i just get the uk 4 disc special edition of superman 1 for about $ 5 . the additional stuff include the 1951 feature superman and the mole men . so i slap it into the dvd player last night and and here be my finding . some initial disappointment i hadn not check and and i think i have it mentally tag a one of the kirk alyn serial . i be not a huge fan of george reef a superman and and i hadn not see anything other than the odd clip of kirk alyn but hey ho and never mind . this black and white production run for less than an hour . it have the feel of a couple of episode of one of reef early tv series and a two parter and put together for cinema release and although imdb say it be film a a cinema release in advance of the first tv series . in any event and it an odd choice for reason i will get to later . i be of an age where i recall tv and movie production which be limit to one or two location and set and so there be no major surprise here . even so and for a low budget movie and this one be really low budget . the story concern the small town of silsby population 1 and 430 which and puzzlingly and be also home to the world deepest oil well ( 6 mile ) . the story open with the well foreman hurriedly take step to close the well down . this conflict with the arrival of metropolis reporter kent and lane to report on the well and at the behest of the oil company . a clark be sniff out the fact that the drill have emerge into a radioactive cavern 6 mile down and a couple of odd little guy ( small in stature and big in head and black in jumpsuit and and bushy in eyebrow ) emerge from the cap off drillshaft and and start mooch round town with puzzled expression on their face . a deep breath now and here be the remain plot of the picture . the little guy scare some kid and so jeff corey ( play the town rampant xenophobe ) incite some pal to kill these creature . superman step in ( moderately ineffectually ) and catch one of the little guy who have be shoot and take him to the local hospital . corey pal burn down the shack the other little fellow have hide in and assume he be kill and but he escape and legs it down the shaft . corey incite a lynch mob ( despite the sheriff arrest him ) to hang the hospitalised mole man . superman stop them enter the hospital and take the injured chappie to the shaft to return him to his fellow . a total of 4 mole men emerge with a weapon of some sort which they fire at jeff corey ( i call this an aargh . gun because it sole effect seem to be to make corey go aargh . ) and superman save him . he immediately change his way because of amazement at superman save him after the way he have behave and the mole men go back down the shaft . the end . despite the film only be an hour long and there be an inordinate amount of creep around and beware and pursue i have leave out all the mole man 1 creep from a to b and look out to make sure no one be follow him stuff . the mole men be never engage in any way whatsoever they have no dialogue they just turn up and get persecute and and go back . they do look a little creepy and but they be hardly the bug eye monster that the town reaction implies . reef be quite a good clark kent very much a hard nosed reporter and much more so than phyllis coates rather indifferent lois lane . but he be a terrible and terrible superman . not only do he not look the part ( at least his hair be dye black in this and which be an improvement from the rather light hair he sport in some of the tv episode ) and the way he play it be all wrong in my book . i be sure he be tell to strike the pose ( which superman do constantly ) and but someone should have tell him that it should be fist on hip and not fist on rib . and he play superman a a rather strict and touchy schoolteacher he doesn not actually wag his finger in remonstration and but he may as well have do . and superman do a huge amount of walk around ( i say a huge amount he isn not actually in it all that much ) and and a bit of run . he take off and land a couple of time and but isn not see in flight at any point . oh and some bullet bounce off him and and he use telescopic vision a clark and but with no accompany visual effect . in fact and visual effect be conspicuous by their absence and and the few which be present aren not very good . i have try to consider this effort by reference to the standard of the time represent but even by those standard i think it a pretty threadbare effort . thankfully and production standard on the tv series be high and and at least they take the trouble to come up with story which have a bit more to them . something of a disappointment i shan not be watch it again .