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Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet is a 1965 American science fiction film, one of two versions adapted for Roger Corman from the Soviet science fiction movie Planeta Bur (Planet of Storms), scripted by Aleksandr Kazantsev from his novel and directed by Pavel Klushantsev. Curtis Harrington oversaw the editing and dubbing of principal portions of the source film, and directed new principal scenes featuring Basil Rathbone and Faith Domergue. The resulting new film was then syndicated to television by American-International Television Inc.
Plot
The film essentially follows the story of the Soviet original, with Rathbone and Domergue replacing two Soviet actors in roles as space-station monitors of the primary action. The rest of the film stars the remaining Soviet players, dubbed.
In the revised telling, it is 2020 and the Moon has been colonized. After traveling 200,000,000 miles, the first group of men land on Venus, where they find a prehistoric world in which the crew are attacked by various monsters, plants, etc.
Cast
Basil Rathbone as Professor Hartman
Faith Domergue as Dr. Marsha Evans
Vladimir Yemelyanov (miscredited) as Cmdr. Brendan Lockhart
Georgiy Zhzhonov (miscredited as "Kurt Boden") as Hans Walters
Gennadi Vernov (miscredited as "Robert Chantal") as Andre Ferneau
Georgiy Teich (miscredited) as Kern
Yuri Sarantsev (miscredited) as Sherman
Boris Prudkovsky (uncredited) as Robot John
Release date: 1 August 1965
Running time: 78 minutes
Country: USSR / USA
Language: English
