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Doomsday Machine

"See! The Earth Destroyed In A Nuclear Holocaust!"

Following the discovery of a doomsday machine capable of destroying Earth, the launch of a US space mission to Venus is taken over by the military.

Top Cast

  • Bobby Van

    Bobby Van

    Danny

  • Ruta Lee

    Ruta Lee

    Dr. Marion Turner

  • Mala Powers

    Mala Powers

    Maj. Georgianna Bronski

  • James Craig

    James Craig

    Dr. Haines

  • Grant Williams

    Grant Williams

    Maj. Kurt Mason

  • Henry Wilcoxon

    Henry Wilcoxon

    Dr. Christopher Perry

  • Essie Lin Chia

    Essie Lin Chia

    Girl Spy

  • Casey Kasem

    Casey Kasem

    Mission Control Officer

  • Lorri Scott

    Lorri Scott

    Lt. Katie Carlson

Overview

Following the discovery of a doomsday machine capable of destroying Earth, the launch of a US space mission to Venus is taken over by the military.

Rating

3.3 / 10
32 Reviews
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1 Reviews

  • talisencrw
    talisencrw
    5 Apr 16, 2016

    I can see the light at the end of the proverbial tunnel, as I'm nearing the end of my infamous Mill Creek 50-film 'Nightmare Worlds' pack. This was a really strange viewing experience, and honestly made me wonder if my red wine had been spiked with some hallucinogen by some ne'er-do-well prankster. It had some intriguing ideas, a big one being that the USA and USSR are afraid that China is going to destroy the world, so at the last minute, just before a scheduled space flight to investigate Venus, NASA administrators replace three of the astronauts with female counterparts, and include a mysterious large suitcase. Though it says 1972, you can distinctly feel that it was made years earlier, before the game-changers of '2001: A Space Odyssey' and the manned space flight to the moon completely changed the way sci-fi films were made (unless you're the sad saps behind monstrosities such as 'Star Odyssey', that go on as if any relationship with the way things are in real life is an entirely accidental and unintended coincidence). Most of it was made in 1966, but funding ran out, and it shows. The filmmakers couldn't even afford the intended climax, and that shows--the film simply ends. But for all of that, this bizarre experiment of a forced Adam and Eve scenario in outer space, as a future for Earth, is decent--and it would be two generations later, when in Christopher Nolan's 'Interstellar', that this idea would be fully realized with human decency and artistic integrity.

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