![]() ![]() Directed by Jack Arnold, who also worked on other successful films of the genre such as ‘Creature from the Black Lagoon’ and ‘The Incredible Shrinking Man’. “The Space Children” is a 1958 science fiction film produced by Paramount Pictures. These are just some of the characters featured in the film, which develops through the interaction between children and adults, and through the struggle between scientists and the military for control of children’s psychic powers. Gamble (played by Jeanne Baird): Joe’s mother. Brewster (played by Jackie Coogan): Bud’s mother. Gamble (played by Raymond Bailey): Joe’s father. General Tate (portrayed by Russell Johnson): A senior Army officer who supports Colonel Price. Wahrman’s wife.Ĭolonel Price (played by John Eldredge): A US Army officer who seeks to take over children and their powers. Wahrman (portrayed by Adam Williams): A local scientist who studies children and the glowing orb.Īnne Brewster (played by Peggy Webber): Dr. Sandy (portrayed by Sandy Descher): One of the children with psychic powers.ĭr. Joe Gamble (played by Johnny Crawford): One of the children with psychic powers. Wahrman’s son, he is the leader of children with psychic powers. Here are the main characters of “The Space Children”:īud Brewster (played by Michel Ray): Dr. The plot unfolds through the interaction between children and adults, and through the struggle between the forces of good and evil represented by the local scientist and the American government respectively. ![]() Wahrman, their parents and other allies, the children try to resist the pressure of the military and to discover the origin of the orb. Wahrman’s son (played by Michel Ray), try to protect themselves and the sphere from the clutches of the military. However, the US military, represented by Colonel Price (played by John Eldredge), wants to take possession of the children to exploit their powers for military purposes. Wahrman (played by Adam Williams), a local scientist, takes an interest in children and their extraordinary abilities. The orb exerts a psychic influence on children, endowing them with strange telekinetic powers and mental communication with each other.ĭr. Wire services contributed to this report.The story of “Children of Space” follows a group of children who come across a mysterious glowing orb on the beach of their small town. Further arrangements were still being made, said Bob Kapit, Migdal’s brother-in-law.Ī celebration of life for the four victims will be held in nearby Kaslo on Saturday.įor information on fund-raising for Migdal, visit A coroner was expected to release Rachel Webber’s body to her mother on Thursday. The house where Webber and his daughters died was near Kootenay Lake, at the base of a hill in the small town of Johnson’s Landing. The search area included nearly 80 acres around Webber’s and Frehse’s houses. Petra Frehse, 64, lived farther up the hill and workers were unable to find her body despite digging trenches around where her house had been. “We’re all hugging our kids a little tighter because of this.”Ĭrews abandoned the search for a fourth victim of the landslide. “They were both so spiritual, such lovely individuals,” said Gossett-Seidman of the Webber sisters. Students, parents, Unity staff and friends rallied around Migdal with a fund-raising campaign. “I can’t imagine what Lynn and her family are going through,” said Peggy Gossett-Seidman, whose son Austin was a classmate of Rachel Webber’s at Unity School in Delray Beach.ĭiana Webber graduated from Unity, a pre-K-8 private school, in 2005 and Rachel Webber graduated in 2009. Workers stopped the search for several days because the area was still unstable after the landslide, caused by heavy rainfall. The house where the three were staying was buried in the landslide. ![]() ![]() The body of Valentine Webber, Migdal’s ex-husband, was found July 15 and Diana Webber’s body was found near his the next day. The Webber sisters’ mother, Lynn Migdal, a Delray Beach chiropractor, has been in Johnson’s Landing, B.C. Webber, her sister Diana, 22, and their father, Valentine, were killed in a landslide on July 12. A body found Wednesday night in southeastern British Columbia has been identified as Rachel Webber, 17, of Delray Beach. ![]()
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