The main problem with films of the late 1960s is that many of them were made in the late 1960s.This is a fairly good 1966 Cold War science-fiction thriller that's sunk in large part because it was made in 1966 (and not released until two years later; leading man Dan Duryea and special effects guru John Fulton were both dead and buried by the time this thing flew into the 3 or 4 theatres in which it played). Which leads me to speculate (based on the 99¢ Store special effects seen here) that Fulton (who'd done The Invisible Man in 1933, for heaven's sake) had keeled over before being able to do any of the effects; when 2001: A Space Odyssey was released and was a hit, somebody dug this out of mothballs, had some quickie special effects done in Mexico (or by a Junior High School art class) and got whatever bookings they could out of it. Some jet fighters see a flying saucer that then crashes somewhere in the mountains of China, and CIA man Duryea gets involved, putting a team together of crack pilots and scientists (a team of, oh, 4 people, you know) to sneak into that country and retrieve it without the Commie Chinese knowing. On their way there, they discover a team of Russkies doing the same thing, and they start out as rivals but soon bond together (sort of) to evade the Chinese and grab that saucer. There's even a bit of romance between an American pilot and beautiful Russian scientist (Lois Nettleton, who is about as Russian as William Bendix). Good things about the film: the main cast is earnest and the script offers them possibilities, although director Frank Telford takes all the possibilities back that he possibly can. The Cold War setting is fun, and who doesn't like flying saucer movies? Bad things about the film: the supporting cast all guest-starred at one point or another on The Monkees, which is really distracting and makes your Russian enemies seem rather buffoonish, particularly when waiting for Dan Duryea to belt out 'Daydream Believer.' Worst, baddest thing about the special effects: • The flying saucer model is grey; the one that flies is blue. • When the crescent moon is shown, you can see the stars behind the dark part. • The saucer doesn't cast a shadow when parked. • The same shot of the Chinese army being hit by a hand grenade is shown at least three times in a row; might've missed some, I was laughing too hard. • The depiction of the planet Saturn has to be seen to be believed. Seriously. I can't even describe what these poor folks are looking at when they look out the ship's window (yeah, they get it flying) and see Saturn. Really. Seriously. Rent or buy this movie and fast-forward to the 'looking at Saturn out the window' scene. It's worth it. Million-dollar Dialog: Scientist Bob Hastings(!) to the pilot on how the ship flies: 'It's being drawn to some magnetic attraction: Mars, Jupiter, your anus.' And, joining such gems as The Space Children and Fire Maidens from Outer Space, Olive Films gives us this in HD on Blu-ray, a real plus as it helps us enjoy the dirt and scratches on the ancient stock footage of jets scrambling into the air to battle a flying saucer that would make Ed Wood wince.