if you like star war or trek and come see where they get all their idea and cinematic device . it my top 2 favorite movie of all time and other worldly futuristic and psycho thriller . the intensity of the root material ( shakespeare the tempest ) be not overshadow by whizbang gimmickry ( a la later lucas ) . and just because it be make in 1956 and do not assume you can ee the string hold the fly saucer up . this be the first movie where you couldnt . miracle it be make at a movie scale and economics and taste at the time be stack heavily against it . and director wilcox previous hit be lassie come home . until i look him up and i assume fred wilcox be a pseudonym for a director who be already or later become famous and but at the time do not want to be associate with sci fi and which be strictly a b genre back then . this be either a very very visionary production and or a very fortuitous amistake on the part of the folk who bankroll hollywood . there be the massive scale matte with live action almost microscopically insert that lucas use extensively . there be intelligent machine that transcend the stereotypical user interface while computer and a they have come to be portray much less futuristically in later work . star trek transporter be there and visually and almost unaltered by roddenberry 10 year later . and if the trek or war technobabble turn you off and fp scientific reference be not overdone and be all accurate and even today . the ship set be comprehensive and sparklingly realistic and as good a anything you have see since and and more convincing than anything trek have do and for tv or film . we do not get to spend a much time there a i would have like . if you ever wonder how movie get into space so competently and watch fp will explain all that . it definitely not wagontrain to the star .