alluded to some authorized government films of flying saucers. None of that footage was actually included in The Flying Saucer. Reception The Flying Saucer did not rise above its B film origins. Its low budget production doomed it to the bottom end of theater playbills and drive-ins. The New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther observed: "A film called 'The Flying Saucer' flew into the Rialto yesterday and, except for some nice Alaskan scenery, it can go right on flying, for all we care. In fact, it is such a clumsy item that we doubt if it will go very far, and we hesitate, out of mercy, to fire even a critical shot at it". Copyright All rights to The Flying Saucer have been owned worldwide since 1977 by Wade Williams. Copyright was renewed on November 29, 1977 (R 677308), Library of Congress Copyright Office. See also 1950 in film List of science fiction films of the 1950s References Notes Bibliography Strick, Philip. Science Fiction Movies. London: Octopus Books Limited, 1976. . Warren, Bill. Keep Watching the Skies: American Science Fiction Films of the Fifties, 21st Century Edition. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2009. . External links The Flying Saucer at IMDB Trailer for The Flying Saucer at Internet Archive 1950 films American science fiction films 1950s science fiction films American spy films Cold War spy films UFO-related films 1950s English-language films Film Classics films American black-and-white films Avalanches in film Films set in Alaska Films shot in Alaska 1950s American films