{"id":38627,"date":"2025-03-28T19:38:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T23:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38627"},"modified":"2025-03-28T19:38:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T23:38:52","slug":"i-married-a-monster-from-outer-space-1958-starring-gloria-talbott-and-tom-tryon-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38627","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I Married a Monster from Outer Space&#8221; (1958) starring Gloria Talbott and Tom Tryon \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z032825zview_imarriedamonster.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>I Married a Monster from Outer Space <\/i>(1958)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Gene Fowler Jr.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Louis Vittes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott<\/strong><strong>, Peter Baldwin, Robert Ivers, Valerie Allen, Ty Hardin, Ken Lynch, John Eldredge, Alan Dexter, James Anderson, Jean Carson, Steve London<\/strong> and <strong>Maxie Rosenbloom<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> Is it possible? Is it true? Can humans mate with MONSTERS?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Marge Farrell (Talbott), a newlywed bride, begins to suspect that something is strange about her husband, Bill (Tryon).\u00a0 He&#8217;s become distant, cold even.\u00a0 Tom loved dogs and now any dog that comes near him begins to growl and bark.\u00a0 Things that Tom should know, he has forgotten.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then Marge begins to notice changes in other men in Tom&#8217;s social circle.\u00a0 Marge follows Tom one night and discovers an alien has taken Tom&#8217;s identity.\u00a0 Marge realizes that aliens are planning a takeover.\u00a0 But who will believe her before it is too late?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">John P. Fulton who did the special effects for <em>I Married a Monster from Outer Space<\/em> was well known and respected for his work.\u00a0 Over the course of his career, Mr. Fulton was nominated for 8 <em>Academy Awards<\/em> for Special Effects and won three.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tom Tryon retired from acting in 1969 and began a writing career.\u00a0 He is best known for his novel THE OTHER.\u00a0 Mr. Tryon wrote the screenplay for the feature film adaptation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m surprised<em> I Married a Monster from Outer Space<\/em> isn&#8217;t as popular as other horror pictures of the era.\u00a0 It is definitely an underrated gem.\u00a0 Perhaps the title hurts the film from being given a chance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>I Married a Monster from Outer Space<\/em> and the original <em>Invasion of the Body Snatchers<\/em> makes a great double feature!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><em><i>I Married a Monster from Outer Space <\/i>(1958) <\/em><\/strong>rates 4 of 5 stars<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z032825zview_imarriedamonster2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958) Director: Gene Fowler Jr. Screenplay: Louis Vittes Stars: Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61,52,17,53,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38628,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38627\/revisions\/38628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}