Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet
Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet | |
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American International Television | |
Release date | 1 August 1965 |
Running time | 78 minutes |
Countries | Soviet Union United States |
Language | English |
Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet is a 1965
Plot
The film essentially follows the storyline of the Soviet original, with Rathbone and Domergue replacing two Soviet actors in roles as space-station monitors of the primary action. The rest stars the remaining Soviet actors dubbed into English.
In this retelling, 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 mist-shrouded prehistoric world in which the crew are attacked by various monstrous creatures and giant plants.
Cast
- Basil Rathbone as Professor Hartman
- Faith Domergue as Dr. Marsha Evans
- Vladimir Yemelyanov (miscredited) as Cmdr. Brendan Lockhart
- Georgiy Zhzhonov (miscredited as "Kurt Boden") as Hans Walters
- Gennadi Vernov (miscredited as "Robert Chantal") as Andre Ferneau
- Georgiy Teich (miscredited) as Kern
- Yuri Sarantsev (miscredited) as Sherman
- Boris Prudkovsky[Note 1] (uncredited) as Robot John
Production
Roger Corman purchased the rights to Planet of Storms (the Soviet film Planeta Bur) and used footage from Mechte Navstrechu (A Dream Come True), as well as footage from the Soviet science fiction film Nebo Zovyot (Battle Beyond the Sun).[citation needed] to create both Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet and Queen of Blood.
The American-made scenes were shot at the same time as Queen of Blood, another science fiction film directed by Harrington that was developed around the story of, and footage used from, Soviet science fiction films. Basil Rathbone and Faith Domergue shot their scenes in half a day wearing the same costumes and shot on the same set used for Queen of Blood.[1]
Harrington later recalled: "It had to do with a couple of people orbiting the planet Venus. So, I had, instead of the Soviet actors, Faith Domergue orbiting the planet Venus. Then all the scenes with the Russians were dubbed in English. She was in touch with Basil Rathbone, who was supposedly on a Moon station. That’s all I shot. I shot about a day or two with her as she was in that ship orbiting around planet Venus. All the rest of it was just dubbed stuff".[2]
While Harrington considered Queen of Blood good enough to keep his name on it, he is screen-credited on Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet as "John Sebastian", derived from Johann Sebastian Bach.
Reception
In a retrospective on Soviet science fiction film, British director
See also
- Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women the other film adapted from material from Planeta Bur for Roger Corman
- List of American films of 1965
- List of films featuring dinosaurs
Notes
- ^ 1964 USSR free wrestling champion.
References
- ^ Ray, Fred Olen (1991). The New Poverty Row: Independent Filmmakers as Distributors. McFarland. pp. 53–55.
- ^ Madenwald, Marc (Fall 1993). "Who Slew Curtis Harrington?". Psychotronic Video. No. 16. p. 42.
- ^ Cox, Alex (June 30, 2011). "Rockets from Russia: great Eastern Bloc science-fiction films". The Guardian. Retrieved August 22, 2016.
- ^ Stanley, J. (20000 Creature Feature 3rd Edition
- ^ Gaita, Paul. "Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965)". AllMovie. Netaktion LLC. Retrieved 2022-02-16.
External links
- Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet at IMDb
- Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive