American International Pictures
Directed by Pavel Klushantsev (original Russian) and Curtis Harrington (American scenes)
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(YouTube)
Re-edited version of the Soviet film Planet of Storms, in which cosmonauts land on Venus to rescue another crew which has crashed there. They encounter a man-eating plant, are attacked by man-sized dinosaurs that look like Godzilla and hear a girl's voice singing wherever they go. They have a hover cruiser that takes them over hot rocks and even underwater. The lost crew has a robot which they use to escape a lava flow by riding on its back. Unfortunately the inserted American scenes add little or nothing to the much superior Russian ones, with Basil Rathbone never having it so easy: he dons a white coat to pass as a scientist and barks a few lines into a microphone.
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