Supersonic Saucer

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Movie
Original title Supersonic Suacer
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 1956
length 50 minutes
Rod
Director Guy Ferguson
script Dallas Bower based on a short story by Frank Richard Wells
production Frank Richard Wells for Gaumont-British Pictures Corporation
music Jack Beaver
camera Frank North
occupation

Supersonic Saucer (English: supersonic - Saucer ) is a British children's film from 1956 in the genre of science fiction film with elements of comedy and crime movie . A child resident of Venus lands as a flying saucer in England and helps children there to convict a gang of thieves .

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In an English boarding school, the children Rodney, Rodney's brother Adolphus, Somac , who comes from South America , and Greta are bored because the other children have already gone on vacation. Rodney and Adolphus are the principal's children. While visiting an observatory, Rodney observed through the telescope how a flying saucer took off from Venus , but nobody believes his observation. When the school management locks the sports team's silver trophies in the school vault, they are watched by a school employee. He rides a bicycle to a phone booth and reports the incident to a gang of crooks of which he is apparently a member.

The children are playing in the school park when a small flying saucer lands in a tree. It is transformed into a creature around 60 centimeters high, of which only the head can be seen; the body is covered by a long white robe. It can contact the children telepathically , but not equally well with all children. Communication with Somac, who is a stranger in England itself, is excellent. The children call the extraterrestrial from Venus Meba. Meba shows the children pictures of Venus via thought transfer. It is still a very young Venusian and has vanished as a "saucer" on its first flight.

The children like Meba but think it is right to hide it from the adults. Sometimes communication is a bit problematic. Meba wants to help the children. When they are hungry, it turns back into a flying saucer and "organizes" a celebratory meal in a restaurant in no time at all. But the children insist that they pay for the food they really need and Meba has to bring the money and the rest of the dishes back. Since Greta and Somac dream of having enough money to visit their parents, Meba “gets” heaps of money from a bank vault, but the children make it clear to him that he has to bring them back too.

The gang of crooks steals the silver from the school safe and disappears into an empty country house that serves as their quarters. But they are watched and persecuted by the children. During the chase, the crooks discover Meba, lock him in a box and kidnap him to their hiding place. When it comes to a fight between the children and the gang, Greta is able to free Meba. With his ability to let time go backwards, Meba can help the children. So he lets the crooks run back a flight of stairs until they are too exhausted to pursue the children. Finally, Meba succeeds in alerting the police via an emergency telephone . Since he cannot speak, he sets a fire in the crooks' hiding place so that the police who arrive at the emergency telephone can find the crooks center. Police and fire brigade approach and arrest the crooks. The children receive a reward and Greta and Somac are allowed to visit their parents. Meba can return to Venus.

Production notes

The flying saucer is an animation in a real film . Meba is a hand puppet that is carried by the children. The script was based on a short story by Frank Wells, the second son of HG Wells .

The film was one of British Gaumont's last productions. None of the children later became actors.

criticism

As a kids film, it is predictable and repetitive for adults. Still, the film has nostalgic innocent-age entertainment value.

Classicscifi.blogspot.com from January 5, 2013

Lore

In 2014 a DVD edition was released together with the children's films Kedoyng (1972) and The Glitterball (1977), which are also part of the sci-fi genre.

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