First Spaceship on Venus (1962)

Very disappointed :(

Let's be realistic.

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

I'll never turn down the opportunity to watch an old sci-fi or horror B movie. They represent some of my favorite guilty pleasures. But this one didn't work for me at all.I have a feeling that the dubbed script didn't translate properly. I'm also sure the available version has been cut to shreds - at least I hope it was because I could make little sense from of any of it.The plot may potentially have been interesting but I was lost from the opening moments over the frenetic analyzing of the "spool" (or whatever it was). The casting went way overboard in trying to make the crew into a miniature League of Nations. I'm sure it was intended as a fine gesture but it was so contrived as to be irritating. The various creatures and situations encountered on the planet were all over the map (Venusian map that is). At some points I wondered if a different movie had been inadvertently spliced in during the editing process.I really don't like giving low scores to movies like this because I believe they need to be rated in an alternative manner but I'm stretching just to give it a 3.

When an alien artifact discovered on Earth is found to have come from Venus, an international team of astronauts embarks to investigate its origins.Odd film made in East Germany during the cold war.When the film came to the states characters were switched in the dubbing.The film is interesting as a curio piece on two levels....the cold war angle AND just because it's sci fi from 1960 set in 1985.Over all the problem with the film is that it's overly slow. The action doesn't really get going until 2/3s into the film. But it's in color which is a rarity for a film made in 1960.It's worth a look see if you're a die hard early sci fi fan. If not you probably should move along.

This is an apparently Soviet-Bloc (from East Germany and Poland) film that has been dubbed into English. How much of the original story is preserved is unknown. Several similar films were re-dubbed during the 1960s and the efforts were, to put it mildly, very sad. But it's easy to tell its Communist origins--dig those crazy Commie hairdos so popular in the 1960s! This film begins with a scientist announcing that a famous meteorite that struck Siberia and laid waste to so much of it in 1906 was actually a Venusian space ship! Because of this, he urged the international space effort to change their plan to visit Mars and go to Venus instead—who cares about the extremely high temperatures and metal-smashing atmosphere (two facts never mentioned in this film). In fact, who cares that in this film there is no zero gravity in space, rockets decelerate when the engines are cut in space (space is a vacuum or near-vacuum—deceleration does not occur in this state), people are thrown about the ship as it steers and other "facts" that are contradicted by the laws of physics! Once the ship nears the planet, one of the crew members figures out the Venusian language and realizes that these people were planning on attacking the Earth and wiping out everyone. Now their goal is to reach those in charge on Venus and convince them not to attack. However, various radioactive attacks are launched on the team once they near the planet and things look pretty bad for the Earth. And, when they finally are able to penetrate the planet's defenses, a surprising thing is learned about the Venusians themselves.The film looks extremely primitive today, but when it debuted its special effects and costumes were actually quite advanced. With 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY and subsequent sci-fi films, we've come to expect a much higher level of sophistication in the look of space travel but if you look at the film in context, it was well done. My biggest problem isn't the effects but the last 25 minutes of the film—when it just becomes incredibly talky. Again and again, the characters just go on and on and on as well as come up with amazingly uncanny conclusions about Venus—things they could have only gotten by reading the script! This made the film a bit of a letdown towards the end, but still, I have seen worse sci-fi films and the dubbing was actually pretty good. Worth seeing for sci-fi fans, though most others probably won't be that impressed today.

I don't have much to say here. I just finished watching First Spaceship on Venus from 1960. It's exactly what is says, a movie about the first spaceship on Venus.Words can't really describe how incredibly bad this movie is. Perhaps it is because it is dubbed over from it's original German dialogue, but even without dialogue it is pretty clear what is going on. A team of scientists intercept a message from deep space, fly to the source, discover alien life, learn a lot about the universe and each other along the way. Very basic for a science fiction movie from the 50s and 60s.Still, this is a special one. I don't think I've come across one so poorly put together in just about every possible aspect of production. It's a wonder that the producers didn't have these people arrested for attempting to release this. There are so many things wrong within the first few minutes that you start to tune out what is happening and just start enjoying the garbage being thrown at you.I think I have said too much. I recommend you watch the movie to see how a movie should NEVER be made.