Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women |
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 • USA • 1968 • 78m •    • Directed by: Peter Bogdanovich. • Starring: Mamie Van Doren, Mary Marr, Paige Lee, Gennadi Vernov, Margot Hartman, Irene Orton, Pam Helton, Frankie Smith, Georgiy Teykh, Judy Cowart, Vladimir Yemelyanov, Robin Smith, Cathie Reimer. • Music by: Keith Benjamin.      Six months after the collision of a meteor and subsequent explosion of a rocket sent to Venus, the team composed by the astronauts Kern and Sherman with the robot John is launched to explore Venus. They arrive in the Space Station Texas for refueling but they have problems while landing in Venus. Without communication, another rocket is launched with Commander Brendan Lockhart, Andre Ferneau and Hans Walter to rescue the first team and explore the planet. They use a vehicle to seek Kern and Sherman, but they are attacked by a flying reptile. They kill the animal without knowing that it is worshiped and considered the God Terah by Venusians women that use their powerful connection with nature to destroy the invaders. Meanwhile John helps the two cosmonauts to survive in the hostile land.
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the other thing that somehow comes to mind is that maybe a formerly not so successful actor (probably because he wasn't good-looking enough? or not quite talented perhaps?) was trying to get himself a place in the upper management by directing movies (ordering people to do things for him instead of being bossed around by other directors) was also very much into having some Playboy super-model mostly blond actresses around himself but without the high budget required to make use of them in a more professional production... (a budget he most surely didn't even have as a starving young student of acting to begin with!)
so, this is what happens then: take an already butchered movie available for free in the public domain; butcher it even more; add shots of a bunch of the said beautiful and sexy model-actresses to the mix; top it off it with a really cheesy icing of pagan-style ''all-female-personnel temple'' story on top of it (the likes of which were made into other cheap movies in relatively high numbers in the Italian and American cinema back in the day btw) and there you are: you're surrounded with adorable young blonde white soft flesh for a day (or two?) of crap-shoot at a nice little remote beach... (did the man also succeed in being lucky and getting laid as well? something tells me he probably even shot the scenes all by himself possibly, saving on money and all without having to use a large crew, you know, using super-cheap outdated reversal material as well, to match the already worn out scratchy and spotty copy of the original commie movie! but the question is: did he just take the not so m any shots we see or were there more, like full nude ones of the models too? possibly some lesbian scenes maybe?) ;-)
don't get me wrong though, i have always admired Bogdanovich for his other truly fine works he made later... and checking out his looks in photos of him in his young years, he didn't look that bad really... (i also don't hold him responsible even a bit in what happened to his poor wife, based on whose bitter life story another great movie director mad the Star 80...)
but the more i think about his motivations (and those of some other filmmakers, then and now) in making useless films like this, the more i come to the final rather sweet and sour conclusion that they don't make them because they believe they have "something important and serious" to say... not even something truly erotic or sexy either... they just do it for the really short-lived fun of having a go at some wanna-be good looking actresses with a good body to match and an empty stomach to do almost anything for a free meal...
Review by Sherparsa from the Internet Movie Database.
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