After that Prehistoric Women Triple Creature Feature I posted awhile back some of you might have been thinking "Hey Azathoth, I thought you were Mr. Horror/Sci-Fi thing. Those prehistoric babes weren't sci-fi-ish enough for the blog." To which I would say... Okay then, I anticipated that and have been plotting all month to fix your wagons but good ... and so, here's "Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women" proving that prehistoic babes can indeed exist right up there with unspeakable monsters from beyond and alien space creatures :P But WAIT! That wouldn't be good enough by itself because, well, its really the third movie in a series... well no, its the third version of the same movie... no, that's not right either... the third different movie using the same footage? That's closer... ah well here let's just start at the beginning...
In 1962 a movie is made in the USSR by director Pavel Klushantsev, possibly the first Russian pure science fiction movie, called "Planeta Bur". Then, as any good B-movie producer would, Roger Corman got his grubby little hands all over it and decided to rework it for western audiences (without crediting the source in any meaningful way of course ;)
He stuck director Curtis Harrington at the helm (using the name John Sebastian - hard to imagine why he wouldn't want to attach his real one to this isn't it ;) and they shot some footage with Faith Domergue and the great Basil Rathbone in order to give it some star power, stuck those scenes in with the edited and dubbed over Russian footage and released it in 1965 as "Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet".
Now, this movie did not do as well as they would have liked so after some thought they figure what it was lacking is chicks! Ya, chicks is what we need... Prehistoric chicks! In skimpy outfits! And thus comes attempt #3 to make this movie...
With Peter Bogdanovich as director, we lose the footage with Basil Rathbone and Faith Domergue (boo hiss!), add some Venusian girlies (featuring Mamie Van Doren - yaay! drool!), "borrow" some additional special effects shots from another Soviet production, "Nebo zovyot", and generally do weird and unmentionable things to the plot and *poof* it becomes 1967's "Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women".
And here are all 3 versions side-by-side so you may compare them and see which one you like best (or hate worst) and marvel at the fact 3 entire movies came from essentially the same footage :P
"Planeta Bur" (1962)
aka "Cosmonauts on Venus", "Planet of Storms", "Planet of Tempests", "Planeta Burg", and "Storm Planet".
Director:
Pavel Klushantsev
Writers:
Aleksandr Kazantsev
Pavel Klushantsev
Produced by:
Z. Anderson .... production director
L. Presnyakova .... producer
Vladimir Yemelyanov .... producer
Original Music by:
Iogann Admoni
Aleksandr Chernov
Cast:
Vladimir Yemelyanov ... Ilya Vershinin
Georgi Zhzhyonov ... Bobrov
Gennadi Vernov ... Alyosha
Yuri Sarantsev ... Scherba
Georgi Tejkh ... Kern
Kyunna Ignatova ... Masha
Plot:
Cosmonauts land on the planet Venus. However, they find themselves in danger from the voracious monsters they find on it.
Watch and join the fun as humans, a robot, dinosaurs and Venusian aliens fight it out in Planeta Bur!
Planeta Bur (1962)
Language: Russian w/ hard-coded English subs
Duration: 1hr 21min
DivX
699 MB
8-part DL:
01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08
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"Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet" (1965)
aka "Prehistoric Planet" and "Voyage to a Prehistoric Planet".
Cmdr. Brendan Lockhart, Sirius: "...I'll be right behind you."
Andre Ferneau, Sirius: "That'll be handy if I slip."
Directed by:
Curtis Harrington (as John Sebastian)
Writer:
Curtis Harrington (as John Sebastian)
Produced by:
George Edwards .... producer
Stephanie Rothman .... associate producer
Roger Corman .... executive producer (uncredited)
Original Music by:
Ronald Stein
Cast:
Basil Rathbone ... Prof. Hartman, Lunar 7
Faith Domergue ... Dr. Marsha Evans, Vega
Marc Shannon ... AKA for Uncredited Cast
Christopher Brand ... AKA for Uncredited Cast
John Bix ... John the Robot
Lewis Keane ... AKA for Uncredited Cast
Gennadi Vernov ... Andre Ferneau, Sirius (archive footage) (as Robert Chantal)
Georgi Zhzhyonov ... Hans Walters, Sirius (archive footage) (as Kurt Boden)
Yuri Sarantsev ... Allen Sherman, Vega (archive footage) (uncredited)
Georgi Tejkh ... Dr. Kern, Vega (archive footage) (uncredited)
Vladimir Yemelyanov ... Cmdr. Brendan Lockhart, Sirius (archive footage) (uncredited)
Cmdr. Brendan Lockhart, Sirius: "Almost sounds like a girl..."
Andre Ferneau, Sirius: "A girl... perhaps."
[Draws pistol]
Andre Ferneau, Sirius: "Or a..."
[pauses]
Andre Ferneau, Sirius: "Monster."
