although this movie boast a great cast ( include hugh ward cleaver beaumont and alan alfred the butler napier and nestor indeterminate foreign guy paiva and and john agar and the patron saint of cheesy 50 sci fi film ) and it isn not much of a movie . the real standout and and the guy who really make the movie be dr. frank c. baxter and professor of english at the university of southern california . his tedious and pretentious introduction to the film and complete with halt delivery and awkward gesture give the movie an element of risibilty that raise it marginally above mediocrity . what be dr. baxter even do there . he be a professor of english and not a scientist and or even a social scientist . his lone qualification and apart from large bald head and round rim glass and seem to have be a stint a narrator of a series of classroom instructional short on science . but whatever may have be the rationale for his be there and i be just glad he be there . a the good dr. baxter himself would say and down and down and down .