Stranger from Venus (also known as Immediate Disaster and The Venusian) is a 1954 independently made UK second feature ('B')[1] black-and-white science fiction film, directed by Burt Balaban and starring Patricia Neal, Helmut Dantine and Derek Bond.

The stranger also asserts that he is responsible for saving the life of a recently missing car accident victim, Susan North.

After the mysterious stranger announces that he comes from the planet Venus, a guest at the inn, Arthur Walker, a high-ranking British government official (and Susan's fiancé), calls the Ministry of War to inform them of the alien's arrival.

After his communication disc, allowing him to contact the approaching spaceship, is removed from his room by a policeman, the alien quickly realises that an interplanetary meeting of minds can never take place.

Should the government carry out this warlike action, the stranger assures Walker that an immediate retaliation from an orbiting mothership would terminate all life in England.

The future now uncertain, and his peaceful mission to Earth a failure, the stranger from Venus speaks one final time to Susan North and vanishes without a trace.

This was due to a fear of legal action from 20th Century Fox, its plot being similar to Patricia Neal's earlier science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still, which in 1954 was still in theatrical re-release.

Very restrained for a science fiction subject, it is, perhaps, too conscientious in its attempt to underplay the sensational incident associated with the genre; with a country inn as its main setting, it has much in common with the average photographed play, until the brief flying saucer climax, which does succeed in building up some tension even though the outcome is obvious.

"[5] Kine Weekly wrote: "The picture has an original idea but fails to compete technically with the slap-up streamlined American coloured pseudo-scientific jobs.

Helmut Dantine takes his part seriously as the stranger, Patricia Neal is adequate as Susan, Derek Bond acts with polish as Arthur, and the supporting players, too, obviously have stage experience, but their easy manner and agreeable elocution are indifferent substitutes for spectacle.