3.2
Following the discovery of a doomsday machine capable of destroying Earth, the launch of a US space mission to Venus is taken over by the military.
Bobby Van
Danny
Ruta Lee
Dr. Marion Turner
Mala Powers
Maj. Georgianna Bronski
James Craig
Dr. Haines
Grant Williams
Maj. Kurt Mason
Henry Wilcoxon
Dr. Christopher Perry
Essie Lin Chia
Girl Spy
Casey Kasem
Mission Control Officer
Lorri Scott
Lt. Katie Carlson
Denny Miller
Col. Don Price
Mike Farrell
1st Reporter
Mark Bailey
Major / Astronaut
Mary Meade
Woman Reporter
John Cestare
Raymond Mayo
Michael Christian
Director
Lee Sholem
Director
Herbert J. Leder
Director
Harry Hope
Original Story, Screenplay
Stuart J. Byrne
April 16, 2016
5
I can see the light at the end of the proverbial tunnel, as I'm nearing the end of my infamous Mill Creek 50-film 'Nightmare Worlds' pack. This was a really strange viewing experience, and honestly made me wonder if my red wine had been spiked with some hallucinogen by some ne'er-do-well prankster. It had some intriguing ideas, a big one being that the USA and USSR are afraid that China is going to destroy the world, so at the last minute, just before a scheduled space flight to investigate Venus, NASA administrators replace three of the astronauts with female counterparts, and include a mysterious large suitcase.
Though it says 1972, you can distinctly feel that it was made years earlier, before the game-changers of '2001: A Space Odyssey' and the manned space flight to the moon completely changed the way sci-fi films were made (unless you're the sad saps behind monstrosities such as 'Star Odyssey', that go on as if any relationship with the way things are in real life is an entirely accidental and unintended coincidence). Most of it was made in 1966, but funding ran out, and it shows. The filmmakers couldn't even afford the intended climax, and that shows--the film simply ends. But for all of that, this bizarre experiment of a forced Adam and Eve scenario in outer space, as a future for Earth, is decent--and it would be two generations later, when in Christopher Nolan's 'Interstellar', that this idea would be fully realized with human decency and artistic integrity.
Status:
Released
Original Language:
English
Budget:
$0.00
Revenue:
$0.00