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It Conquered the World gets the 5 Minute Drive-In treatment in this fast movie edit of Roger Corman’s 1956 sci-fi monster classic from American International Pictures.

Edited by me, not AI. Spoiler warning: this is the whole Venus invasion compressed into 5 minutes. Mild monster/weird-stuff warning: flying mind-control bat things, cave panic, emotional betrayal, and a Venus creature that looks like angry produce.

Lee Van Cleef plays a scientist helping an alien from Venus “save” humanity by removing emotion. Peter Graves tries to stop it. Beverly Garland looks like she could end the entire invasion with one handbag swing.

Watch the full It Conquered the World presentation on my channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arcM2dY_2Kg&t=909s

Chapters:
0:00 It Conquered the World enters the danger cave
0:15 Military men explain the end of Earth indoors
0:30 Beverly Garland senses science has gone stupid
0:45 Night panic and Venus problems begin
1:00 Soldiers, police, and low-budget national defense
1:15 Chaos hits the control room
1:30 Outdoor military panic, now with trees
1:45 Lee Van Cleef activates villain-scientist mode
2:00 Something from Venus starts moving
2:15 Flying mind-control bat attack
2:30 Romance briefly survives the invasion
2:45 The scientist makes another terrible choice
3:00 Secret signals and suspicious equipment
3:15 Humans disagree with alien management
3:30 The Venus monster reveals its whole shame
3:45 Beverly Garland grabs the plot by the throat
4:00 Cave showdown with Beulah
4:15 Everyone gathers for monster business
4:30 The getaway car meets alien nonsense
4:45 The Venus creature gets handsy
5:00 The End, somehow Earth survives

5 Weird Fun Facts:
1. It Conquered the World was released in 1956.
2. Roger Corman produced and directed it.
3. Lee Van Cleef plays the scientist helping the Venus monster.
4. Modern sources say Charles B. Griffith actually wrote the script, though Lou Rusoff got onscreen credit.
5. The Venus monster was nicknamed “Beulah.”

Sorry for the fun facts, but they add context/commentary and help support fair use. Also sorry not everything fits; five minutes cannot contain every bat thing, cave scream, Peter Graves face, and Beverly Garland glare.

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Transcript
00:03unidentified object we're all in a state of high hilarity we'll all wind up in a state of high
00:08mortality if you don't call off a satellite project this has not convinced me alien
00:12intelligence watches us constantly in about eight seconds the sphere will be lost
00:16you were wrong about the satellite hardly been up there for three months now nothing horrible
00:24has happened i'm getting tired of hearing about nothing but satellites isotopes maybe you've got
00:28something in space medicine i could use for a headache it's venus there's no reason that venus
00:32shouldn't radiate impulses can't you hear the other thing listen to the voice the satellite it took off
00:37on a direct tangent of the space it's vanished we've got to find it he drew the satellite to his
00:41world to venus and now he's back within an hour he's inside that circling laboratory just waiting
00:45to come down to us to save us i'm not paying for it nothing to do now but bring it
00:49down
00:51he's alive darling he survived the crash
00:57must be the battery or something there's been a power failure someplace
01:00your husband said this thing was going to happen now i ask him how well we're going to get out
01:11you do this come on you what's that i'm not going to stop to ask it what an ugly creature
01:26let's get back from the olympics
01:31stupidity restrains man's progress a new arrival is going to end all of this whole area has been placed
01:36under martial law i have orders to restrict everyone to this building you mean we're prisoners
01:40i've known tom anderson he's predicted everything a fertile imagination could he's wasted his entire
01:44life he's not at his home he may try to get to the satellite installation
01:50what's everybody running from it's the end of everything we're after us who's after you
01:56i've seen a funny looking bird
02:01please don't be difficult editor i have built this town no need for papers now
02:05they're nothing but a stack of ideas i'm staying
02:09you just killed a man in cold blood why i'll have to place you under protective custody
02:19how do they gain control of the victim you should rather call them the released
02:22they plant these in the person's neck after which he is controlled by the benefactor
02:26where is everybody they've been transported to the district air base
02:29you can hire a woman who'll fit all your fetishes
02:40you murderer yes i helped him i paved the way there's only one on earth there are nine altogether
02:45the other eight are still on venus each of the nine has an intellect that will dwarf humans know
02:48that in the last 24 hours men have had their minds their personalities their moral standards
02:52imprisoned he wants you on his side next to me he wants you you're a traitor anderson you're not
02:57betraying part of mankind you're betraying all of it i want to love a good man the fine man i
03:01married
03:02i won't love a monster
03:06when i get back you'll feel much better
03:17you said you killed the control device that was made for you so
03:21apologize there's something i have to take care of first now we must wait for him to give us
03:25instructions why does he want you to kill paul
03:35at this point
03:38his encephalographic control i shall remain in contact
03:41i hate your living guts for what you've done to my husband and my world and i'm gonna kill you
03:47why don't you kill me and get it over with
03:49the worst things to worry
03:51tom the king's playing you for a big sucker
03:53what
03:53he's using your human emotions to get his own ends
03:59they're ugly
04:01i'll see you in hell first
04:06are you gonna help me destroy it
04:08take care of them i'll go to the cave
04:14i see a monster in a cave
04:37cease firing i made you welcome to this earth you're made of the chino house
04:45he acted like he knew it
04:46he did
04:47and have to find their own way to make their own mistakes
04:49there can't be any gift of perfection from outside ourselves
04:52they find only death
04:54fire
04:55loss
04:56disillusionment
04:56the end of everything that's gone forward
04:58it has to come from inside
04:59and himself
05:06now you have got something up your sleeve
05:07i can't tell you paul
05:09my wife won't let me
05:09she thinks i'm crazy
05:10the whole world thinks you're crazy
05:12maybe even me
05:13i can't tell you
05:13i can't tell you
05:13that happens
05:13i can't tell you
05:13my wife died
05:13our love
05:13y'all
05:14her
05:14You

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