i make sure to see this film because it be a 1950s sci fi film one of my favorite genre . unfortunately and while i be look forward to either bug eye alien or power mad conquerers and the alien in this film be a major disappointment . first and you only see one very briefly at the beginning ( and he look pretty ordinary ) and you also only get a tiny glimpse of a spaceship . second and the alien be neither the evil conquerer or the benevolent friend of mankind but a real odd ball . and finally and the plot itself seem so dumb and preachy and heavy hand that it elicit more yawn than thrill . a the film begin and five people from five different part of the world ( germany and britain and russia and china and the usa ) be kidnap by an alien . the alien give each of them device by which they can destroy all life on the planet if they so choose because and the alien admit that his race of people would love to inhabit the earth but they themselves would not kill to get it . then and he return them all . while it 100 % obvious that no one would want to use these device and the alien then announce on tv the identity of the five without tell that the weapon be that powerful . so and all the militarist in the world want to find the five and force them to reveal how the weapon work . much of the rest of the film consist of some of the five go into hiding and one be torture to get him to reveal how the device work a the soviet want to use it . this part of the film just seem pretty silly . sure the ussr be an evil and corrupt nation ( sorry and but it fact especially under stalin ) and they never would have think of use it like they do in the movie . later and one of the five ( the german scientist ) and somehow figure out that the device can also be use to kill only all the evil people who hate freedom . so and he use it to wipe out all the evil commie and presumably others who be anti freedom and the world then become a paradise . preachy and silly and full of plot hole this movie just isn not worth your time and though it be an interesting relic simply for the way it address communism in particular and the tension between nato and the soviet .