Voyage To The Planet Of Prehistoric Women (1968)

aka's: The Gill Women/The Gill Women Of Venus

A team of astronauts crash-land on Venus and find themselves under attack by prehistoric monsters. They kill one of the monsters that turns out to be a god to the Venusian women, bringing the wrath of the alien women down on them and making them determined to destroy the “intruders.” Stars Mamie Van Doren.

Note: This feature is actually a re-edited version of a film previously released in the U.S. as Voyage To The Prehistoric Planet (1965), which itself was an edited and dubbed version of a Soviet film titled Planeta Burg (1962). For this version, the already dubbed Russian footage was re-used, but the American insert shots of Basil Rathbone and Faith Domergue were removed and new insert shots featuring Mamie Van Doren and other actresses (as inhabitants of Venus) were inserted. Director Peter Bogdanovich did the narration as if he were one of the cosmonauts telling the story in flashback. Some additional special effects shots from another Soviet production, Nebo Zovyot (1960), were also added. For this version, the famous shot of the Venusian reflected in the pool of water was removed. The “Prehistoric Women” do not appear in the original Russian film, from which this one was made.