Actors: Dean Fredericks, Coleen Gray,
Anthony Dexter, Francis X. Bushman, Richard Kiel
Rating: 2 out of 10, The next in my trek
through bad cinema wasn’t execrably bad. You first have to dismiss the ludicrous
plot but this could have survived as a bad Star Trek episode. It’s a 1961 black
and white film looking into the distant future of 1980 when the US Air Force
has bases on the moon to explore the solar system. One of those explorers meets
the phantom planet where the inhabitants are three inches tall. As soon as he’s
exposed to their environment he shrinks down as well and is soon caught in a
love triangle and an ongoing war with some buy eyed monsters, one of whom was played
by Richard Kiel of 007 Jaws fame. The effects were laughably bad – space suits
with sweat stained under arms but this was at least watchable.
MVP: Fredericks as Chapman the incredible
shrinking astronaut
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