USA, 1965
78m
35mm film, “filmed in Pathecolor”
mono, English
An American science fiction film Curtis Harrington using the pseudonym John Sebastian. It is a companion piece to Queen of Blood (1965) which also used footage from the Russian science fiction film Planeta Bur (1962).
Plot Summary
In the year 2020, a mission to Venus falls foul of the prehistoric monsters that live there. A volcanic eruption adds further to their problems as they try to discover what happened to the planet's original inhabitants, The human-like Venusians.
Credits
* = uncredited
Crew
Filmgroup *
Executive Producer: Roger Corman *
Produced by: George Edwards
Associate Producer: Stephanie Rothman
Production Manager: Gary Kurtz
Script Supervisor: Barbara Bohrer
Director of Photography: Vilis Lapenieks
Film Editor: Leo Shreve
Music by: Ronald Stein
Sound: Harold Garver
Re-recording: Producer's Sound Services
Sound Effects: Nelson Corso
Costume Supervisor: Sharon Compton
Make-up: William Condos
Hair Styles: George Spicer
Titles from the Paintings of: John Cline
Art Director: Albert Locatelli
Set Decorator: Leon Smith
Property Master: Carl Schanzer
Cast
Basil Rathbone (Professor Hartman)
Faith Domergue (Dr Marsha Evans)
Marc Shannon
Christopher Brand
John Bix (John the robot)
Lewis Keane
Robert Chantal [real name: Gennadi Vernov] [Andre Ferneau]
Kurt Boden [real name: Georgiy Zhzhonov] [Hans Walters]
Alternative Titles
Prehistoric Planet
Voyage to a Prehistoric Planet
Links
See also
The Star Dreamer (2002)
Includes extracts from
Planeta Bur (1962)
References
Books
American International Pictures: A Comprehensive Filmography by Rob Craig pp.396-398
Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Science Fiction by Phil Hardy (ed) p.246-247
Faster and Furiouser: The Revised and Fattened Fable of American International Pictures by Mark Thomas McGee pp.240
Feature Films, 1960-1969: A Filmography of English-language and Major Foreign-language United States Releases by Harris M. Lentz III p.510
Reference Guide to Fantastic Films by Walt Lee p.527 – credits
Rock ‘n' Roll Monsters: The American International Story by Bruce G. Hallenbeck pp.181-182
