cult film freak: RICHARD DEVON ORBITS DICK MILLER IN 'WAR OF THE SATELLITES'

Written by James M. Tate / 10/13/2025 / No comments / dick miller , eric sinclair , fifties , jared barclay , michael fox , richard devon , roger corman , science-fiction , susan cabot

RICHARD DEVON ORBITS DICK MILLER IN 'WAR OF THE SATELLITES'

10/13/2025 | No comment

Dick Miller & Richard Devon in WAR OF THE SATELLITES Year: 1958 Rates: ****

Roger Corman's cold-war science-fiction thriller WAR OF THE SATELLITES puts two of his otherwise most intense actors in somewhat innocuous leading roles, thrust into space within the titular rocketship-like satellite where another Corman actor is used to his full potential...

Enter one-dimensionally-heroic Dick Miller and Susan Cabot: he was the murderous sociopath from A BUCKET OF BLOOD while she was the ferocious WASP WOMAN, the gun-moll from MACHINE-GUN KELLY and the manipulative SORORITY GIRL... both literally passengers in a vehicle belonging almost completely to tall/swarthy Richard Devon...

Richard Devon and Susan Cabot in WAR OF THE SATELLITES

Who plays an initially serious-minded scientist possessed by an alien to take over the ship to doom mankind, foreshadowing STAR TREK episodes of a hidden menace that the crew-members eventually realize: providing tight pockets of edgy suspense, twofold: Devon must hide his secret agenda while the others, including young astronaut Jared Barclay, pretend they don't know a thing...

Ultimately providing a horror-genre body-count along with the orbiting science-fiction including neat-looking dutch-angle corridors and whooshing doors... and best yet, a film-stealing role for Richard Devon, proving to be Corman's most formidable lead antagonist before decades of cameo-role mobsters wasted on episodic television.

Dick Miller and Susan Cabot in WAR OF THE SATELLITES

Dick Miller in WAR OF THE SATELLITES

Jared Barclay in WAR OF THE SATELLITES

Dick Miller in WAR OF THE SATELLITES

Susan Cabot in WAR OF THE SATELLITES

Richard Devon in WAR OF THE SATELLITES

Roger Corman in WAR OF THE SATELLITES

Richard Devon and Jared Barclay in WAR OF THE SATELLITES

Richard Devon and Susan Cabot in WAR OF THE SATELLITES

Richard Devon in WAR OF THE SATELLITES

Susan Cabot in WAR OF THE SATELLITES

Richard Devon and Eric Sinclair in WAR OF THE SATELLITES

Colorized ensemble from War of the Satellites with Dick Miller, Richard Devon and Susan Cabot

Spanish Poster for WAR OF THE SATELLITES

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