with them, and… I dunno, wacky hijinks.

This was really uninteresting compared to Crash of the Moons. I mean, they go to the moon, take the leader back with them to show him that they actually want peace, then go back and stop the bad guy who was JUST ABOUT to do something. Finally. Nope! Entertainment avoided! Phew!