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8 October 1969 (USA) moreTagline:
If you don't like air pollution, war, body odor, hard pizza rolls, exercise, hairy musicians, sexy blonds, tooth decay, smiling heroes, population explosion... you'll love The Monitors.Plot:
Unusual sci-fi invasion film, with a black-comedy twist: The Earth is taken over by The Monitors, aliens... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Extraordinary more (10 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Guy Stockwell | ... | Harry | |
| Susan Oliver | ... | Barbara | |
| Larry Storch | ... | Colonel Stutz | |
| Avery Schreiber | ... | Max | |
| Sherry Jackson | ... | Mona | |
| Shepperd Strudwick | ... | Tersh Jeterax | |
| Keenan Wynn | ... | General | |
| Ed Begley | ... | President | |
| J.J. Barry | ... | Culp | |
| Martin Harvey Friedberg | ... | Newt | |
| Sid Grossfeld | ... | Gate Guard | |
| Burt Heyman | ... | Fink | |
| Helen Malone | ... | Mrs. Jordan | |
| Mike Nussbaum | ... | Exercise Chief | |
| Murphy Dunne | ... | Monitor Driver |
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This film bounces between being yet another stupid sixties oddity, to an almost forgotten work of sheer genius.
There are moments where you'll question whether the cast or crew were on some dodgy medication, and others where you'll think "blimey. That's not too bad." Some of the elements are high comedy - for example one character uses a variety of items (melon, whipping cream, french stick) from a shopping basket in a fight seen, but at the same time the film maintains a certain darkness. The monitors come across as perhaps the most polite but menacing characters seen for a long time.
Worth your time.