Hitchcoc Some guys on a space voyage get caught in a time warp and go into the future, five hundred years or so. Like it is in "The Time Machine," our future is populated underground with weak-kneed pacifists and a race of cave men have evolved on the surface. Leave it to our Tweintieth Century guys to bring back war as the only solution. It is a sexist society where the women run around in outfits like 1970's cocktail waitresses. They are quite attractive and the indigenous men are certainly lacking. The rocket men want to help out by building barriers, introducing weaponry, and hence protecting the people that don't want their help. It is reasonably entertaining but the acting is stiff, the interactions unbelievable and short sighted, and the message simplistic. There is certainly a grasp of true science missing here.

wijnandbodrij This must be the dumbest 1950's sci-fi movie ever.It starts of fine, (like an early version of Planet of the Apes)only instead of apes we get a race of "mutates" on the surface of the earth and a small group of "regular humans" who have built a society underground(A lot of similarities with the Timemachine).Our 4 heroes end up in a cave and are taken in by the regular humans,finding out that after a big nuclear war the surface dwellers were mutated into hideous,violent,Cycloptic Neanderthal-like "mutates" due to radiation,and a group of humans went underground.These underground dwellers degenerated into spineless peace loving hippie treehuggers with no stomach for violence whatsoever (which seems logical considering the earth was decimated by nuclear war) Our 4 heroes however disagree with this peaceful society and take it upon themselves to lead the treehuggers back to the surface where humans belong,and propose to create weapons to take the surface back,because the underground society will go extinct due to the oh so obvious inbreeding.Now i am not sure about the morale of this tale but i'm sure American 2nd amendment lovers should adopt this movie.

sol1218 ***SPOILERS*** Top of the line Allied Artists motion picture in both Technicolor and Wide Screen, reserved for the biggest blockbusters of major films studios back in the 1950's, has a quartet of US astronauts end up getting caught in a time warp. This cause their space craft accelerate beyond the speed of light that takes them form the year 1957 to 2508 in a matter of seconds on their maiden flight to Mars as the first men in outer space! Landing on this mysterious and forbidden planet the boys from space John Borden, Hugh Marlow, Dr. Galbarithe,Nelson Leigh, Herbert Ellis, Rod Taylor, & Hank Jaffe, Chris Dark, are at first in the dark to where they are. It's after being attacked by giant spiders as well as mutant and for the most part one eyed cave men that they get the picture, in escaping into an underground cave complex, that the place or planet their on is the good old earth itself!Taken in by the few humans still left on the planet the fly or space boys learn that a nuclear war had broken out in the 22th century and destroyed almost the entire human race. As for the surviving humans lead by the dilapidated and undernourished looking Timmak, Everett Glass, who've over the years had lost their nerve or willingness to fight the mutants and are now satisfied to live out their entire lives underground without as much as even seeing the light of day! It's when the astronauts get a look at the women in the cave who all look like their in their early 20's who just stepped out of a 1950's girlie magazine that they changed their minds about coming back to 20th century earth if that's at all possible. With all the shapely women flocking to the astronauts it's Mories, Booth Colman, one of the wimpy men in the cave , who for some reason all wear shower caps, who plans to discredit the time travelers to his leader Timmak. Mories does this by murdering one of of his fellow futuristic humans James, William Vadder, and then blaming his death on the innocent astronauts.Astronaut John Boden and his men have a tough time proving their innocence but it's young Deena, Lisa Montell, who saw Morise murder James who rats him out to her leader Timmak who was ready to thrown the time traveler out in the wild and at the mercy of the mutant cavemen. This has Morise now exposed as James' murderer run for his life outside the safety of the cave complex only to get caught and brutally beaten to death by the mutant one eye cave-men who were waiting for him outside! By then Borden & Co. finally convinced Timmak and the some 2,000 humans cave dwellers that he's in charge of to finally get their act together, by making and taking up arms, and fight off the mutants before they all end up becoming extinct! In that by them and their offspring's by not getting enough sunlight or vitamin "D" the cave complex populations birth rate has just about dropped to zero!Even though the flight crew were supposed to be future astronauts they wore 10 year old WWII style surplus US Army Air Force bomber and flight jackets not the air tight silvery and robot like astronaut outfits we became used to seeing in the many space flight, by both the US & USSR, over the years since the film was released. There's also Aussie actor Rod Taylor who some four years later would again travel into the future in the movie "The Time Machine" desperately trying to hide his very pronounced Australian accent, and sound American, but being totally unable to do it!

thinker1691 In early Hollywood, movie scripts for any science fiction movie tended to gravitated around a standard formula. There were good guys, a menacing bad guy and of course pretty women. In addition, there was the danger of aliens, monsters or strange creatures. This 1956 science fiction movie had all those ingredients. Interestingly enough, it was Hugh Marlowe, playing the lead character John Borden. Nelson Leigh is brainy Dr. Eldon Galbraithe and Christopher Dark as 'Hank' Jaffe. Surprisingly last was future Mega-Star, Rod Taylor who despite low billing plays athletically handsome Herbert Ellis. Their story is of astronaut Earthmen traveling to Mars, on a routine reconnaissance mission to the red Planet. Unexpectedly, on their return trip, they are thrust into a time vortex and hurled 500 years into the future. There they are confronted with Mutants, Giant spiders and a timid race of humans living below ground, but in a high degree of comfort. A low budget, a slight degree of imagination and a puritanical often cautionary script, made for shallow entertainment. Still with Rod Taylor burgeoning to break out of his scripted shell, the movie displays an entertaining view of future film 'planet of the Apes.' Within the movie itself, there is the addition of much Eye-Candy galore which alone keep in tradition with the 1950's. Enjoy. ***