"They're here! They're here! They've landed!"
It’s 1951 and an extraterrestrial flying saucer is tracked around the Earth before it lands in
This is very much a film of its time. Its overriding theme
of Cold War tensions is now part of history and its religious themes have much
less importance today. The fact that an alien has travelled millions of miles
to warn humanity about its own as well as the Universe’s destruction must have
been a major talking point back in 1951. The idea that the alien could also be
viewed as Jesus takes the warning even further. The film delivers a stern but
important message about what a threat we can be to ourselves. The fact that the
film came just six years after the world’s most bloody war is no coincidence
either.