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Pipe-smoking Johnny and his floozie Helen are spending an enjoyable evening at Johnny’s desert mansion when a meteor crashes down upon them from the firmament. They immediately head over to Pete Davis Flying Circus and his open-cockpit Bell 47B, whereupon the romantic threesome is treated to an air tour of the crash site. Nary a hair is mussed.

Johnny sees something. Wants to stick his fingers into the jello. Changes his mind. Makes for tarty Helen and Pete instead, just in time to witness the forces of good and evil arriving. We know by the music that Johnny won’t be swayed, and, indeed, he and that slut (defined as an untidy housewife back in the 50s for those of you who think I’m overdoing it) Helen almost crash into the Eye of Sauron on the way to someplace else.

It’s the Joshua trees!

In typical fashion, small-town Johnny doesn’t know when to keep his mouth shut. Together with his dime-a-dance-girl and schoolteacher, Helen, they are intent on convincing hellbilly heaven’s residents that ALIENS ARE COMING! Sheriff Fife is convinced when electrical parts go missing.

Oh-oh. Something is going on with…

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