Assignment Outer Space

Actors: Rik Van Nutter, Gabriella Farinon, David Montresor, Archie Savage, and Alain Dijon.

Rating: 1 out of 10, The next in my series of bad sci fi “classics” is an early 1960s Italian monstrosity featuring some American “actors” as well as some sullen Italian ones. The American actor plays a 22d century reporter who journeys into space with some unappreciative military types. He’s soon romancing a lady the ship’s captain had already staked out which doesn’t help his cause. They journey to Mars to rescue someone who seems to have spent the rest of the movie on the cargo hold floor where they left him as the rest are distracted with saving earth from a rogue space ship.  A little research showed the American actor was married to Anita Ekberg so you could understand why he was smiling throughout the movie. Bad acting, a stilted plot, and no discernible effort in the special effects department, results in just gloriously bad cinema.

MVP: The very lucky Van Nutter as Mr Ekberg