Hans Walters, Sirius: "I can't imagine anyone in their right mind exploring Venus."
Plot:
The year 2020 -- after the colonization of the moon, the spaceships Vega, Sirius and Capella are launched from Lunar Station 7 to explore Venus with Professor Hartman (Basil Rathbone) in command, but an asteroid collides and destroys Capella. The lead ship Vega stays orbiting and sends the astronauts Kern and Sherman with trusty robot John to the surface of Venus where they have problems with communication with Dr. Marsha Evans (Faith Domergue) in Vega. The Sirius lands on Venus and the cosmonauts (err... astronauts ;) explore the planet and are attacked by prehistoric animals as they seek out Kern and Sherman while collecting samples from the planet and ultimately make a "shocking" discovery about the nature of the Venusians.
Narrator: The year: 2020. The Moon has been explored and colonized and the next space goal is about to be reached - the first landing by on the planet Venus. Scientists profoundly hope that life, similar to that on Earth, may be found on this planet where so many physical conditions are like our own. Three rocket ships of an international expedition - the Sirius, Vega and Capella, after having successfully traveled 200 million miles are in the final stages of their journey...
Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965)
Duration: 1hr 14min
HQ XvID
1.7 GB
19 Part DL:
01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17,
18, 19
Narrator: And so man's search for intelligent life on other planets and in other galaxies will continue. For this is the heart and meaning of that great advenure - the exploration of the Universe.
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"Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women" (1968)
aka "The Gill Women" and "The Gill Women of Venus"
Director:
Peter Bogdanovich
Writer:
Henry Ney
Produced by:
Norman D. Wells .... producer
Roger Corman .... producer (uncredited)
Original Music by:
Keith Benjamin
Cast:
Mamie Van Doren ... Moana
Mary Marr ... Verba
Paige Lee ... Twyla
Gennadi Vernov ... Astronaut Andre Freneau (archive footage) (as Aldo Romani)
Margot Hartman ... Mayaway
Irene Orton ... Meriama
Pam Helton ... Wearie
Frankie Smith ... Woman of Venus
Georgi Tejkh ... Capt. Alfred Kern (archive footage) (as James David)
Judy Cowart ... Woman of Venus
Vladimir Yemelyanov ... Cmdr. William 'Billy' Lockhart (archive footage) (as Roberto Martelli)
Robin Smith ... Woman of Venus
Cathie Reimer ... Woman of Venus
Yuri Sarantsev ... Astronaut Howard Sherman (archive footage) (as Ralph Phillips)
Georgi Zhzhyonov ... Astronaut Hans Walters (archive footage) (as Murray Gerard)
Adele Valentine ... Woman of Venus
Peter Bogdanovich ... Narrator (voice)
Narrator: "All through man's march across this earth, the wildest dreams and fantasies of one age have become the common places of the next. The motion picture you are about to see can be called today a fantasy of the future. But, one day - maybe not too far distant, audiences will be able to look back on it in the same spirit with which we view pictures about the first covered wagons crossing the plains."
Ah, ok. We can look forward to being destroyed by prehistoric women from Venus in the near future... good to know! Thanx narrator! :P
Plot:
The year is 1998 (geez, they sure had high hopes for our lame arses back when this movie was made, it is 2008 and we still don't have a spaceship that can't be punctured to death by a stray chunk of foam much less colonize the moon or actually travel to venus or anywhere else - we earthlings just suck).
It is six months after the collision of a meteor and subsequent explosion of a rocket sent to Venus, the team composed by the astronauts Kern and Sherman with the robot John are launched (in their US spaceship with stylin' USSR red-star markings ;) to explore Venus. They arrive at the Space Station "Texas" for refueling but they have problems while landing on Venus. Without communication, another rocket is launched with Commander Brendan Lockhart, Andre Ferneau and Hans Walter to rescue the first team and explore the planet. They are attacked by a flying reptile. They kill the creature without knowing that it is worshiped and considered a God by prehistoric Venusian women in clamshell bikinis who then use their powerful connection with nature to unleash doom and destruction upon the invaders who desperately try to survive with the help of robot John.
"Venus... Venus... the planet named after the Goddess of Love. This is... where I left her... 26 million miles away. Because I know she exists. I know she does! I know it! All the time we were there I heard her. Her and that sweet, haunting sound she makes, like the Sirens that tempted Ulysses... You may think I'm crazy back here on Earth. Crazy and still intoxicated by the atmosphere back there. But, wait a minute, I'm getting ahead of myself. Let me tell you the whole story. All of it from the beginning and see what you think. You be the judge. "
Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968)
HQ XviD
Duration: 1hr 19min
1.86 GB
20-part DL:
01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
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And while you are waiting to DL why not check the post on these films over at the excellent Monster Movie Music 1950-1969 blog where you can check out some cool screen-shots and listen to some spiffy dialog from the movies.
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