Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet poster

Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet( 1965)

TV-MAScience FictionAdventure
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Overview

In 2020, after the colonization of the moon, the spaceships Vega, Sirius and Capella are launched from Lunar Station 7. They are to explore Venus under the command of Professor Hartman, but an asteroid collides and explodes Capella. The leader ship Vega stays orbiting and sends the astronauts Kern and Sherman with the robot John to the surface of Venus, but they have problems with communication with Dr. Marsha Evans in Vega. The Sirius lands in Venus and Commander Brendan Lockhart, Andre Ferneau and Hans Walter explore the planet and are attacked by prehistoric animals. They use a vehicle to seek Kern and Sherman while collecting samples from the planet. Meanwhile John helps the two cosmonauts to survive in the hostile land.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Basil Rathbone

      Prof. Hartman, Lunar 7

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      Faith Domergue

      Dr. Marsha Evans, Vega

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      John Bix

      John the Robot

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      Gennadi Vernov

      Andre Ferneau, Sirius (archive footage)

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      Georgi Zhzhyonov

      Hans Walter, Sirius (archive footage)

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      Georgiy Teykh

      Dr Kern, Vega (archive footage) (uncredited)

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      Vladimir Yemelyanov

      Cmdr. Brendan Lockhart, Sirius (archive footage) (uncredited)

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      Yuriy Sarantsev

      Allen Sherman, Vega (archive footage) (uncredited)

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      Marc Shannon

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      Christopher Brand

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      Lewis Keane

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    A review by CinemaSerf

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    Written by CinemaSerf on Thu Sep 05 2024
    Neither Basil Rathbone nor Faith Domergue were actually in the original version of this Soviet tale of space exploration to Venus where dinosaurs really do rule. The print I saw had chroma-phase issues which dated it more than it deserved, I thought. It's not a great film, but is eerily suspenseful. "John" the robot could be a distant cousin of "Robby"; it's got a cool hover-Lada and the monsters are pretty much of the time. The audio is rotten though, the dialogue is quite difficult to make out - particularly as they spend much of the movie in space helmets. The inserted dialogue from the two ...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

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    Revenue

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    Keywords

    • carnivorous plant
    • robot
    • astronaut
    • venus the planet
    • pterodactyl
    • space exploration
    • alien civilization
    • outer space