Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women
About Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women
Astronauts crash on Venus. They kill a creature the local women worship, and the women turn on them. The space footage is Soviet material from Planeta Bur (1962). New scenes, with Mamie Van Doren as one of the Venusian women, were shot for this version.
Cast & crew
More about Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women
Roger Corman produced it. Peter Bogdanovich shot the new American scenes and kept his name off the credits. The Soviet picture, directed by Pavel Klushantsev and written by Alexander Kazantsev from Kazantsev's novel, supplies the astronaut footage. Every frame taken from Planeta Bur had already been used in Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965). American International Pictures gave this cut at least a limited U.S. release. Running time 78 minutes.
Themes
Background
A 1968 AIP release built on a 1962 Mosfilm-era science-fiction feature, retitled and reshot for the American market.
Making
Corman bought the Soviet film and had two English-language features carved out of it. This is the second, and the one that adds a tribe of women who were not in Klushantsev's picture.
Notes
- Bogdanovich is not credited. Mamie Van Doren is.
- It does not add any Planeta Bur footage beyond what the 1965 television version already used.
- Cable and home video did more for its later circulation than the first release.
- The Soviet original is Planeta Bur, also called Planet of the Storms.
Scenes
- The astronauts kill the creature the women worship.
- Van Doren's scenes sit beside the Soviet Venus footage.
Influenced by
- Planeta Bur (1962)
Also available
- Internet Archive (VoyagetothePlanetofPrehistoricWomen)
