The story takes place in a rustic farmhouse, with only candles and lamps for light, out in the middle of nowhere.\u00a0 An older woman (played by Agnes Moorehead) is cooking her dinner in the kitchen.\u00a0 Suddenly a high-pitched whine hurts her ears and then there is a crash on the roof of her house and she falls to the floor.\u00a0 When she climbs up a ladder and opens a door onto the roof, she sees a miniature flying saucer about five feet in diameter has landed on the building.\u00a0 As she watches a little man in a space suit about eight inches tall walks out of the ship.\u00a0 She knocks him into the opening and he falls down the hole.\u00a0 Another comes out of the ship and fires a tiny ray gun at her so she bowls him over with a lamp she throws at him and he falls off the roof.<\/p>\n
The woman climbs back down the ladder and starts searching the house for the little invaders.\u00a0 She meets up with them a number of times and they manage to hurt her enough with their ray guns to raise a series of blisters on her skin.\u00a0 One of them even steals a kitchen knife and cuts her on the hand and calf at various points in the story.\u00a0 Finally, at a certain point she traps one of them in her bed blanket and after tugging the knife out of his grasp she beats the blanket with the space man in it against a table until we assume, he is dead.\u00a0 Then she puts the space man into a box and throws it into the fire place to burn.<\/p>\n
The woman then up the ladder to the roof and taking a small hatchet she chops the space ship into wreckage.\u00a0 While she is doing this, we hear a voice apparently calling over a radio to his base reporting that they have landed on a planet of giants and that his crew mate has been killed and that he himself is dying.\u00a0 He warns that no retaliation or further landings should be attempted because the giants are just too powerful.<\/p>\n
As the woman walks away, we get a closeup of the ruined ship and written on the side is US Air Force, Space Probe No. 1.\u00a0 The tiny men were us!\u00a0 Dun dun dunnnnnn!<\/p>\n
When I was a little kid, I thought this was great.\u00a0 Then when I grew up, I thought it was really cheap.\u00a0 Now, I\u2019m somewhere in the middle.\u00a0 Agnes Moorehead is an annoying mute and pretty homely to boot.\u00a0 She only screeches, whines, cries and moans a little.\u00a0 Are the giants mute?\u00a0 Who the hell knows?\u00a0 The fact that the space men were running around like high speed mice whenever they were off camera but stood like statues whenever you could see them was very cheesy.\u00a0 How they wielded a knife that was bigger than they were and almost weighed as much is beyond comprehension.\u00a0 And how the two of them weren\u2019t killed when they were dropped from what to them would have been a hundred feet on Earth is laughable.\u00a0 And finally, once again they managed to recycle a prop from Forbidden Planet (the miniature flying saucer).<\/p>\n
Alright, I\u2019ll split the difference B-.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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