| The Phantom Planet | |
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| Directed by | William Marshall |
| Produced by | Fred Gebhardt Hugo Grimaldi Leo A. Handel Robert Kinoshita |
| Screenplay by | William Telaak Fred De Gorter Fred Gebhardt |
| Story by | Fred Gebhardt |
| Starring | Dean Fredericks Coleen Gray Francis X. Bushman |
| Cinematography | Elwood J. Nicholson |
| Distributed by | American International Pictures |
| Release date(s) | December 13, 1961 (United States) |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Phantom Planet (1961) is a science fiction film directed by William Marshall.[1]
Footage from the film was used in a 2010 advertising campaign for La Quinta Inns and Suites, an American hotel chain. The film was also riffed in a 1998 episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.[2]
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The lead character, astronaut Frank Chapman, played by Dean Fredericks, while traveling through space encounters a race of tiny people on a distant planet. Due to the planet's unusual atmosphere, he is shrunk to six inches in size. Before he finds the remedy to this situation, he is lured by two beautiful women and decides to help the inhabitants of the planet battle an invading race of monsters known as the Solarites.