# ID this 1950's SCIFI Movie, Please

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**Created:** [March 4, 2009, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-1950s-scifi-movie-please/488215 "2009-03-04T00:21:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-1950s-scifi-movie-please/488215/1 "2009-03-04T00:21:27Z")

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I don’t know why, but this just popped into my head. This was a typical, low-budget B+W SciFi 50’s film. It was about an alien who comes to earth, with his friends-and they must live on human blood. The alien has a lot of money, so he pays bums and vagrants to come to his mansion-where they are bled dry! I can’t remember the title-anybody know?

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**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-1950s-scifi-movie-please/488215/2 "2009-03-04T02:34:29Z")

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It doesn’t quite fit your description, but the first thing to come to mind is [Not Of This Earth](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050778/) .

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**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-1950s-scifi-movie-please/488215/3 "2009-03-04T16:05:00Z")

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I gave this description to a 1950’s expert and he came up with the same answer.

Sounds like “Not of This Earth.”

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-1950s-scifi-movie-please/488215/4 "2009-03-04T22:19:58Z")

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Sounds like **Not of This Earth** to me, too. The alien had a pet blood-drainer that dropped on victims’ heads like an Evil flying umbrella. It was built by classic 50s monster-builder Paul Blaisdell (who built It that Conquered the World, with its flying “bats”, among many other things).

Roger Corman made it. He remade it twice more, once with a now-legal Tracy Lords (and much nudity)