with their laser weapons, they find that the creature's electricity causes the blood to multiply their numbers and there are quickly more creatures. Despite the attempts to contain the creatures, they quickly multiply even more to the point where they will soon overrun the station. Dr. Halversen is killed trying to contain the creatures. Rankin, refusing to leave until the mission is completed, stays in command and decides to evacuate the station on shuttles and set the station to burn up in Earth's atmosphere. Elliott returns to help his friend and is killed trying to save him. Rankin manages to set up the crash landing and escapes with Elliott's body onto the shuttle as the station burns up and destroys all of the green slime creatures. Rankin logs the mission success and recommends the highest citation for Vince Elliott posthumously. Cast Robert Horton as Commander Jack Rankin Richard Jaeckel as Commander Vince Elliott Luciana Paluzzi as Dr. Lisa Benson Bud Widom as General Jonathan B. Thompson Ted Gunther as Dr. Hans Halversen Robert Dunham as Captain Martin David Yorston as Lieutenant Curtis William Ross as Ferguson Gary Randolf as Cordier Japanese dub Gorō Naya as Jack Rankin Ichirō Murakoshi as Vince Elliott Haruko Kitahama as Lisa Benson Kōsei Tomita as Johnathon B. Thompson Production The Green Slime was a co-production between Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Ram Films, and Toei. MGM provided the funding and script while Toei provided the film crew and location to shoot the film. It was the second ever film co-produced by Ram Films and Toei after the 1966 film Terror Beneath the Sea. The storyline for The Green Slime originated in Italy, where MGM also had dealings. Years before The Green Slime went into production, MGM had contracted Italian filmmaker Antonio Margheriti to direct what was intended to be a series of four television movies about the adventures of a space station called Gamma One. Margheriti's films in the series consisted of Wild, Wild Planet, War of the Planets, War Between the Planets and Snow Devils, all created over a period of three months and released in 1965. MGM was impressed with Margheriti's films and released the four films theatrically. Gamma One producers Manley and Reiner were eager to take advantage of these films and made The Green Slime as an unofficial fifth entry in the film series. The only connection the film had to Margheriti's films is the