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It is a good thing that John Baxter has not so much given short shrift on science fiction films of the silent era, but he does not even mention ?Algol? (Germany); when the book was published in 1970, it was believed that Algol was lost, but apparently a print was shown at MOMA in 2010 ? nevertheless, stills existed at that time to show that this production was quite remarkable. It has been said that Algol had a palpable effect on Lang when he produced ?Woman on the Moon.? That said, at least some scholarship has been extended and is appreciated.
Still, there is a lot of questionable taste and sarcasm to be found in these pages. While praising the imagery of Menzies? ?Things to Come? Baxter overlooks the more vulgar aspects of ?Invaders from Mars.? Baxter talks about the shifting eyes of the Martian leader as appearing intelligent, but the creature looks like an uncomfortable actor in a gelatinous costume, one in which a hole has been cut to encompass the face. To my eyes, this is not at all convincing.
Baxter makes other obvious errors. He calls the Ymir, the so-named creature from Venus in ?Twenty Million Miles to Earth,? a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Even Harryhausen acknowledged the feline aspect of his creature. He talks about the obviously-dead astronaut in ?2001? as struggling when retrieved by Kier Dullea, but Gary Lockwood is not struggling at all ? simply rotating after being thrown into space by HAL.
While this book does not really bridge the gap between fanzine sensibilities and cinema scholarship, at least it does not back away from low-budget programmers. Baxter does give due credit to the talent of Jack Arnold. The effete tone is what would keep me from giving a whole-hearted recommendation.
