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Actors: Rik Van Nutter, Gabriella Farinon, David Montresor, Archie Savage, Alain Dijon
Directors: Antonio Margheriti
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Language: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Rating: 
Studio: Alpha Video
DVD Release Date: February 18, 2003
Run Time: 79 minutes
Average Customer Review:
  (14 customer reviews)
Reader Reviews
This is one of the more unusual Italian space drama films by director Antonio Magheriti from the early sixties. The plot revolves around a super-annoying reporter, whom the crew calls a "parasite" (Rik Von Nutter), who is along on a mission to report on space activities. He is not a likeable member of the media, which is the only thing realistic about the film. Von Nutter and crew have to dart between Mars and Venus on a top secret mission to save the Earth from a spaceship with a 5,000 mile radius heat shield (that will turn the Earth to boiling mud) which is out of control due to the death of the pilot. Ultimately the only likeable character in the whole film, space pilot Al (who is black with silver hair), gives them the secret for how to destroy the rogue ship, and pays the ultimate price for his efforts. Von Nutter ends up being a hero at the end (and, of course, gets the girl), but I still found his very existence annoying. The most noteworthy thing about this film are the special effects by Caesar Peace, which were considered groundbreaking in their day. They are generationally more primitive than anything from 'Star Wars', but they were breathtaking for 1961, and are still mostly watchable today, with two notable exceptions: fire from the rockets suffers from a horrible sense of scale that is virtually impossible to get rid of with small models; and more ridiculously, the ultra-bogus shot of the guy who jumps out of his spaceship and falls straight down to the surface of Mars (yet when rescued is OK!) The film is interesting from a historical perspective, but none of the characters are remotely likable (except poor Al), and the story drags quite a bit at times. It is good enough to be boring, but not bad enough to be campy. One final note: the movie is in color, in that brown is a color. The print is so washed out that it may as well be in black and white. (There are even times that a viewer can't tell if it is color or not!) Two stars for a decent effort at an early sixties space adventure.
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