dougdoepke
No need to recap plot.
Too bad some of the money for effects didn't go into the screenplay, since there are more holes in the logic than grandma's sieve. For example, if the alien brain wants to kill our heroes, why send only one monster spider. With his powers he should be able to eliminate them anytime. But, oh well, what would become of the movie. Besides the cast wouldn't have a beginning and end to walk through. I will say some of the sets and effects are well done for that time period (1962). The trouble with expensive sci-fi sets was that casts had to do slow-motion walks because of size limitations. And it's evident here which doesn't help the often draggy script. Anyway, it's evident that someone had ambitions for the elaborate production (the space-ship control room, for example). Too bad they couldn't come up with a better script. But at least they figured out how to work in some sexy eye appeal. So things could be worse, a lot worse.
Hitchcoc
This slow moving mess has stilted dialogue, bad acting, and some of the most incomprehensible motivations ever. First of all, what an embarrassment is John Agar. He was thought to be the next Cary Grant at one time, but good looks didn't do it for him. He spent most of his time doing these cheesy horror/science fiction movies. In this one he plays a man with a reputation for jumping anything with skirts. While these guys find themselves on a kind of isolated patch on Uranus, they guess that there is some kind of force that they must deal with. What do they do? The thing reads their imaginations and apparently the whole crew has the hormones of an eighth grader. They are constantly accosted by these babes and fall for their charms any time the force that is acting on them desires. There is also this endless exploration of the little bit of heaven they are on and they never seem to get anywhere. There is a German guy named Karl who gets his arm frozen (though thaws out), falls in a kind of ammonia quicksand, and is eaten by some unfriendly maw. He is stupid and impulsive but never changes. There is this ridiculous voice that keeps telling us that these people are stupid and he will eventually kill them. He is apparently studying them so he can go to earth later and take over. How these guys could tie their shoes let along travel through space is beyond me. There are some decent special effects and a nice use of sound, but the story just doesn't make it.
oscar-35
*Spoiler/plot- Journey to the Seventh Planet, 1962, Trip to Uranus in 2001, the UN has sent a special team of scientist to explore. What the crew discovers is a planet not unlike Earth, complete with a Danish village filled with voluptuous women from their past! The Utopian veneer is a strange force so powerful and so dangerous it threatens the crew's safety and lives. An alien is reading their inner thoughts and fooling them into being unsafe. They must conquer the planetary being to get home.*Special Stars- Jon Agar, Greta Thyssen, Ann Smyer, Mimi Heinrich. Director: Sidney Pink and Ib Melchior.*Theme- The human mind can contain all the delights and dangers in the universe. Care should be exercised.*Trivia/location/goofs- Danish, Most cast is dubbed to English due to European actors. Film was cannibalized in US post production due to poor monster and production effects. Geta Thyssen was Miss Denmark 1951 and of the same film 'casting' as fellow 'bombshells' like Jane Mansfield, Marilynn Monroe, and Briget Bardot.*Emotion- Tries to be a psychological thriller with the alien element that can transform matter in a planet to fit the experience of the Earth astronauts. Similar plot to a vintage Twilight Zone and better done there. But, an interesting plot idea with well executed special effect scenes for it's time. A large dose of European 'cheesecake' babe roles helps the watch ability with Jon Agar's strong role as mission co-commander. The rest of the European male spaceship crew actors are weak against Agar's screen gravitas from the USA. This film is entertaining and watchable, better than average in many elements. Nice to see how a European made film compares to American B-Movie examples.
thinker1691
In the year 1962 this Science Fiction film arrived in our small home town at the local theater. It was called " Journey to the Seventh Planet. " All the kids ran to see it. Most of us were innocent youngsters and few knew anything of Science and fewer of the Solar System. During the movie with a large box of 10 cent popcorn and 5 cent coke, we watched in awe at the planet monsters, screaming in terror. The story was interesting enough, Earthmen of the future (2001) unite under the United Nation Flag, build a space ship, blast off to visit Uranus, the 7th planet. There the four spacemen wearing flimsy rubber suits, plexi-glass helmets and kitchen gloves, encounter a Blob or Mind-Creature who plans to conquer Earth and enslave the population. The giant creatures they encounter in the movie were exactly what attracted small children. As adults today, we wonder just how a cheesy, simple and hokey movie could produce such ear-splitting screams from an audience full of kids. John Agar stars as Capt. Don Graham, with Carl Ottosen, Peter Monch, Karl Ove Sprogøe as the crew. If you're an adult today, you too can create some modern nightmares in your kids, if they promise not to laugh too hard. Recommended for very young monster-seeking five-year-olds. *
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