Bill Edward's experimental spaceship vanishes on an attempt to go higher than ever before. When a monster starts to drain the blood of people, first at the air force base, and then elsewhere, his brother, Marshall Thompson, investigates.
It's a production of MGM in England, and its cheapness shines through. There's lots of stock footage, often of Chuck Yeager, and of US war planes on the ground. There's also some subtext about the risk of ambition, but it's mostly about the "there are some things man was not meant to know" trope. Geoffrey Faithfull, who started as a cinematographer with Hepworth in the 1910s and would work for another decade, shoots the movie efficiently.
It's a production of MGM in England, and its cheapness shines through. There's lots of stock footage, often of Chuck Yeager, and of US war planes on the ground. There's also some subtext about the risk of ambition, but it's mostly about the "there are some things man was not meant to know" trope. Geoffrey Faithfull, who started as a cinematographer with Hepworth in the 1910s and would work for another decade, shoots the movie efficiently.