| Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet | |
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| Directed by | Pavel Klushantsev Curtis Harrington |
| Produced by | George Edwards Roger Corman Stephanie Rothman |
| Written by | Curtis Harrington |
| Starring | Basil Rathbone Faith Domergue Marc Shannon Gennadi Vernov(uncredited) Georgi Zhzhyonov (uncredited) |
| Music by | Ronald Stein |
| Cinematography | Vilis Lapenieks Arkadi Klimov |
| Editing by | Leo H. Shreve |
| Distributed by | American International Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 1 August 1965 |
| Running time | 78 min |
| Country | / |
| Language | English |
Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet is a 1965 science fiction film directed by Curtis Harrington. The film is an American adapted and edited version of the Russian science fiction movie Planeta Bur (Planet of the Storms) directed by Pavel Klushantsev, with Curtis Harrington filming extra scenes featuring Basil Rathbone and American actors for the US/English speaking market.
In the story, it is 2020 and the Moon has been colonized. After travelling 200,000,000 miles, the first group of men land on Venus, a prehistoric world, where the crew are attacked by various monsters, plants, etc.
While Harrington considered Queen of Blood, another film that was edited together in a similar way, good enough to keep his name on, in this film he is credited as "John Sebastian", in homage to Johann Sebastian Bach.
This edit of the film also forms the basis of another edit of Planeta Bur, Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women.
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Curtis Harrington removed all original credits to hide the fact that this was not his movie, thus some soviet actors remained completely uncredited while others were given fake names.
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