Arch Obler, the creator of the radio show Lights Out and the man behind BWANA DEVIL The film that kicked off the 1950's 3D craze, wanted to promote a new 3D process so he came up with THE BUBBLE about a town locked in a giant bubble by aliens.
A plane is forced to land rear a small town because one of the passengers goes into labor. There they find the population acting like robots and eating weird food. They then struggle to find their way out.
Originally released at 112 minutes the film was trimmed a decade later and released at around 90 minutes in 1976. It was then trimmed even more for TV with the only two versions existing are the 90 minute reissue and 75 minute TV one. In all cases this film is simply too damn long. Playing like an extended episode of Lights Out THE BUBBLE just goes on and on with very little happening before we get to an ending that just sort of there. I saw the film flat which probably made things worse since there are the odd camera choices that only work if you see it in 3D.
While not bad as such it just kind of goes on and on and on. Watching the reissue version I found I was nodding off. I can not imagine what this film was like in a version that ran close to two hours especially if there was no 3D to distract you.
Of interest only for those who can see it in Spacevision 3D (though the version put out by Rhino with red and blue glasses is supposed to be terrible)
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