Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968) on Netflix
Astronauts crash-land on Venus and kill a flying creature much like a pterosaur. The blond Venusian women who worship it as a god, Moana among them, seek revenge on the men.
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Plot summary
Footage from a 1962 Soviet science fiction feature about a landing on Venus is combined with new American scenes of the planet's women, shot in five days and linked by narration. The astronauts touch down on a world of lava flows, dinosaurs and a robot companion. When the men bring down a flying creature much like a pterosaur, they have no knowledge that it serves as a god to a band of blond Venusian women that includes Moana, and those women never meet them. The women take revenge for the killing while the astronauts remain stranded on Venus. An earlier American release had already drawn on the same Soviet footage.
Cast
- Paige Leeas Twyla
- Irene Ortonas Meriama
- Pam Heltonas Wearie
- Frankie Smithas Woman of Venus
- Judy Cowartas Woman of Venus
- Robin Smithas Woman of Venus
- Cathie Reimeras Woman of Venus
- Adele Valentineas Woman of Venus
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968)
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- Peter Bogdanovich shot five days of new footage with blonde women for the film, later claiming he really only directed about 10 minutes of it. Producer Roger Corman wanted girls added because AIP would not buy the Russian footage otherwise.
- Because the source was a Soviet film, Bogdanovich had to paint out the red star on the spaceship in every frame, replacing it with an obscure symbol that might pass for NASA's.
- Bogdanovich hired Mamie Van Doren and other blondes because he thought everyone should be blonde on Venus, dressing them in rubber suits, bottoms only, with shells over their breasts and shooting inserts at Leo Carrillo Beach.
- One actress was so afraid of sharks that when the crew threw a rubber fish at her in the water, she became hysterical, grabbed it and bit its head off.
- Bogdanovich wrote the narration himself and provided the voice, giving the job to the astronaut he considered the best looking because early audiences could not follow the film.
- Bogdanovich refused a director credit, saying such a small piece of it was his, though his version of the Planeta Bur material had more original material than Curtis Harrington's earlier one.
- The film was the last made by the Filmgroup company and was known at one stage as Gill Women of Venus.
