When the teenagers all flash their headlights on them at once, the three remaining aliens disappear in a puff of smoke. Cast Steven Terrell - Johnny Carter Gloria Castillo - Joan Hayden Frank Gorshin - Joe Gruen Lyn Osborn - Art Burns Raymond Hatton - Farmer Larkin Sam Buffington - Colonel Ambrose Douglas Henderson - Lt. Wilkins Kelly Thordsen - Sgt. Bruce Production The film was made by Malibu Productions. Film rights to Fairman's short story The Cosmic Frame were purchased through Forrest J Ackerman's Ackerman Science Fiction Agency. Special effects technician Paul Blaisdell, who provided four alien costumes, a mobile severed hand and a flying saucer, recalled that Invasion of the Saucer Men was originally intended as a serious horror film, but gradually developed into a comedy. Blaisdell and his friend/assistant Bob Burns played two of the aliens, with the others being played alternately by dwarf actors Angelo Rossito, Eddie Gibbons, Dean Neville and Lloyd Dixon. The entire film takes place during the period of one night, with 98% of it filmed on a very large studio sound stage. Blaisdell felt that Frederick West's excellent "day-for-night" photography added a lot to the clarity of the film's picture quality. Blaisdell praised Ronald Stein's silly symphonic music score and actor Lyn Osborne's rubbery, emotional facial expressions with setting the perfect mood for the film. (Lyn Osborne previously had starred as "Cadet Happy" on TV's Space Patrol in the mid-1950s; he died soon after completing his work on Saucer Men). Release Invasion of the Saucer Men was released by AIP on June 19, 1957 as part of a double feature with I Was a Teenage Werewolf. Legacy In 1965, self-professed "schlockmeister" Larry Buchanan cheaply remade Invasion of the Saucer Men in color as The Eye Creatures, a made-for-television feature for AIP-TV. The Lillingtons featured a song called "Invasion of the Saucermen" on their 1999 album Death by Television. Reception Variety called the film "a minor entry for the science-fiction trade", noting that it "suffers from poor use of attempted comedy, and is further handicapped by a haphazard sort of yarn which makes film's 69-minutes' running time seem much more". Harrison's Reports called it "an ordinary program melodrama...The action on the whole is rather unbelievable, but it does have its horrific moments, particularly in the scenes where severed hands are shown creeping about to touch human beings". In the U.K. (where the film