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It is the 50's and Dr. Karol Noymann (John Carradine) is messing around with atomics and gets irradiated. His carcass is buried. His friend Dr. Adam Penner (Philip Tonge) and co-worker decides his demise is not from any radiation but from trying to use it for military purposes.
Invisible beings who own the universe figure it is time to invade earth as they are getting too uppity with their new found atomics and rockets. So the give Dr. Adam Penner self comfiest pacifist the chance to spread the news of surrender or die. To get their point across they barrow Dr. Karol Noymann's carcass for a farewell performance.
The movie has all the standard sci-fi clich�s and formula where the girl half betrothed to the wimp second in command really goes for the strong willed military type.
Lots of stock film and a "Plan 9" feel make this a film classic. No mater how campy if your are a kid this is one spooky movie.
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when i first saw "journey to the seventh planet" on tv, it was a very good sci fi movie and one of the best parts of the movie was towards the end when one of the astronauts attacks the brain and the brain absorbs the astronaut. they showed the astronaut being absorbed in the original movie, which was pretty grusome, but they show none of the absorbtion on the dvd. the best part of the movie and it was cut out. all you see during this part is the brain and you just hear the sounds of the absortion. too bad they lost this part.
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The movies were first rate, cheesy 50's sci-fi. John Agar is a caliber acting in B films. Still worth the time though. However, Amazon's shipping is the worst. In-stock means it will be available in 2-3 weeks before they ship it out. Plus they ignore emails. Next time, I'll use their competitors.
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I saw "Journey..."in my own mind long before I saw it on the screen, courtesy of FJA's "Spaceman" magazine. Too young to stay up late and watch it on Chiller Theater, I was lucky enough to attend a mid-sixties Saturday afternoon matinee showing it with "The Angry Red Planet". Believe me, neither of these films looked cheap up on a 60 foot screen. They were epic. TV cuts everything off at the knees, but that first impression stays and its with that part of the mind that I can sit and watch a film that I would now probably turn off after the first 5 minutes. However, the DVD is not the same film I saw way back then or what used to play on TV before it vanished. I had hoped that by some miracle (it has happened), the original special effects would have been re-inserted. Poor as these are supposed to have been, they at least would have made a better fit into the film than the re-shots. I happen to have the original lobby cards and the pressbook, plus the aforementioned "Spaceman" as well as some bubble gum cards showing scenes not in the film and they don't really seem that bad. One even indicates that there was a fifth astronaut; two of the others are shown investigating what appears to be the skeleton of a space-suited comrade. This is not in the film. What is different about this version is the demise of Karl (I think that was his name). Though he is supposedly absorbed by the brain at the end (actually, a recycled scene of Jack Kruschen's character's demise from "Angry Red Planet" (this was really noticeable when I saw both films back-to-back)), they no longer show the absorption. Instead, everyone reacts to, what appears to be, an air filter sitting on a table, totally lifeless. Not even a 60 foot screen could make that look epic. Now why would anybody go to the trouble of making such a ridiculous substitution? Ann Smyrner, unlike Greta Thyssen, is gorgeous.
"Invisible Invaders", not being in color, wasn't quite as epic but it's also lodged in that dusty old drawer in my brain that can still look at it and say "not great but I've seen worse". Even back then (I also saw it at a matinee, with "Enemy From Space")I would have shot Robert Hutton's whining, gutless character, the biggest drawback to this film.
Well, they're not great films; that's why only 3 stars but I enjoyed them then and I enjoy them now.
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This is a wonderful double dose of silly sci-fi features from 1959 and 1962, the golden era of the genre. John Agar is a principal in both, and in both cases plays his role in his typical, formulaic, yet understated, way while chaos erupts around him and he takes on various monsters, including one with a "honeycomb cyclops brain".
In "Invisible Invaders" invisible invaders from the moon take over the corpse of scientist John Carradine who brings extra-terrestrial warnings from space to the protagonists of the film. (We also get to thrill to many Carradine voiceovers.) The Earth is engulfed in a stock footage war, but fortunate for us all, the brilliant cast is able to figure out not only how to make the aliens visible (it involves a latex bath, in part) but how to destroy them as well. (Whew!)
In "Journey to the Seventh Planet" John Agar and friends venture to Uranus in a ridiculously roomy spacecraft and discover lots of hilarious stock footage monsters (I am especially fond of the spider) and a brilliant opponent that can alter nature based on the memories of the humans. It is like a more primitive episode of "Star Trek" featuring John Agar as Kirk. This one is hysterical. It is set in the peaceful world of 2001, which is ruled by the brilliant and wise United Nations, and where everyone is happy and prosperous and there is no more war. (I will pause to let you collect yourselves now: I told you it was silly.) The film was made by the infamous Sid Pink in Denmark, with a mixed group of Danish and American actors. The result is a peculiar spectacle where only some voices are dubbed, It also features music you have no doubt heard in other movies of this ilk, most notably in "Zontar, The Thing from Venus" (also starring Agar, of course.)
This is a great little package of early cold war nostalgia, and I recommend it highly to anyone who likes B-movies.
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