Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet

Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet
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)
Georgiy Zhzhonov (uncredited)
Music by Ronald Stein
Cinematography Vilis Lapenieks
Arkadi Klimov
Edited by Leo H. Shreve
Distributed by AIP-TV
Release dates
1 August 1965
Running time
78 min
Country US / USSR
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 Soviet 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 traveling 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.

Credits

Production

The film was shot at the same time as Queen of Blood, which also used footage from Planet of Storms. Basil Rathbone shot his scenes in half a day using the same costumes and on the same sets as Queen of Blood. Faith Domergue, a friend of producer George Edwards, was bought in to appear in some additional sequences.[1]

The budget for this and Queen of Blood came to $33,052.[1]

Release

Unlike Queen of Blood it seems this film was never released theatrically and went straight to television.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Ray, Fred Olen (1991). The New Poverty Row: Independent Filmmakers as Distributors. McFarland. pp. 53–55.

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