Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

SimonJack Basil Rathbone is the only actor of any repute in "Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet." He plays Professor Hartman, but his minor role and name aren't enough to elevate this film to anything worthwhile. The lead female, Faith Domergue, plays Dr. Marsha Evans, in probably her largest role. I don't think she was ever in a movie made by a major studio. The rest of this cast appeared only in lower tier films – mostly forgettable and none that I could recall ever having seen or known about. Indeed, most of the male characters are stilted, choppy or wooden with their lines. The plot is nothing to excite one – it's just about exploring a distant planet. The monsters aren't anything too scary hereSo, why would I give this movie four stars? Because it does a splendid job of showing scenes that one might imagine from space exploration. It has cataclysms, some creative creatures, and some good camera work for scenes on the unknown planet. And, it gives us the first credible look at a robot, which is well done. It does a good job with special effects, especially with a space car that moves elevated off the ground. This is a mild film that portrays landscapes one might expect to see on distant planets (or moons). It shows that interest was peaking for more sci-fi about space travel. That would be met the next year when Gene Roddenberry unveiled the "Star Trek" TV series. That, in turn, launched a more advanced genre of space sci-fi films that continues well into the 21st century. Perhaps this film was an inspiration for Roddenberry or others who made future space films.

verbusen This film is not cool, it's boring. I suspect that the typical Soviet film lovers are inflating it's rating as they often do on IMDb. It's one star above an East German film from around the same time "First Spaceship on Venus" that film was unwatchable (I give it 2 stars) it was so boring. You might say that this is a butchered Corman version with spliced in scenes that make little sense and that the original is much better, that's fine, but I doubt I would enjoy the original either. It's just so boring. One big redeeming factor though is Joe the robot, the communist's answer to our capitalistic bourbon making Robbie, he's pretty cool and will even destroy humans to self preserve itself! I would never attempt to watch this film straight on it's own, I watched it via horror host Mr Lobo and his Cinema Insomnia show. As a Mr Lobo hosted version I give it 7 stars, there are some funny skits with him and a trash can robot that asks some funny tough questions about it's purpose in life other then being a slave to Mr Lobo. One thing about the Mr Lobo version I watched though is he's advertising some bloody grindhouse trash films, I had to fast forward past those, disgusting. The retro commercials are fun though as is a fake commercial for a skateboard lawyer, Rad Abrams. If you are a lover of MST3K and are looking for more material to watch that's free online you will enjoy the Mr Lobo episodes like this one.

bkoganbing Voyage To The Prehistoric Planet has British Basil Rathbone and American Faith Domergue in a cast of mostly Russian players given American names about the first exploration of the planet Venus. Venus proves to be one giant steam bath of a planet with volcanic activity and all kinds of exotic prehistoric like animal and plant life. There are traces of a human civilization, but the Venusians are real shy around us earthlings.For those of us who saw The Aviator and for some like myself who are old enough to remember her, Faith Domergue was one of Howard Hughes's celebrated protégés. She was an exceptional beauty no doubt and she may have even had some talent, but unlike Jane Russell who managed to emerge from the shadow of Hughes, Domergue never did.As for Basil Rathbone he's seen briefly talking to the astronauts from the Lunar station on the moon from whence the expedition came from. The film is not as bad as I thought it would be, the recreation of the director's conception of Venus isn't too far off the mark as far as what we've been able to determine as to terrain. No exotic life like what is shown here though.And in fact this is supposed to have taken place in 2020 and I doubt seriously if we'll get to Venus by then.

oscar-35 *Spoiler/plot- 1965, Voyages to the Prehistoric Planet, A spaceship orbits the planet Venus. It is piloted by female astronaut. On the surface, two fellow astronauts and their robot set out for a voyage of exploration. Back on the Moon, Professor Hartman observes the progress and supervises. The landing party is attacked by several prehistoric creatures. They also find evidence of a ancient civilization. 'John', their helpful robot is lost during a volcanic eruption while saving two crew members. *Special stars- Basil Rathbone as mission commander Professor Hartman. Roger Corman as film director. *Theme- Planet's can have civilizations, just keep looking. *Based on- Russian film, 'Planet of Storms '62 *Trivia/location/goofs- Roger Corman's retread of this Russian film by re-hashing some interesting Russian film footage. Interesting use and scenes of a robot can be enjoyed. Outstanding use of astro-car rounds out the enjoyable mechanical items of this crew's planetary exploration kit. Listen to the female astronaut, Marcia jokingly reads her lines of camera and seriously talks about the spaceship's 'propellers' needing to be warmed-up. There are no propellers to be seen on any spaceships in this film. *Emotion- Somewhat enjoyable film to watch despite the scene's plot continuity. Nice to see what the Russian cinema was producing. Production values were very respectable. The landing party crews being attacked by lizard-men and shooting back with pistols is hard to view for it's silliness.