Product Details

• Actors: Basil Rathbone, Faith Domergue, John Bix, Gennadi Vernov, Georgi Zhzhyonov
• Directors: Curtis Harrington
• Writers: Curtis Harrington
• Producers: George Edwards, Roger Corman, Stephanie Rothman
• Format: Black & White, Color, DVD, 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
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Alpha Video
• DVD Release Date: June 10, 2003
• Run Time: 74 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00008ZL5C
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #159,176 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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VOYAGE TO THE PREHISTORIC PLANET - DVD Movie

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Dont Let The Title Fool You, July 2, 2003

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Russell C. Longmire (Houston, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (DVD)

This film is much better than it looks. Its a film about the exploration of Venus and its really good especially if you factor in when it was made. The scenes with Basil Rathbone at the lunar base are definitely a little hokey and I didnt recognize Faith Dominque (This Island Earth) at first, but the rest of the film is great! The plot is basicly explore Venus and rescue the first team that landed and got into trouble. The explorers have a really neat hover craft that they travel in to save their comrades. There is a tough metal robot that is realistic. Dinosaurs and other nasties try to make a meal of various crew members without success. Its just an all around fun film along the gendre of First Spaceship to Venus. The special effects are innovative and impressive especially considering the time when the film was made. I saw this film when I was a kid and was happy to make its reacquaintance. If you like classic science fiction, you will love this film.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great movie to watch when you're stoned!, December 9, 1999

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Ronald Reagan III - See all my reviews

This review is from: Voyage to a Prehistoric Planet [VHS] (VHS Tape)

PRE-HISTORIC PLANET is one of three AIP films that contain stolen fottage from Russian soviet epic, PLANET OF STORMS. I think that the footage was "discovered" by Roger Corman who was wroking for AIP around this time. The film is an incredibly slow made-for-TV movie but once it gets going it's a bent, giddy and unintentionally hilarious romp with lots of weird looking sets and hilarious looking dinosaurs. If you enjoyed this classic, take a look at the even-better PLANET OF BLOOD (AKA: QUEEN OF BLOOD).

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, September 17, 2005

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Steven Hellerstedt "SH" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Voyage To The Prehistoric Planet (DVD)

VOYAGE TO A PREHISTORIC PLANET was made in 1965, stars Basil Rathbone, and the cover depicts one snarling and one glaring dinosaur towering over three space-suited astronauts. Does anything more really need be said?

Plot - The year is 2020 and American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts are traveling to Venus. I've read somewhere that this is a Russia film that had scenes inserted and some phony American credits plastered on it prior to release, but wasn't interested enough to see if my favorite internet search engine could cough up the answers to that mystery. Rathbone plays a scientist on the satellite Lunar 7 and the other `star' in this one, Faith Domergue, is an astronautlette on the Venus-orbiting Vega. A handful of `nauts and John the Robot are on the Venus surface, dodging the stray alamosaurus and/or 12-foot-tall man-eating venus flytrap while finding evidence of an ancient Venusian civilization.

There probably was an okay Russian movie here before Roger Corman Productions got their hands on this one. John the Robot is cool and some of the special effects are a cut above the standard glop they were putting out then. The story drags terribly, though, and Rathbone is apparently included for name recognition rather than to serve the plot or to move things along. Thankfully, they don't dress him up in a goofy costume or otherwise embarrass him. The pacing is terrible, the dubbing is atrocious and there's no drama to speak of. The print, although the color is somewhat washed out and there are some scratches, is in okay condition. Not recommended.