Mamie Van Dorenin in Peter Bogdanovich's "Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women" (1968)

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The narrator (Peter Bodganovich) explains the situation. The conditions in planet Earth have deteriorated, especially because the air is so polluted. There is need to look for somewhere else to live.
In 1998, six months after the collision of a meteor and subsequent explosion of a rocket sent to Venus, the team composed by the Astronauts Captain Alferd Kern (Georgi Tejkh/James David) and Howard Sherman (Yuri Sarantsev/Ralph Phillips) with the robot John is launched to explore Venus.
The Astronauts arrive in the Space Station Texas for refueling but they have problems while landing in Venus, and are left stranded on the planet.
Six months later, without communication, another rocket is launched to Venus to rescue the first team and explore the planet. The second ship sent by the agency MARSHA- reaches the planet. It includes Commander William "Billy" Lockhart (Vladimir Yemelyanov/Roberto Martelli), Andre Ferneau and Hans Walter (Georgi Zhzhyonov/Murray Gerard). They use a vehicle to seek Kern and Sherman, but they are attacked by a dangerous flying reptile that resembles a pterosaur.
They kill the creature without knowing that it is worshiped as a god, God Terah, by the local blond Venusian women, who like to sun-bathe in hip-hugging skin-tight pants and seashell bikinis. They use their powerful connection with nature to attempt to kill the astronauts by means of their superhuman powers, but ultimately fail.
Meanwhile John helps the two cosmonauts to survive in the hostile land.
The astronauts eventually escape from Venus, and their abandoned robot, damaged in a flow of volcanic mud and ultimately shut down by the humans for their survival, becomes, in a surprise plot twist ending, the women's new god.
A 1968 American Black & White science fiction film (a/k/a "Gill Men") directed by Peter Bogdanovich (as Derek Thomas), produced by Norman D. Wells and Roger Corman, written by Henry Ney, cinematography by Flemming Olsen, starring Starring Mamie Van Doren, Mary Marr, Paige Lee, Judy Cowart, Margot Hartman, Irene Orton, Pam Helton, Frankie Smith, Robin Smith, and Adele Valentine. Narrated by Peter Bogdanovich.
One of two films whose footage was taken from the Soviet SF film "Planeta Bur" (1962) (Planet of Storms) for producer Roger Corman. The original film was scripted by Alexander Kazantsev from his novel and directed by Pavel Klushantsev. This adaptation, made by Peter Bogdanovich, who chose not to have his name credited on the film, included new scenes added that starred Mamie Van Doren. The film apparently had at least a limited U.S. release through American International Pictures, but became better known via subsequent cable TV showings and home video sales. The film contains no footage from Planeta Bur that was not used in the earlier "Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet" (1965).
According to Bogdanovich "Planeta Bur" (1962) was a Russian science-fiction film that Roger Corman had called "Storm Clouds of Venus" that he had dubbed into English. And he came to me and said, "Would you shoot some footage with some girls? AIP won't buy it unless we stick some girls in it". So I figured out a way to work some girls in it and shot for five days, and we cut it in. I narrated it, because nobody could make heads or tails of it. Roger wouldn't let me add any sound. It was just a little cheap thing we did, and people think I directed it when I really only directed 10 minutes of it.
Bogdanovich said he had to paint out the red star on the spaceship, "in every frame. We painted in some obscure symbol that might pass for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration".
Bogdanovich hired Mamie Van Doren and several other blondes to play Venusians "because I thought everyone should be blonde on Venus. I dressed them up in rubber suits, bottoms only and put shells over their breasts. I had them traipsing around Leo Carrillo Beach for a while shooting inserts that might relate to Venus". Bogdanovich says he gave the female characters "South Sea movie names" because "it seemed right".
One of the actresses was afraid of sharks and when she was in the water they threw her a rubber fish. She got hysterical, grabbed the fish and bit its head off. He said that people did not understand the film and its new sequences when first cut together, so he added narration. He decided one of the astronauts, "the best looking one", should narrate the film. Bogdanovich wrote the narration and provided the voice, and it was the one credit he took on the film.
Bogdanovich also stated he did not claim credit as director, because "such a small piece of it is mine", although in fact his adaptation of the "Planeta Bur" (1962) material had much more original material in it than the previous version, made by Curtis Harrington. His then-wife Polly Platt worked on the film as a production designer.
There's not too much going for this curio that features Mamie Van Doren and scantily clad Venusian women. This is so awful it's brilliant.

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@Australian_Made Ай бұрын

A classic of its era 👍👍

@mikebasil4832 Ай бұрын

Agreed. 👍🏻

@hansvandenoever4445 Ай бұрын

Yes, I like,this movie. Greetings from the Netherlands.

