The Day Mars Invaded Earth 1962 Written by Harry Spalding and directed by Maury Dexter.
Kent Taylor is a scientist on a project to send a robot to Mars. The robot fails shortly after landing but not before it sends a powerful signal to the Earth. Kent takes a bit of a vacation to visit his family. Marie Windsor plays his somewhat estranged wife, Betty Beall and Gregg Shank play his children.
The family members start seeing each other roaming around the estate where they're staying. The distant figures don't respond to a call and quickly move out of sight. Soon they're seeing themselves and wondering what the hell is going on. We learn a bit later that the probe on Mars has worried the energy beings on the red planet and they've come to put a stop to the invasion from Earth. It even has a bit of a shock ending.
It was fairly decent for a low budget picture from Robert L Lippert. I enjoyed it even after a couple of previous viewings. You can check it out on YouTube. Link above.
The Flying Saucer 1950 Story by Mikel Conrad, screenplay by Howard Irving Young, produced and directed by Mikel Conrad. Mikel also plays the lead, a guy called Mike Trent. This is the only film Mikel directed. He'd acted in a couple of dozen films and appeared on an episode of Strange Stories. His career started in 1946 and ended in 1957.
Mike Trent is a well known playboy, he gets called back into the military to take a job for his old boss. He's to pretend he's had a nervous breakdown and take a break in the family cabin near Juno Alaska. The military is supplying a nurse, she's really Agent Vee Langley. There have been reports of flying saucers in the area and Soviet spies have been seen around Juno. Mike and Agent Vee arrive by ship and travel a short way to the cabin. It's right in the middle of some nice scenery, too bad it's a B&W film.
Mike and Agent Vee spend some time wandering around the area. Mike is skeptical of the saucer but they eventually see it flying above the cabin. As the movie plays out we meet the Soviet spies and the Commie sympathizer who wants to sell the saucer out from under his boss. The Russians say they'll pay $1,000,000. Nice but I'd want to see the money up front. Eventually the location of the flying saucer is revealed and there's a bit of murder and some fighting. Sadly it's less action packed than a guy might like.
On average it's a bit below average. It's rather padded out and reminds me of a 40s serial. I found a copy on YouTube that's better than the one I had. I might not get around to it again but who knows. Link for the movie in the title.