Battle in Outer Space (1960) was released originally in Japan as The Great Space War at the back end of the previous year. The film is a loose sequel to The Mysterians (1957). And there I must confess to having seen neither of them so rather that wiki-repeat I'll just let you look at the pretty pictures.
Steve
This is well worth looking at in the letter-boxed, original Japanese cut currently available on DVD. It is … in spite of a low by Hollywood or English standards budget … a big-scale spectacular. The rough edges (literally on some of the miniatures and in some of the less-than-ILM-quality bluescreen shots) and the story is a bit simplistic but it looks great and is a ton O' fun! Nothing from Hollywood or the UK even attempted anything THAT ambitious at that time. 20th Century Fox started doing some big sci-fi flicks in the 60s but by the mid 1950s it was low-budget stuff only.
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