I agree it's annoying but I think it's a bit more complex.
If I google "Stranger from Venus IMDB" (without quotes) the first result I get is "Immediate Disaster (1954) - IMDb", however if I click on that I get an imdb page headed "Stranger from Venus (1954)". I assume I get the latter because I am in a country, the UK, where Stranger from Venus has always been the title. Maybe it's only if you are in the USA you get "Immediate Disaster (1954)", the US theatrical release title.
In the days before worldwide internet publicity and almost simultaneous releases it was quite common for the US to rename UK films for the US release (it occasionally happened the other way round but not as often).
I've noticed that DVD releases of older films tend to revert to the original title so US viewers may now be more aware of the original title, whereas they were unlikely to ever know it at all twenty or more years ago.
I certainly think that, even if they kept their present system, the original title should be more prominently displayed by IMDB. It's easily missed at the moment.
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DorianGray502
8 years ago
___I agree. I looked up Patricia Neal and couldn't figure out why this film wasn't listed. It took a bit of googling and film by film count before I saw the annomoly.
___I think Neal must have thought lighting would strike twice. She was a very good actress, so this was kind of a dog to appear in. It didn't do anything for Neal's career.
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richardchatten
8 years ago
As a Brit it grates that if you look up my favourite movie - A Matter of Life and Death - on the IMDb, the page heading in enormous letters reads Stairway to Heaven, with A Matter of Life and Death (original title) buried small and inconspicuous below it. Surely it's within their power to set an example by breaking this bad habit and displaying the original British release title of British movies as the main one. If the editors like I'll volunteer to do the donkey work myself...!
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