Roger Corman and future super director Francis Ford Coppola (using the pseudonym Thomas Colchart), are behind this sci-fi adventure of two warring hemispheres competing to be the first on Mars. Instead, they end up lost and landing in a small store where monsters (suspiciously shaped like male and female genitalia) constantly battle it out. The bulk of the scenes come from the Soviet sci-fi adventure Nebo Zovyot, which Corman had purchased a few years before. He dropped the cold-war aspects and assigned young Coppola to rewrite, edit and produce the film. Music by Les Baxter.
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ACMI Identifier
309615
Language
English
Audience classification
PG
Subject categories
Fantasy & Science Fiction → Science fiction films
Feature films → Feature films - United States
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
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VHS; Access Print (Section 1)