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What seems to be Red Planet Mars is actually Venus in all her pre-historic glory where dinosaurs, large lizards (looking like sleeztacks from "Land of the Lost") and Venus Flytraps the size of a cow are able to survive on a planet that science has determined is way too hot for anything to flourish on let alone earthlings. But in the mind of some filmmaker with great dramatic license, that's all hogwash and men can not only go there, they can drive around in a souped-up sports car that can fly several feet off the ground without the benefit of wheels. The drive-in crowd may have loved this sort of thing, but they could also find other things to occupy their time with during boring sequences. Sillier than even Ed Wood's most hideous "Z" graders, this will make you laugh at the total ridiculousness of it, especially the obvious stock footage and the hairstyle that Howard Hughes' former protégée, Faith Domergue, must wear, which resembles an out-of-shape Viking helmet that was spray painted black. Basil Rathbone is also on for a few meaningless scenes. Poorly photographed with hollow sound, this film's acting highlight is by the creatures who thanks to a lack of dialog give better performances than the human actors.

You've gotten hold of a bunch of really cool footage from a Russian sci-fi epic about cosmonauts exploring the surface of the planet Venus. What do you do? Why, you cannibalise and re-dub it to make at least two completely different films, that's what you do! Yes, just like "Queen of Blood", the dream team of Roger Corman, Curtis Harrington and Stephanie Rothman crank out another epic space B-feature in under a week and for about $8. And it's great fun into the bargain.Basil Rathbone, on what looks like the same lunar base set from QoB, and playing pretty much the same character under a different name, is a scientist heading the first mission to land men (and a robot - but not women, she has to stay up in the orbiter and mind the store) on Venus. Faith Domergue, her starlet days over, is the 'astronette' stuck in orbit like a female Michael Collins - the space guy, not the Irish Republican Army one. Both of these performers appear courtesy of new footage shoehorned into the original movie, and therefore communicate only via radio with the main cast and John the Robot, a much more impressive piece of tech than the grating Robbie of "Lost in Space" fame. If only Robbie had tried to fling Will Robinson into an extraterrestrial lava flow like John attempts with two of his erstwhile friends here.Great pulp SF fun ensues, with great spacesuit and robot design, plus a cool hover car that beats Luke Skywalker's by a mile. Our cosmonaut pals battle with lizard-men, a flying reptile something like a Ramphoryncus / pteranodon hybrid, and the previously benign John, who goes from toppling rock towers to fashion bridges for his compadres to giving up halfway through piggybacking them through magma and deciding to chuck 'em in. Mental stuff, well worth a laugh when drunk, along with the pseudo-serious meditations on survival and evolution, and the possibilities of a Venusian civilisation.I'm a fan of these hybrid re-edit movies, cf: any Hong Kong ninja movie made by Godfrey Ho, and this one is done particularly well - even the dubbing on the Russian footage matches up with the actor's lip movements. To be honest, if i didn't already know the film's background i probably wouldn't have guessed at all. Highly recommended to those with a love for the backwaters of SF cheese and a sense of the absurd.Now to track down "Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women", which i am told uses some of the same footage but with the added incentive of Mamie van Doren in a bikini. Sounds like trash movie heaven to me. I'm in.

Well, having now explored a bit of background for this film, much has now been explained like the words not moving with the lips of the actors and the planet, costumes, and special effects of the astronauts on Venus being so much more superior than the scenes with Faith Domergue and Basil Rathbone in white lab coats and little else of any cost. Quickie director/producer and later mogul Roger Corman lifted a Soviet science fiction film and then made a few adjustments and added some "American" scenes with Domergue and Rathbone under the direction of Curtis Harrington. I agree with many of the reviewers that the Soviet film is rather good. I would have enjoyed seeing it in its natural form. That film, based on what I saw here, had vision. But this film is not Corman's nor Harrington's but rather nothing more than stolen(whether it be legally or not) property. And let's face it - Harrington's additions are so poorly crafted and acted that they detract from the film rather then add to them. Basil, only a couple of years from death, looks soooo tired. Faith has all the vitality of cardboard in her scenes. She is the epitome of wooden acting -and it is easy to understand why as she has no one to really talk to or act off. The film in this form has only maybe six or seven brief scenes with Harrington's additions. The rest is a fairly innovative Soviet film definitely worth a peek. but let's not give undue credit to anyone who is not Soviet here just for taking another's product and repackaging it. You also must realize that the silly dialog and loose ends this picture have are due to the film being "squeezed" into something it was not meant to be.

Getting to watch this film again after a full year, I discovered that two versions of it exist on cheapo DVDs from differing companies. (The differences may have been due to time demands from TV broadcast.) I'll call them A and B.Version B is slightly longer than A; it includes more snippets from the original Russian sci-fi film (Planet of Storms) and fewer interjections from AIP. - Basil Rathbone disappears in the final third of the film. The color is better. The ending is more melodramatic. A crucial line from A disappears from B, yet a reference to it remains - the Robot John bidding farewell to his creator, Dr. Kerns - a humanizing touch that gives us to wonder about the development of the Robot as a character.Of both versions, what must be said is they remain the only remnants Americans are likely to see of what appears to have been a fine Russian sci-fi film. The original cinematography is B-movie level, but quite good on that basis. The characters are fairly well-developed as individuals, which is surprising for a Russian film of the period. But then, the film develops along the lines of classical Romanticism, rather than the 'socialist realist' aesthetic approved in Russia at the time. The special effects are really not at all bad for the time. The story is one of discovery - of the joy of adventure that was once scientific exploration. I don't know how we lost this, considering that much of the earth's depths and all of outer space remain frontiers, but it is good to see it again, even if only in retrospect.The low rating of this film at IMDb is senseless. Once more young viewers reveal they have little taste and no sense of history. Which means their opinions count for nothing.