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   Jay Morris to Evelyn C. Leeper   
   Re: MT VOID, 08/08/25 -- Vol. 44, No. 6,   
   10 Aug 25 16:37:28   
   
   From: morrisj@epsilon3.me   
      
   On 8/10/2025 8:07 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:   
   > UNEARTHLY STRANGER (1963): UNEARTHLY STRANGER was made by Anglo   
   > Amalgamated, who also made THE MIND BENDERS (another of Mark's   
   > "forgotten science fiction films") and the "Carry On" films.   
   >   
   > The film is told in flashback, and there is an odd continuity   
   > problem which makes one think the framing sequence was added later   
   > by someone who did not read the script very closely. (In the   
   > opening, the character who is the skeptic in the main part of the   
   > film talks about how he believed and the other character was the   
   > skeptic.)   
   >   
   > (Also, the claim is that the aliens don't blink, except they do.)   
      
   The only time I noticed any blinking was at the dinner table and I think   
   Julia was playing upon the line "Thank you Kindly Sir she said" and John   
   follows up with "as she waved her wooden leg aloft". This was evidently   
   a saying at the time.   
      
   >   
   > Once again we have a shot of a spiral staircase shot off   
   > kilter--this is a real favorite of directors.   
   >   
   > Released theatrically April 1964.   
   >   
   > Film Credits:   
   >    
   >   
   > What others are saying:   
   >    
   It's at Internet Archives. I enjoyed it,   
   https://archive.org/details/unearthly-stranger   
      
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