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Robert J. Gurney Jr.

Born 1924 · Gastonia, North Carolina, USA · Active 1957–1967
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Invasion of the Saucer-Men

Invasion of the Saucer-Men

1957 ★ 5.3
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A flying saucer lands in the woods. A teenage couple, Johnny Carter (Terrell) and Joan Hayden (Castillo), while driving to their local lover's lane without the headlights on, accidentally run down one of the saucer's large-headed occupants. Joe Gruen (Frank Gorshin), a drunken opportunist, stumbles across the alien's corpse after the teenagers have left to report the incident. Imagining future riches and fame, he plans to keep the body, storing it for now in his refrigerator. After failing to convince his friend Artie Burns (Lyn Osborn) to help him retrieve the alien body, Joe decides to head for home. Other aliens soon arrive, however, and quickly inject alcohol into his veins via their retractable needle fingernails. Joe, already intoxicated, soon dies from alcohol poisoning. Having reported the accident and the deceased alien to the police, Johnny and Joan return with the sheriff, only to find Joe's dead body instead of the alien's. The police then decide to charge both teenagers with vehicular manslaughter. Meanwhile, the dead alien's hand detaches itself from its host and runs amok, causing trouble. The military, following up an earlier UFO report, soon get involved, eventually surrounding the alien's saucer. In the end, it is the teenagers, not the military, who defeat the aliens when they discover that the saucer's occupants cannot stand the glare from their car's bright headlights. A teenage couple making out in the woods accidentally runs over an alien creature with their car. The creature's hand falls off, but it comes alive, and, with an eye growing out of it, begins to stalk the teens. Meanwhile, Joe the town drunk wants to store the body in his refrigerator, but some of the alien's buddies inject alcohol into his system, and Joe dies of an overdose.

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Filmography

13 credits
Crew Credits
1960s 4 credits
1967
Movie ★ 2.9
1964
Movie ★ 2.0
1964
Movie ★ 2.0
1964
Movie ★ 2.0
1950s 9 credits
1958
Movie ★ 5.6
1958
Movie ★ 5.6
1958
Movie ★ 5.6
1958
Movie ★ 3.7
1958
Movie ★ 3.7
1958
Movie ★ 3.7
1957
Movie ★ 4.8
1957
Movie ★ 4.8
1957
Movie ★ 4.7