moonspinner55 Film-buffs under the assumption there's a Peter Bogdanovich sci-fi flick from the '60s they somehow missed out on needn't drop everything to see "Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women"--Bogdanovich didn't so much direct the picture under a pseudonym (Derek Thomas) as he did incorporate inserts into and lay a narration over already-existing footage. After a two man-one robot space exploration team runs into trouble on dinosaur-infested Venus, three astronauts from the Command Center blast off on a rescue mission. Most of the footage was lifted from the 1962 Soviet film "Planeta bur" (which had already been dubbed into English in 1965 as "Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet", featuring new inserts of Basil Rathbone and Faith Domergue). Bogdanovich also used special effects shots from a second Soviet film, "The Sky Calls" from 1959. It's an oddity, nothing more, one which proved merely a stepping stone for Bogdanovich and wife Polly Platt (credited as production coordinator) just before loftier projects came their way. * from ****

bkoganbing Although Planet Of Prehistoric Women's mother film Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet had some interesting aspects to it, this one is a total dud. Unless of course all you want to see is Mamie Van Doren and those scantily clad Venusian babes. All of them Playboy playmates or could qualify for same.Honestly if the earth people knew what was on Venus, they'd be rushing pell mell to get to the shrouded second planet.This film is a re-edited version of the first film with some added footage of Mamie and her clan. It seems as though the earth astronauts have killed the flying reptile the Venusians worship as a god. Causing a theological revolution on the place.Unless you like Mamie and those twin weapons of mass destruction she sports, I'd pass this one up.

MartianOctocretr5 One of the goofiest cut'n'paste jobs ever foisted on Earthlings (or Vensusians). An old Russian film's footage was grabbed by B-movie king, Roger Corman. Newly shot footage is inexplicably created, and then all this stuff is mushed together. Such is the genesis of this lovable cheese fest, Planet of the Prehistoric Women. (A note: the original film, Planeta Burg, was re-edited twice in this manner; see Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet.)The new spliced-in nonsense is what makes this drive-in 2nd feature so memorably ridiculous. A bunch of platinum bleach blonds sleep on Venus's Malibu beach, talk in filtered ESP, and worship a rubber pterodactyl they call Ptera. What they're doing is completely disconnected from the plot of original footage; cosmonauts crash landing on Venus, and a second ship is sent to rescue them.There are a few glaring errors. Example: everybody knows that Venusian girls only wear bell-bottom hip-hugger jeans and sea-shell bras with designer labels, not cheap imitations from their local V-Mart. Also, who forgot to give them Cool-Ray sunglasses that every Venusian girl wears? There are other such goofs, and the director obviously did not research these facts.The original Russian footage is the stuff of good old fashioned sci-fi. Dino-men running around, the slow moving hover-craft, cool monsters, a loyal robot, the awful dubbing, etc. Good stuff. And Robot John gets a better fate in this version than the other versions.

ClearThinker This film is so awful it's brilliant.The film is actually a re-edit of a Soviet science fiction film with extra footage of young American girls. Very low budget. The two sets of actors never actually meet.All the voices are dubbed on afterwards. This covers up the fact that the astronauts are speaking Russian. The "Prehistoric women" communicate through thought waves, so none of them have to talk and act at the same time! I watched this on Sumo TV in the UK. The version I saw still had all the cinema adds spliced in. The adverts for ice cream, popcorn and hot chocolate were still there. There was also an advert for CocaCola.The whole thing looks like someone had filmed the thing from the stalls on an old Cine camera. Picture blurred and fuzzy, colour almost bleached away.Unfortunately none of the US actors ever went on to do anything of any significance. The leading lady, Mamie Van Doren, seems to have built her reputation around being a former Hollywood starlet who was supposed to be the next Marylin Monroe and spent five years dating Howard Hughes, from the age of 15! Directed by Peter Bogdanovich (Famous director and also Dr. Elliot Kupferberg in The Sopranos TV series)Any prospective actor/producer/director should see some of this.