Space Invasion of Lapland

Space Invasion of Lapland
Swedish DVD-cover.
Directed by	Virgil W. Vogel
Produced by	Bertil Jernberg (producer) Gustaf Unger (producer)
Written by	Robert M. Fresco Arthur C. Pierce (screenplay and story)
Starring	See below
Music by	Harry Arnold Allan Johansson
Cinematography	Hilding Bladh
Editing by	Shirley Citron Tom Rolf
Release date(s)	19 August 1959
Running time	73 minutes (Sweden) 55 minutes (USA) 81 minutes (American TV version)
Country	USA, Sweden
Language	English, Swedish

Space Invasion of Lapland (Rymdinvasion i Lappland) is a Swedish / American black-and-white science fiction/horror movie from 1959 by the American director Virgil W. Vogel and the film is partly in English.

The film is known by many different English titles: Horror in the Midnight Sun, or Terror in the Midnight Sun, or Invasion of the Animal People. In the American distribution, Jerry Warren added some scenes of his own to the film.

Plot summary

After a herd of reindeer are mysteriously found dead following a meteor crash in a remote part of Lapland in northern Sweden, soldiers and a geologist are called out to investigate.

Cast

• Barbara Wilson as Diane Wilson
• Sten Gester as Erik Engström
• Robert Burton as Dr. Frederick Wilson
• Bengt Blomgren as Col. Robert Bottiger
• Åke Grönberg as Dr. Henrik
• Gösta Prüzelius as Dr. Walter Ullman
• John Carradine as Narrator (voice: English version)

Soundtrack

"Midnight Sun Lament" Based on an old Swedish melody (Music and Swedish lyrics by Gustaf Unger, English lyrics by Frederick Herbert)

External links

• Rymdinvasion i Lappland at the Internet Movie Database
• Terror in the Midnight Sun is available for free download at the Internet Archive [more]
• Rymdinvasion i Lappland at AllRovi