1951 was a milestone year for Sci-Fi cinema, as it saw the birth of the "Alien Invasion" movie and immediately also two landmark-titles that still stand solid today as indestructible genre classics: "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and "The Thing from Another World". When it comes to being the absolute first alien-invasion movie, however, both these masterpieces were beaten by the modest and extremely low-budgeted "The Man from Planet X", since that one got released in the spring of '51! It's a charming and enjoyable B-movie with a cool and memorable looking alien. The American reporter John Lawrence is invited by his scientist friend Prof. John Elliott, to a remote and minuscule little island off the Scottish coast named Burry. Elliott discovered a new planet, inventively called it "X" and set up an observatory in Burry because the passing of the planet will be best seen from this island. John Lawrence is far more interested in Professor Elliot's daughter Enid, but when they romantically walk around in the Moors, they witness the landing of a peculiar spaceship and an odd-looking green visitor. Cult director Edgar G. Ulmer is notorious for accomplishing good things with minimal budgets, but he certainly did surpass himself here. "The Man from Planet X" is made on a shoestring budget, and Ulmer does whatever he can to hide it, like shrouding all the crude set-pieces and cardboard locations in thick mist or ripping off his own cast members with overdue salaries that were even less than minimum wages. But, even more remarkable than his ability to creatively camouflage budget restrictions are Ulmer's skills to nevertheless insert flashes of sheer genius and ambiguity. For example, did the stern-looking alien land on earth with malignant intentions to begin with, or did he only turn hostile after his first encounters with the typically greedy and destructive nature of earthly creatures, as demonstrated by the vicious Dr. Mears?