Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet
About Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet
In 2020, with the Moon already colonized, the ships Vega, Sirius, and Capella leave Lunar Station 7 for Venus under Professor Hartman. An asteroid destroys Capella. Vega stays in orbit and sends Kern and Sherman down with a robot. The picture is an English-language cut of the 1962 Soviet film Planeta Bur, with new scenes of Basil Rathbone and Faith Domergue added in America.
Cast & crew
More about Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet
Curtis Harrington supervised the editing and dubbing of Pavel Klushantsev's Planeta Bur and directed the new scenes. Roger Corman, George Edwards, and Stephanie Rothman produced. Ronald Stein wrote the music. Aleksandr Kazantsev's novel was the source of the Soviet script. American International Television syndicated the result straight to television. Running time 78 minutes.
Themes
Background
American International was turning a Soviet space film into syndicated television in 1965, three years after Planeta Bur.
Making
Harrington's job was to dub the Soviet picture, cut it, and drop in Rathbone and Domergue so the package could play as an American television movie.
Music
Ronald Stein composed the score for the American version.
Notes
- Basil Rathbone and Faith Domergue appear only in the scenes Harrington shot.
- Georgiy Zhzhonov is among the Soviet actors left in the Venus footage.
- This is the first of Corman's two Planeta Bur adaptations. Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women followed in 1968 and reused the same Soviet shots.
- It did not get a theatrical release. AIP sent it to television.
Scenes
- Capella is destroyed by an asteroid on the way to Venus.
- Rathbone and Domergue appear in the newly shot linking scenes.
Influenced by
- Planeta Bur (1962)
Influenced
- Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968)
Also available
- Internet Archive (VoyagetothePrehistoricPlanet)
