History Film / PlanetOfStorms

* PteroSoarer: A goofy-looking pterosaur attacks the crew's hover-car as it crosses a body of water.

At this point, what was previously a fairly hard sci-fi film takes a sharp turn to OneMillionBC territory, as the rescue team encounters carnivorous plants, dinosaurs, volcanoes and a mysterious sound like a woman singing...

''Planet of Storms'' (Russian: ''Planeta Bur'') is a 1962 Soviet film directed by Pavel Klushantsev, based on a novel by Alexander Kazantsev about humanity's first mission to the planet UsefulNotes/{{Venus}}. It was later picked up by Creator/RogerCorman's American International Pictures and ReCut for U.S. television as ''Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet'' in 1965. Two years later the re-cut was re-cut into ''Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women.''

''Planet of Storms'' (Russian ''Planeta Bur'') is a 1962 Soviet film directed by Pavel Klushantsev, based on a novel by Alexander Kazantsev about humanity's first mission to the planet UsefulNotes/{{Venus}}. It was later picked up by Creator/RogerCorman's American International Pictures and ReCut for U.S. television as ''Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet'' in 1965. Two years later the re-cut was re-cut into ''Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women.''

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Venus harbors some mighty familiar-looking animals, including some giant sauropods, a pack of man-sized theropods, and a pterosaur that attacks the crew.

* CutAndPasteTranslation: AIP re-cut ''Planet of Storms'' to hide its Soviet origins and add some familiar faces for Western viewers. The first re-cut was fairly respectful, but the second...

* HumanAliens: At the end of ''Planet of Storms,'' [[spoiler:we get a brief glimpse of a lovely woman who may be the source of all the mysterious singing.]] In ''Prehistoric Women'', this gets taken UpToEleven.

''Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet'' stays largely faithful to the original, though since this was the height of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, AIP scrubbed all signs of its origin by renaming the characters and leaving the Soviet cast and crew off the credits. Director Curtis Harrington also recast Masha (renamed Marsha) with American actress Faith Domergue, and visualized the previously disembodied voices of MissionControl as a small team led by Creator/BasilRathbone.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Venus welcomes you ... for lunch!]]

* CargoCult: In the ''Prehistoric Women'' re-cut, [[spoiler:the Venusian tribe ends up worshipping the remains of John the Robot.]]

''Planet of Storms'' (Russian ''Planeta Bur'') is a 1962 Soviet film directed by Pavel Klushantsev, based on a novel by Alexander Kazantsev about a mission to the planet UsefulNotes/{{Venus}}. It was later picked up by Creator/RogerCorman's American International Pictures and ReCut for U.S. television as ''Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet'' in 1965. A year later the re-cut was re-cut into ''Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women.''

In the original film, the cosmonauts are forced to improvise after one of three ships sent for the mission is suddenly destroyed by an asteroid strike. Two crewmen one of the two remaining ships, the ''Vega'', decide to go down to the surface via glider along with their robot John. After they are blown off course, the crew of the remaining ship ''Sirius'' head down to rescue them, leaving only the mission's lone woman, Masha, to stay aloft and communicate with MissionControl.

''Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women'', helmed by Creator/PeterBogdanovich of all people, took more liberties by cutting Masha/Marsha completely and shoehorning footage of Mamie Van Doren leading a tribe of scantily clad women who are supposedly orchestrating the crew's difficulties in an attempt to get rid of them. This version also incorporated footage from another Soviet sci-fi movie that AIP had acquired, which had been heavily reworked into ''Film/BattleBeyondTheSun'' for U.S. release.

''Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet'' stays largely faithful to the original, though since this was the height of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, AIP scrubbed all signs of its origin by renaming the characters and leaving the Soviet cast and crew off the credits. Director Curtis Harrington also recast Masha (renamed Marsha) with American actress Faith Domergue, and visualized the previously disembodied voices of MissionControl as a small team led by Creator/BasilRathbone. ''Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women'', helmed by Creator/PeterBogdanovich of all people, took more liberties by cutting Masha/Marsha completely and shoehorning footage of Mamie Van Doren leading a tribe of scantily clad women who are supposedly orchestrating the crew's difficulties in an attempt to get rid of them.

* MissionControl: In ''PlanetOfStorms'' Masha is in communication with headquarters which are offscreen but apparently on Earth, while in the U.S. version this is identified as "Lunar Base 7" and led by Basil Rathbone.

In the original film, the cosmonauts are forced to improvise after one of three ships sent for the mission is suddenly destroyed by an asteroid strike. Two crewmen one of the two remaining ships, the ''Vega'', decide to go down to the surface via glider along with their robot John. After they are blown off course, the crew of the remaining ship ''Sirius'' head down to rescue them, leaving only the mission's lone woman, Masha, to stay aloft and communicate with Mission Control.

''Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet'' stays largely faithful to the original, though since this was the height of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, AIP scrubbed all signs of its origin by renaming the characters and leaving the Soviet cast and crew off the credits. Director Curtis Harrington also recast Masha (renamed Marsha) with American actress Faith Domergue, and visualized the previously disembodied voices of Mission Control as a small team led by Creator/BasilRathbone. ''Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women'', helmed by Creator/PeterBogdanovich of all people, took more liberties by cutting Masha/Marsha completely and shoehorning footage of Mamie Van Doren leading a tribe of scantily clad women who are supposedly orchestrating the crew's difficulties in an attempt to get rid of them.

* ImportationExpansion: This was fairly modest in the first re-cut, with some new scenes filmed to visualize the voices of Mission Control and one Soviet character replaced by a nearly identical American one. In the second re-cut, a whole tribe of Venusian women was added.