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my spidey senses are tingling about an abrupt ending being imminent

...wait, what #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon "try to keep this stuff contained to the baggage compartment" -- me, hyping myself up to meet new people

People should wear suits and ties. And smoke on planes. That'd be nice

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wow, those are some tall buses! (^_^)

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@bstacey Uh-oh. Improved direction, editing, and writing is breaking out. The next thing you know, we'll be crowdsourcing production for "SpaceMaster 2026."

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All beautiful people please disrobe immediately!

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Hm, actual footage of a belly landing

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Those decontamination showers are going to be crowded.

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Just a reminder, the name of this movie is "Space Master X-7" #monsterdon

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Give me a vector, Victor!

@nhgeek Did they have money in the first place to run out of, I wonder

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The two-handed scream AND the creature outside the window! #Monsterdon

@ohiofi

What grade did you get? X-4? X-5? X-6?

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FUNGUS of 20,000 feet!

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Cigarettes on an airplane!! I'm not sure the luxury of a lounge area would be enough to balance the possibility of having to breathe someone else's tobacco smoke recirculated for the entire duration of a transatlantic flight.

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Anyway, we land the plane and then send all the passengers off to the decontamination busses, including Army Man. We watch some assorted busses drive away escorted by assorted classic cars. The music turns it knob up maybe not to "11" but at least to 7 or 8. Then the movie ends.

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Get the ship turned around.

It's a plane

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I have an M.S. degree… Master of Space

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There is only 1 compartment on a DC3, there's a front and a back. That's it.

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Protip: If your commercial airliner lands at an air-force base, you're having a bad day.
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lol, "Oh yeah, the goo in the luggage compartment, that...."

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Ox nard

Was it actually named after the nard of an ox?
Can't focus on the movie

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This is my internal security card.
Respect my authority!

@Violinknitter Does leather have protein? A lot of the old suitcases were made of leather. #Monsterdon #SpaceMasterX7

After turning the airplane around and flying for a bit, the Blood Rust monster starts oozing out of the cargo comparment so we evacuate a passenger room and seal it in. But then it pushes its way outside of the airplane and starts enveloping the windows, and so everyone screams.

The pilots try to do an emergency landing, which must be a belly landing because the slime monster has enveloped their landing gear.

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@apLundell I wonder if that would qualify it as a scavenger

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I need you to land the plane in a bucket of hydrochloric acid
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Oxnard

They may want to refresh the name and marketing for that town

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@cd0 #monsterdon

Well of course, they had to have a place to go smoke!

wait why is it a good idea to bring the deadly fungus back to a super populated city instead of sending it on to an isolated island in the middle of the ocean? #monsterdon

@SordidAmok 50 SF is just fun like that

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"oh hey it's me"
and with that the entire plot is resolved #monsterdon

Exciting shuffling-around-in-the-aisle-of-the-plane action

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The constant droning really reminds me that we're on a plane

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Our passengers are upset that the airplane is turning around, but Army Man has looked into the baggage compartment and found more fungus monster.

Army Man asks why Typhoid Laura ran away, and she explains that she didn't want to be involved in a scandal. He reassures her by saying her anonymity will be kept.

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he could have just asked if any of these ladies knew Dr Palmer, none of them seem to have a good poker face.

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Is it good or bad if the fungus attacks now and they crash in the ocean? Can the space spores swim? Are they allergic to salt water?
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Search the brunettes for fungal infections and get back to me

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@klu9 It's all about filling-up the theaters? or drive-in parking lots? Selling popcorn and soda?

Apparently, they didn't care the sold it as sci-fi with a name like that

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lol, can't believe how the sartorial the process of elimination has become...

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yes fungus blobs. more fungus blobs!

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Nice sass from the buyer

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none of those questions would identify the right woman in this case

@gblues @OldRustBucket lol, that little bird... #monsterdon

"...I touch it up.... WITH SPORES!!!"

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OMG, the orchestral sting after "I must admit I do touch it up a bit" made me HOWL with laughter. #monsterdon

Or they could make the sensible decision and just turn back regardless

but noooo

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#monsterdon apparently blood rust feeds exclusively on luggage

luggage fungus. almost as hard to get rid of as bed bugs

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You can tell this is science fiction because there's a child on the plane but they're not screaming their head off. #Monsterdon

Huh. I wonder who that’s for.

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Hm, 4 man crew. (Though were 5 man crews a thing at that time?)

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Listen buddy, I'm not explaining all the good looking brunettes on this plane. #monsterdon

"We will hopefully maintain this altitude for most of the flight, unless someone's goo thwarts our plans"

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I'm sorry, clear the lounge?!?! #monsterdon

So is this plane a DC-4? DC-6?

