TARGET EARTH Released November 7, 1954 Produced by Herman Cohen, and directed by Sherman A. Rose, TARGET EARTH stars Richard Denning, Kathleen Crowley, Virginia Grey, and Whit Bissell. The film was distributed by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation. It is based on the Paul W. Fairman novel Deadly City. Set in a large, deserted city, the film's storyline follows a small group of people overlooked during the city's mass evacuation, carried out because of a sudden invasion by hostile robotic beings