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Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) is a 78-minute science-fiction film that airs free on Starlite TV's Rocket Age (CH 5) channel. Our rights research indicates it is in the U.S. public domain (evidence below). Directed by Ed Wood.
About Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
Plan 9 from Outer Space is a 1957 American independent science fiction-horror film produced, written, directed, and edited by Ed Wood. The film was shot in black-and-white in November 1956 and had a preview screening on March 15, 1957, at the Carlton Theatre in Los Angeles under the title Grave Robbers from Outer Space.
Mourners gather around an old man (Lugosi) at his wife's grave site as an airliner overhead flies toward Burbank, California. Pilot Jeff Trent and his co-pilot Danny are startled by a bright light, accompanied by a loud noise. They see a flying saucer land in the cemetery near Jeff's house, where two gravediggers are killed by a ghoul (the reanimated wife of the old man). Lost in grief, the old man is struck and killed by a car in front of his home. Mourners at his funeral discover the gravediggers' corpses.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Plan 9 from Outer Space (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Credits
- Directed by: Ed Wood
- Cast includes: Bela Lugosi, The Amazing Criswell, Ed Wood, Maila Nurmi, Joanna Lee, Tor Johnson, Bunny Breckinridge, Paul Marco
- Country: United States
Credits from Wikidata · Wikipedia article
Airs on
- Graveyard Shift - CH 4, Horror TV
- Rocket Age - CH 5, Sci-Fi TV
Rights & source
- Basis: Documented as U.S. public domain (e.g. copyright not renewed / no notice)
- Evidence: Listed in Wikipedia 'List of films in the public domain in the United States' (cites Pierce 2007 / Fishman / trade sources).
- License on source: creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
- Music: Film soundtrack falls with the film; separately published songs (if any) not individually cleared.
- Source: Internet Archive
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