The crew varies between treating Carruthers as a man innocent until proven guilty and avoiding him as a murderous monster spinning tall tales for the gullible. Liftoff is briefly delayed by an opened hatch left unattended, but this is sealed in no time. Carruthers is given free run of the ship on its return to Earth - there is simply nowhere for him to run, and sabotaging the ship will doom him as well. His claims of an unknown creature having killed his friends are dismissed as either a cold man either trying to save his skin, or a good man who has done something horrid and gone mad as a result. It is the future year (for 1958, anyway) 1973 and a rocket crew has landed on Mars to arrest and bring home for trial the only survivor of the prior expedition, Colonel Edward Carruthers, who stands accused of murdering his crewmates for their supplies, panicking into treachery when rescue seemed uncertain. It was portrayed by the late Ray Corrigan. It is likely his thoroughness that led to such offhand references as the ship having artificial gravity, when small plot points like that were often ignored by lesser films of the era. The script was written by Jerome Bixby, author of The Twilight Zone classic It's A Good Life whose premise he contributed to the original Star Trek episode Charlie X. Both the look of the creature and the claustrophobia of the enclosed rocket that becomes an inescapable stalking ground were said by Ridley Scott to be huge influences on the 1979 feature film Alien. It is the titular antagonist of the 1958 feature film It! The Terror from Beyond Space. It is the simple designation of a savage humanoid alien given by two separate rocket crews to Mars, both of which see each other killed by the creature, in the first instance almost to a one. Help improve this article by improving formatting, spelling and general layout - least it fall victim to an Omega Effect Darkseid has declared that this article requires immediate Cleanup in order to meet a higher standard.
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