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Oh, this was a bad one, with most scenes consisting of actors talking at each other, and the alien of the title not allowed to communicate or suggest their intentions or do much of anything. And yet one of the characters tries to murder him out of nowhere. Sure it's an old film, but they still knew back then how stories and films are supposed to work, and that doing all the filming in under a week was probably not a winning strategy. The setting of the film became a little more intelligible halfway through when they began to have a portrayal of actual Scots, but those characters weren't given anything to work with either. If it were a little more overt in its xenophobia I would drop my rating down to a single star.