First Spaceship on Venus
1960 : 1 hour 20 minutes
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Director: Kurt Maetzig
synopsis
Europe’s communist countries produced the most interesting space films of the ’60s (judging from the “Americanized” Battle Beyond the Sun, Voyage to the End of the Universe, Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, etc.) and First Spaceship on Venus has a gaudy grandeur that looks quite wonderful in 2.35:1 widescreen “Totalvision.” Typical of cheaply dubbed films, the dialogue is often hilariously goofy (“I’m landing. Here she goes!”) and most of the music are easily recognized cues from the Universal horror library of the ’50s.
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