@David-ng7cr Ай бұрын

Greetings from Canada 🇨🇦

@ReRiderChi Ай бұрын

Always appreciate great content

@marlene8344 Ай бұрын

Love these movies

@hertzair1186 Ай бұрын

Me too….love these days of future passed.

@wrsmith711 Ай бұрын

this movie is so cheesy it will go well with nachos.

@thabigshow69 28 күн бұрын

Extra 🧀 cheese plz

@user-de7jm3bl3u 18 күн бұрын

Jalapenos 👍🍻

@rick5793 16 күн бұрын

Actually I was thinking of ham, brown bread and miracle whip. Hopefully the cheese is cheddar.

@bongobob6200 Ай бұрын

Thx DPB 👍🇺🇸👍

@georgemaranville3305 Ай бұрын

I appreciate the spelling of her last name.

@ramonchirino1040 Ай бұрын

INCOMPLETE MOVIE...!! THE END IS MISSING...!! IT ENDS WITH THE IMAGE REFLECTED IN THE WATER, OF THE GIRL WHO SING, WHOSE FACE IS THE SAME, AS THE SPHINX THAT I FOUND AND USE, TO REPAIR PART OF THE SHIP..., I SAW IT IN COMPLETE, IN SPANISH, IN MY COUNTRY ARGENTINA, BACK IN THE 60'S...!!

@OriginalRocketJock Ай бұрын

This film sure has a Fallout-like look to it.

@mikebasil4832 Ай бұрын

I hope that he did finally get to go back and meet her.

@markthomas9769 14 күн бұрын

Couples well with clam chowder.

@catchaser52 Ай бұрын

28:50 first ai robot working.

@marciocorrea8531 Ай бұрын

What?? This must be a joke. This is a soviet movie: "Planet Bur".

@robertkustos2931 22 күн бұрын

Yes, with added scenes.

@Barbaste 18 күн бұрын

Yep

@danielbryant3437 5 күн бұрын

Gotta go all the way across the solar system to get some strange! 😥

@micahhurst8986 22 күн бұрын

All the Women are good looking too.

@sparkstron73 Ай бұрын

57:30 beavis😂😂 Cheesy film but good fun

@petervance6777 13 күн бұрын

And of course no mention of the fact that nothing can survive on Venus with a surface temp of 900 degrees and 90 atm of pressure ..no spf is high enuf 😮

@denofearthundertheeverlast5138 29 күн бұрын

it's cool to see what I think are LED lights in use on some of those models in the beginning ,if I am not mistaken.

@denofearthundertheeverlast5138 29 күн бұрын

Or maybe they're tiny incandescent lights

@geofftownsend7973 23 күн бұрын

Leds were not invited yet

@denofearthundertheeverlast5138 22 күн бұрын

@@geofftownsend7973 LED were designed in the 60's dude.

@bryanreidsands6854 Күн бұрын

It was made by adults. Let that sink in. I wonder if anyone died during filming. Perhaps drowning by staring at the rain with their mouths open.

@danielbryant3437 5 күн бұрын

Funny how the coastland of Venus looks like Costa Rica! 🤕

@GHOSTGXZ 14 күн бұрын

painful even when skipping to the visually pleasing parts ☹️😞😒

@skaetur1 10 күн бұрын

33:27 is when the woman.

@rick5793 16 күн бұрын

Ya know if there was enough oxygen to burn wood there's enough to breathe.

@koolbugz 16 күн бұрын

this is more believable than the other movie i saw with neil armstrong and buzz aldrien. better actors too

@alexciocca4451 14 күн бұрын

Well it’s a good representation of humans going to an undiscovered land or planet and thinking they own it almost as bad as fishing for fun yea take a bite of your steak and catch a hook through your epiglottis and pulled out f the atmosphere filleted and pan fried in butter wonder how it taste

@bryanreidsands6854 Күн бұрын

Elon Musk watched this and decided to do it “for the reals”.

@user-ut7qi5zk4l Ай бұрын

This is really boring. Mamie van doran can't even help it😢😮😢😮

@Oldspartan65 Ай бұрын

Talk about crappy movies all i got out of it was a headache

@kpflo123 Ай бұрын

Thanks. I'm out at 4 minutes.

@paparando50 20 күн бұрын

Omg the babe footage was added to this god awful Russian or whatever the hell it is

@wdobni 24 күн бұрын

what a godam disaster

@2nostromo 10 күн бұрын

so awful its .... pupukaka

@dfrasu 26 күн бұрын

They spared every expense to make this flop. These movies were for drive ins mostly. Trust me, nobody was watching except for mom dad and the kiddies. Everyone else was well…occupied….what is that pink thing in the pop corn bag Billy? It is a special surprise sally! Dig in! There is plenty!