Doomsday Machine

Unrated

1/1/19721h 23m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ See! The Earth Destroyed In A Nuclear Holocaust! ~

Overview:

Following the discovery of a doomsday machine capable of destroying Earth, the launch of a US space mission to Venus is taken over by the military.

Director:

Lee Sholem

Status:

Released

Language:

English

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Key words:

nuclear war
radiation
space travel
end of the world
astronaut
venus the planet
outer space

Cast

Bobby Van

~ as ~

Danny

Ruta Lee

~ as ~

Dr. Marion Turner

Mala Powers

~ as ~

Maj. Georgianna Bronski

James Craig

~ as ~

Dr. Haines

Grant Williams

~ as ~

Maj. Kurt Mason

Henry Wilcoxon

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Dr. Christopher Perry

Essie Lin Chia

~ as ~

Girl Spy

Casey Kasem

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Mission Control Officer

Lorri Scott

~ as ~

Lt. Katie Carlson

Denny Miller

~ as ~

Col. Don Price

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Reviews (1)

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talisencrw
Written 9 year(s) ago
5
I can see the light at the end of the proverbial tunnel, as I'm nearing the end of my infamous Mill Creek 50-film 'Nightmare Worlds' pack. This was a really strange viewing experience, and honestly made me wonder if my red wine had been spiked with some hallucinogen by some ne'er-do-well prankster. It had some intriguing ideas, a big one being that the USA and USSR are afraid that China is going to destroy the world, so at the last minute, just before a scheduled space flight to investigate Venus, NASA administrators replace three of the astronauts with female counterparts, and include a mysterious large suitcase.

Though it says 1972, you can distinctly feel that it was made years earlier, before the game-changers of '2001: A Space Odyssey' and the manned space flight to the moon completely changed the way sci-fi films were made (unless you're the sad saps behind monstrosities such as 'Star Odyssey', that go on as if any relationship with the way things are in real life is an entirely accidental and unintended coincidence). Most of it was made in 1966, but funding ran out, and it shows. The filmmakers couldn't even afford the intended climax, and that shows--the film simply ends. But for all of that, this bizarre experiment of a forced Adam and Eve scenario in outer space, as a future for Earth, is decent--and it would be two generations later, when in Christopher Nolan's 'Interstellar', that this idea would be fully realized with human decency and artistic integrity.