Willinois

This is an odd little film. It was started in 1967 and never finished due to financing problems, finished is 1972 without the original cast, borrowing effects from Yosei Gorasu (1962) and The Wizard of Mars (1965) and a voice over to end the film. If anything the film gets credit for being an early appearance by a pre-M.A.S.H., Mike Farrell. I think he has three lines as Reporter #1 and Casey Kasem as a Mission Control Officer.

In a nut shell, the year in 1976 and the date of mission to Venus is suddenly pushed a head. Three of the all male crew is suddenly replaced by three females, much to the anger of the remaining men. Yeah, two years in a spaceship with three beautiful women and the men are complaining. “Women? Now I’ve heard everything!” one crewman exclaims! There is a reason for this that gets explained as the film plays out. It just might have something to do with the name of the film, The Doomsday Machine.

Here are a few of the films highlights. CAUTION: The end of the film is included. Get the Flash Player to see this player.

This is one of those examples of film making at it’s worse. Bad dialoge, horrible not-so-speacial effects, and a pathedic attempt to add an ending to an unfinshed film. The interor shots of the spaceship is filled with pointess colored lights of red, green and blues and the exterior shots of the ship change don’t make any sense. The white jumpsuit, football hemet spacesuits are classic, but are replaced at the end with more NASA like helmets, but that was only to hide the new actors who were filmed five years later to finish the film.

The highlight of the film has to be the reaction of the crew to Earth’s distruction and the reaction of the crew, and then the attempted rape, open airlock scenes. Here and there you’ll find a couple a tease shots. like the women changing clothes, but since was 1967, there really isn’t much there. Far too tame for today’s standards, or even 1972 standards, really.

Cheese factor, 4 out of 5 Cheeses.

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