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''The Flying Saucer'' is a 1950 independently made American black-and-white science fiction film, written by Howard Irving Young from an original story by Mikel Conrad who also produced, directed, and stars with Pat Garrison and Hantz von Teuffen. The film was distributed in the United States by Film Classics Inc. ''The Flying Saucer'' is the first feature film to deal with the (then) new and hot topic of flying saucers.〔Warren 2009, p. 6.〕 Flying saucers, or alien craft shaped like flying disks or saucers, were first identified and given the popular name in 1947 on June 24, 1947, when private pilot Kenneth Arnold reported nine silvery, crescent-shaped objects flying in tight formation. A newspaper reporter coined the snappy tagline, "flying saucers", which captured the public's imagination.〔Wright, Bruce Lanier. ("Invaders from Elsewhere: Flying Saucers, Weirdness, and Pop Culture." ) ''Strange Magazine''. Retrieved: January 8, 2015.〕 The film has no relationship and should not be confused with the later Ray Harryhausen science fiction film ''Earth vs. the Flying Saucers'', released by Columbia Pictures. ==Plot== American Intelligence officials learn that Soviet spies have begun exploring a remote region of the Alaskan Territory in search of answers to the worldwide reports of "flying saucers." A wealthy American playboy, Mike Trent (Mikel Conrad), who was raised in that remote region, is recruited by intelligence officer Hank Thorn (Russell Hicks) to assist a Secret Service agent in exploring that area to discover what the Soviets may have found. To his pleasant surprise, Mike discovers the agent is an attractive woman named Vee Langley (Pat Garrison); they set off together and slowly become mutually attracted to each other. Their cover story is that Mike is suffering from a nervous breakdown and she is his private nurse. At Mike's family's wilderness lodge, they are met by a foreign-accented caretaker named Hans (Hantz von Teuffen), new to the job. Mike is very skeptical of the flying saucer reports until he spots one flying over the lodge. Assorted complications ensue until Mike and Vee finally discover that Hans is one of the Soviet agents who is trying to acquire the flying saucer, hidden at Twin Lakes. It turns out that the saucer is an invention of American scientist Dr. Laughton (Roy Engel). But Turner (Denver Pyle) Laughton's assistant, a communist sympathizer, has other ideas and tries to make a deal to sell the saucer to the Soviets for one million dollars. Mike's trip to Juneau to see old friends including Matt Mitchell (Frank Darrien), is ill-advised and when Vee tracks him down, he is in the company of a bar girl, Nanette (Virginia Hewitt). Matt gets mixed up with the Soviet agents who are trying to obtain control of the saucer. When he tries to strike a bargain with ring leader Colonel Marikoff (Lester Sharpe) at the spy's headquarters, Matt is knocked unconscious. Matt is able to escape and seeks out Mike, but they are attacked by Soviet agents, who kill Matt. Before he dies, Matt reveals the location of the saucer. Mike rents an aircraft, flies to Twin Lakes where the saucer is hidden at an isolated cabin. When he flies back to his lodge, he tries to find Vee who has tried to spirit Lawton away, but all of the trio are captured by the turncoat Taylor and a group of Soviet agents. The Soviets lead their prisoners through a secret tunnel under the glacier, an avalanche, however, wipes out the agents. Mike, Vee, and Lawton escape from the tunnel in time to see Turner fly off in the saucer, which explodes in mid-air, due to a bomb that Lawton planted on board. Their mission accomplished, Mike and Vee embrace and kiss. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Flying Saucer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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