Apatros Review Ep-0151: Planet of Storms [1962]

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AR-0151: I am not a fan of Soviet science fiction films [Stalker and Solaris excepted] so the reason I have this particular one in my collection is due to the fact this 1962 flick about a USSR mission to explore Venus was used by Roger Corman to create three films for American distribution by some creative re-edits.

Those American versions are superior thank to the better writing they had, while the Soviet original only has the excellent for the time VFX for a positive, the rest is pro-Communist propaganda. Nevertheless if you're a collector, this might prove worthy if you have the Corman re-edits as this will provide the origin context and it is interesting to see how the Soviets would have conducted their space missions were the Soviet Union still to exist...

My Grade: C [Average]

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