The Bubble (1966)

Sherpix
Directed by Arch Oboler
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(3D Blu-ray, Kino Lorber)

A woman goes into labor while traveling with her husband and a pilot in a small plane. They make an emergency landing on a highway near a town, which they soon discover is populated by people who seem to repeat the same tasks over and over every day. Unable to make sense of the people or figure out where they are, once their baby is born they try to drive out of town. They encounter a clear plastic barrier which seems to surround the entire town. They hole up in a mill and try to dig under it. Meanwhile, people are randomly pulled into the sky by an unseen terror, which the husband speculates are aliens which have entrapped them in some kind of human zoo. It all plays like an extended episode of the Twilight Zone, filmed on an obvious studio back lot. The real highlight here is "Space-Vision", a 3-D process, and the plot frequently comes to a halt to indulge in pointy objects being thrust at the camera or to dangle a tray of beer in mid air. The Kino Lorber release restores the full-length version and in super widescreen, with 3-D restoration by the 3-D Film Archive.