Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet
3.6 /10 1 Votes
Duration Country US / USSR | 3.6/10 IMDb Genre Adventure, Sci-Fi Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Director Pavel KlushantsevCurtis Harrington Release date 1 August 1965 Cast (Prof. Hartman, Lunar 7), (Dr Marsha Evans, Vega), John Bix (John the Robot), Gennadi Vernov (Andre Ferneau, Sirius), Georgi Zhzhyonov (Hans Walter, Sirius), (Allen Sherman, Vega)Similar movies Roger Corman produced Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet and Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet is a 1965 American science fiction film, one of two versions adapted for Roger Corman from the Soviet science fiction movie Planeta Bur (Planet of the Storms), scripted by Aleksandr Kazantsev from his novel and directed by Pavel Klushantsev. Curtis Harrington oversaw the editing and dubbing of principal portions of the source film, and directed new principal scenes featuring Basil Rathbone and Faith Domergue. The resulting new film was then syndicated to television by American-International Television Inc.
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Plot
The film essentially follows the story of the Soviet original, with Rathbone and Domergue replacing two Soviet actors in roles as space-station monitors of the primary action. The rest of the film stars the remaining Soviet players, dubbed.
In the revised telling, it is 2020 and the Moon has been colonized. After traveling 200,000,000 miles, the first group of men land on Venus, where they find a prehistoric world in which the crew are attacked by various monsters, plants, etc.
Cast
Production
The American-made scenes were shot at the same time as Queen of Blood, another film directed by Harrington that was developed around the story of, and footage from, a Soviet film (and which also used incidental effects shots from Planeta Bur). Basil Rathbone and Faith Domergue shot their scenes in half a day using the same costumes and on the same set as Queen of Blood. While Harrington considered Queen of Blood good enough to keep his name on, he is credited in this film as "John Sebastian", derived from Johann Sebastian Bach.
Reception
In a retrospective on Soviet science fiction film, British director Alex Cox called Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet "an act of cinematic cannibalism."
References
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