The Sixth Column

NR 6.4
1970 1 hr 14 min Science Fiction , TV Movie

Two different alien races are at war. Representatives of each race have landed on Earth to battle it out here, but they've taken human form and they can only spot other aliens through the use of special glasses.

  • Cast:
    Lloyd Bridges , Angie Dickinson , Harry Basch , Daniel J. Travanti , Allen Jaffe , Byron Foulger , Pepper Martin

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Reviews

FirstWitch
1970/03/10

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

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Joanna Mccarty
1970/03/11

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

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Micah Lloyd
1970/03/12

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

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Roman Sampson
1970/03/13

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

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MartinHafer
1970/03/14

The story idea behind "The Love War" is really neat. Too bad it's undone by a huge and obvious plot problem.The film is set on Earth in the present day. Two teams of aliens are having a private war among us and they look just like us. But, if the aliens use special glasses, they can see their enemies and kill them. On one side is Kyle (Lloyd Bridges) and he spends most of the film running about avoiding the other aliens and killing them when he gets the chance. Along the way, he meets an apparent human woman, Sandy (Angie Dickenson) and she sees him make one of his kills disappear! Instead of killing her or erasing her memory somehow, he brings her along with him...something that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. What makes even more sense is that he automatically assumes she's a human and NEVER uses his special glasses to see if she's the enemy. And at the end, guess what...she's an alien baddie...just like EVERYONE watching the film guessed long ago!Predictability is a serious problem and so is how quickly the pair seem to fall in love...it just makes no sense. I wish they'd just worked out the plot problems better before they filmed this one...because it had real promise.

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Gandalf_a
1970/03/15

I didn't know the title of this film until I outlined the plot on the comments section of the Guardian and someone identified it. It is a great film and an excellent plot. I always think if it stays in your mind it is well worth watching. I'm surprised no one had done a remake of it.I'm on a quest now to get a region two DVD. If you get the opportunity of seeing it it is highly recommended. I will keep on searching. I've made progress now I know the title of the film. Hopefully if enough sci-fi enthusiasts add comments here they may produce one.

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S J
1970/03/16

I saw this movie on TV when I was a lot younger but it impressed me. Mainly because despite the unlikely pairing of Loyd Bridges and Angie Dickinson in a Sci-Fi movie it worked quite well. The plot was complex but while moving quickly enough did not become garbled or incoherent as some movies do when trying to achieve the "unexpected". The partnership between the main characters develops quite naturally although it may seem cliché to some in this day and age. Perhaps much of it's charm for me is that it came before many other similar movies and was in its way a ground breaker in this genre. I would love to see it again but as another commented I have yet to see it on either tape or DVD. Not many resources even list it. The title of lost sci-fi classic is quite appropriate and I feel many sci-fi fans would enjoy it if it were available to them.

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gravity3
1970/03/17

Like most of the comments here, I'm working off of my childhood memory. But the fact that I remembered the title after all these years has to count for the quality of the storyline, low-budget or not.I have several scenes of this film stuck in my brain - which I won't give away here should we actually get a DVD box set of the Best of the Movies of the Week some day (hint, hint). But I have to go on record as saying that Spielberg's DUEL isn't the only TV film ABC produced under the Movie of the Week banner that is worthy of note. I'd venture to guess that there were a dozen of these suspense/horror/sci-fi genre films nearly as good (or better) as much of the summer movies we're seeing in theaters these days (and I'm talking about storytelling, not effects and explosions). That may not say as much about the quality of those TV movies as the lack thereof in modern films. But LOVE WAR in particular, was one I watched every time it was on and has held up - at least in my mind.I'd love to see it again, if only for the sake of nostalgia.

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