A huge U.S. spacecraft crash lands in the ocean near a Sicilian fishing village. Though most of the fishermen flee, Verrico (George Khoury) and Mondello (Don Orlando) save Col. Robert Calder (William Hopper) and Dr. Sharman (Arthur Space) out of the wreckage. The men are the only men on a secret space mission to Venus that survived a mysterious disease. Dr. Judson Uhl (John Zaremba) and Maj. Gen. A.D. McIntosh (Thomas Browne Henry) come to Sicily to save them while the only local doctor, nearly-out-of-med-school Marisa Leonardo (Joan Taylor) attempts to treat them while coming down with a case of 1950s “educated woman clashes with burly hero until both agree that she should marry him and cook his meals and stop all this science nonsense” disease. Meanwhile, Pepe, the son of Verrico, steals a sample case that washes up from the wreck and sells it to Marisa’s father, Dr. Leonardo (Frank Puglia). Dr. Leonardo proceeds to be so amazed by the ever growing creature he finds in the case that he neglects to tell the Americans investigating a space craft crash and looking for a sample what he found. Eventually everyone puts two and two together, but by that point the creature has escaped. Can he be found before he grows to large to handle?![]()
