From what I've gathered, Tom Graef originally entitled it THE GARGON TERROR, but after he sold it to Warner Bros. (Exact
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Teenagers from Outer Space
Deluge69-663-991830 — 13 years ago(February 07, 2013 03:32 PM)
From what I've gathered, Tom Graef originally entitled it THE GARGON TERROR, but after he sold it to Warner Bros. (Exactly how was he able to attain that near-impossible feat?), the Warner's executives retitled it TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE to obviously sell it to the Teenage Drive-In market.
I'm curious as to how much they paid him for the legal distribution rights.
Could be considered one of the very first Indie Films.
I often wondered how it would have been if Graef had a bigger budget, better effects; etc. Within the shoddy, but oddly appealing no budget, there was an interesting story that was struggling to get out.
Notice how the first half resembled TERMINATOR?
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hobnob53 — 12 years ago(May 31, 2013 10:18 PM)
After WWII there were a lot of independently-produced films sold for distribution to the majors, and later, to smaller outfits such as AIP. One of WB's greatest box-office successes was the independently-made
Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
in 1953.
Teenagers
and Warner did louse up
that
title was one of many such low-budget films picked up by a big company, mostly sci-fi but some mysteries, westerns, etc. Not a ground-breaker in any sense, but I guess everyone made money.
However, I believe the film is indeed known as
The Gargon Terror
in Britain.