UFO: Take Them Alive

Name: UFO: Take Them Alive
Genre: Science Fiction, Action, Thriller
Released: 1972-08-15
Duration: 1 h 38 min
Cast: Ed Bishop, Wanda Ventham, Grant Taylor, George Sewell, Michael Billington

1972, Italian. Directed by Gerry Anderson & Ken Turner & Alan Perry & David Lane & David Tomblin.

SHADO receive a report that a former Olympic champion has disappeared from a farm in the English countryside, thinking it might be an alien abduction, Colonel Paul Foster is dispatched to track down the UFO and eliminate it.

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Runtime: 1h 38m
Post-credits: None listed
Language: Italian
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Released: 15 August 1972
Original title: UFO - Prendeteli Vivi
Country: Italy, United Kingdom
Written by: Ruric Powell, Tony Barwick, Gerry Anderson

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UFO: Take Them Alive runs 98 minutes (1h 38m).

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UFO: Take Them Alive (1972) was directed by Gerry Anderson and Ken Turner and Alan Perry and David Lane and David Tomblin and stars Ed Bishop, Wanda Ventham, Grant Taylor.