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#monsterdon A day late, a dollar short. The hotel manager is a creep. He knows way too much, and the room has a disturbing echo.

We get an extended takeoff sequence with pictures of the airliner from the ground, from the passenger cabin and from the four-man cockpit, and then from outside at night.

And then a sequence where the flight attendees go down the hallway offering people blankets. And then an inflight instructions read by one of the stewardess.

I'm thinking this might have been included because air passenger service was still pretty novel in the 1950s.

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So they're not going to ground the plane? Good grief. #Monsterdon #SpaceMasterX7

again using "good-looking" as the only descriptor
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Ah the days when they would hold planes for people

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just walk off the street and have a plane ticket in five minutes, is that possible now?

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Ok wait! Why is she running again? #Monsterdon

He should really answer the phone with ‘talk to The Hand’. #Monsterdon #SpaceMasterX7

#monsterdon We've got the #SuddenStringSection. They've finally showed up... lazy layabouts!

"Five'll get ya ten that's a FUNGUS!!"

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he's gonna hit it with the phone

that'll kill it

those old phones would kill anything

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It'd be great if she got a big long nose like that one episode of I Love Lucy

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Anyway, Typhoid Laura got an opening on her flight, so she left the hotel, leaving some clues behind. The feds find her hotel after she left and conclude that she's dyed her hair, also the thing she dropped turned into a spore monster, so she continues spreading spores.

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"And she had eyebrows, the kind you pull out with pliers, you know?"

Hoboy. 🤦‍♂️

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I generally dislike cop shit and border restrictions, but I kind of think if you're dealing with "Fungus Spores From Space That Might Kill Everyone On Earth" then maybe the government should, I dunno, stop every plane from flying until they find Typhoid Mary.

This should be a State of the Union address situation where Eisenhower or whoever is like "My fellow Americans, we have spores from space that might kill everyone. We have to turn the airplanes off."

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@allanb I'm an old fart - I can remember VW beetles at a <$2K price point

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@YsengrinWolf That's really what they cost back then, even in the 60s
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#monsterdon Soft... pouting breasts. Birthing hips, perfectly shaped vulva…

I feel like this could easily have been turned into a comedy of error with her on the run but radios, newspapers, and tvs keep giving away more info about her at the funniest moments.
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"Her assumed name..."Miss Fanjita Boogaloo"

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Moe is describing almost every aspect of her appearance as “nice”.

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This *scene *could have been cut from the film.
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Hawaii is brand new, ma'am. We're still putting mayonnaise on pineapples. Shall I put you on the waiting list?

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Poor Laura wanders into a cafe and because she has the worst luck as soon as she wanders in an Emergency Police Bulletin plays on the TV showing the composite portrait of her and describing what she is wearing, so she furtively bolts outside then checks into a hotel under a fake name and reserves another plane flight.

Weirdly, the hotel has a dude who checks her in and then pulls open the TV's antennae for her. Naturally the Emergency Police Bulletin plays again.

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I absolutely expected the film to fade from the composite sketch directly to her face. Credit for avoiding the obvious cut!

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A Tale of 22 Phone Calls

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'50s cafe scene, awesome!

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"Oh they'll take care of you" *gunshots off screen* #Monsterdon #SpaceMasterX7

"And she had a pair of gams that go all the way to…"

"Sir, we're working on her face here. Please try to stay focussed."

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Continuing in this movie's determination to have weird scenes between its monologues, we get a sequence where the feds get the cabbie to help make a Wanted picture for the woman using transparent plastic sheets that have different drawings of eyes and mouths and hair on them, thus assembling a composite portrait for her when overlaid.

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do ladies pull out their eyebrows with pliers???? yikes.

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Moe is building his fantasy woman
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Cool, 1950s Identi-kit.

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Tor Johnson should be in this

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#Monsterdon next on jackass, two dudes setting each other on fire

I think "the spores from space that eventually multiply and kill everything they touch" is a pretty dangerous #monsterdon monster.

Like a godzilla will eventually fuck off into the sea. And a vampire or werewolf isn't going to eat everyone, but the spores might kill everyone, so this is a Keter level SCP for sure.

We should just follow the cab driver, Rettinger. I bet he could get up to hijinks.

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"The action of this movie was described using passive voice, to prevent the audience from getting too excited."

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Scientists love their flame throwers

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"excuse me, do you have a light?"

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Yes. We can see that it's a helicopter. But why show when you can belabor. #monsterdon

Movie if you'd showed a patch of blood rust in the train early on before introducing it with dialogue, it would be better.

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#monsterdon Totally dull cop, APB right there and he's totally dull. Nope, that's okay little piglet. Just drink your coffee. Have a donut.