Product Details

• Actors: John Carradine, Bruce Bennett, Angela Greene, Paul Langton, Scotty Morrow
• Directors: Herbert S. Greene
• Writers: Arthur C. Pierce
• Producers: Harry Marsh, Robert A. Terry
• Format: Black & White, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: First Look Home Ente
• VHS Release Date: October 5, 1998
• Run Time: 72 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305136653
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #535,983 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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Virtually The Day the Earth Stood Still retold, The Cosmic Man is another moralistic antiwar film with a kindly, intelligent alien who makes the U.S. Army look like destructive dunderheads. Bruce Bennett stars as the Robert Oppenheimer-type scientist who feels guilty about having created the atomic bomb and is now cautious about the relationship between science and the military. He's called in to investigate a mysterious floating white sphere believed to be from outer space. John Carradine is the helpful alien the army brass wants to exploit until they begin to fear his superior powers. Bennett fights to understand and save the Cosmic Man from trigger-happy soldiers and toady scientists. The special effects are charming because of their cheapness. The Cosmic Man first appears in negative but passes himself off as human by wearing a trench coat and kooky glasses with eyes painted on them. Add to that some hams in supporting actor roles and occasionally ridiculous dialogue. Look for Griffith Park Observatory doubling as a science lab! --Margaret Griffis

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44 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars COSMIC BARGAIN!!!, October 18, 2007

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This review is from: Watch the Skies! (The Cosmic Man / The Flying Saucer / Stranger From Venus) (DVD)

This is a GREAT BARGAIN PACK of Image 1950's sci-fi dvds...The transfers are wonderful! COSMIC MAN looks just like it did when I saw it at the theater eons ago!!!...& it is my favorite of the three. FLYING SAUCER is a little slow with not much happening, but this is a VERY EARLY entry into the sci-fi genre & STRANGER FROM VENUS is kind of a remake/take-off on THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, as is COSMIC MAN!...So if you want to see some very good invader-friendly 1950's message oriented films in beautiful condition then this is your ticket! The source material is exceptional!!! & you couldn't get a better introduction to 1950's sci-fi.
BUY THIS.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars COSMIC ENJOYMENT!!!, February 11, 2007

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This review is from: The Cosmic Man (DVD)

Actually saw this in a theater in the early 1960's...Loved it, as any reader of FAMOUS MONSTERS magazine would...Bought the dvd & it brought back past memories, especially the FLOATING ALIEN SPACE_SPHERE (GLOBE/BALL?)...whatever.

Good sci-fi entry in the mode of THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, enjoyable & family watchable!!!...Recommemded for fans of this sort of stuff (...like me).

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More than meets the eye..., September 12, 2009

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This review is from: Watch the Skies! (The Cosmic Man / The Flying Saucer / Stranger From Venus) (DVD)

This collection of movies are cool..for many reasons...they show a different world than ours today and the characters have mindsets reflecting the times in which they were made.The obvious remakes of "The Day The Earth Stood Still"...the "Cosmic Man" and "Stranger From Venus" have the cold war mentality and fear that was present we had as Americans then..The last movie "The Flying Saucer" has the same approach to cold war thinking and spies around every corner mentality with the the flying saucer finally being seen up close(stationary actually) as opposed to a few people watching it flash by...To my surprise,It appears to be a confiscated Horten 229 jetfighter(outer shell only) designed and flew by Germany during WW2...You see enough to recognize it..check it out..what do you think?