The title of this film suggests a space expedition of a bunch of men who are lonely finding a planet full of buxom beauties and is typically the type of film one tends to find on late at night on Cinemax. I think there are a couple of films that have titles similar to this one that do pretty much follow that formula. This one, however, is nothing like that and instead is a rather strange film where there are no women on any prehistoric planet. There is a prehistoric planet though, so that portion of the title at least is not misleading. I saw this film as an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, and while not entirely bad, it is kind of a silly movie featuring John Agar who would go on to star in a few more movies riffed by the gang on the satellite of love. It would also feature Wendell Corey who was also in another film they riffed, Agent for H.A.R.M. The film does do a somewhat good job of creating another world, however, like most science fiction films of the era, the prehistoric wildlife consists of a lizard being projected to look big, your typical boa constrictor snake and a plush toy spider. Still, considering what they had to work with back then, they did okay.
The story has a ship being hijacked by a race of people called Centurions. By hijacking the ship, they cause it to crash on a mysterious and unexplored planet. Another ship goes to the rescue, but due to the fact their ship is traveling at the speed of light, by the time they reach the planet 18 years has passed by, while the people on the rescue ship have not aged at all. A team goes out to explore the planet and find the wreckage of the ship in the slim hopes there were survivors; however, Linda, who is also a Centurion yearns to breath in the fresh air and goes exploring the planet herself and meets up with a young man named Tang whose parents were part of the crew that crashed. A romance blossoms even as the rescue team begins to crumble under the stress and the captain must decide how to go about finding Linda and getting them off the prehistoric planet.
This movie was featured on the first season of MST3K, so the riffs are okay, but at this point they had not hit their stride yet. Servo was still being voiced by the one guy who just did not nail the riffs nearly as good as Kevin Murphy would do from the second season till shows initial end. Like I said, it was okay, but the movie actually carried this one as it was not too terribly bad. The film might have actually been good if not for the horrific comic relief guy and the guy from "Agent From H.A.R.M" who like in that film seems inebriated and slurs most of his lines. Then there are points that are just ridiculous where the rescue team crosses a log over an acidic pond when you can see a perfectly good land bridge only five feet from the log. Of course, that made for one of the better riffs and laughs as well as the plush toy spider attack!
So, the film had some good points, had this one been made later it would have probably been a fairly decent soft core adult film. Heck, the way the film plays out, add a couple of more females and it could have made a good hardcore too as the plot really does seem to suggest some of the crew are getting randy. However, during the time it was made, we have to have very short peeks and use are imagination and that does not really carry the day. More wildlife attacks could have helped this one as well as no horrible comic relief guy or actor who apparently had one hell of a drinking problem. Still, as far as science fiction films of the 60's, it was pretty typical.
The story has a ship being hijacked by a race of people called Centurions. By hijacking the ship, they cause it to crash on a mysterious and unexplored planet. Another ship goes to the rescue, but due to the fact their ship is traveling at the speed of light, by the time they reach the planet 18 years has passed by, while the people on the rescue ship have not aged at all. A team goes out to explore the planet and find the wreckage of the ship in the slim hopes there were survivors; however, Linda, who is also a Centurion yearns to breath in the fresh air and goes exploring the planet herself and meets up with a young man named Tang whose parents were part of the crew that crashed. A romance blossoms even as the rescue team begins to crumble under the stress and the captain must decide how to go about finding Linda and getting them off the prehistoric planet.
This movie was featured on the first season of MST3K, so the riffs are okay, but at this point they had not hit their stride yet. Servo was still being voiced by the one guy who just did not nail the riffs nearly as good as Kevin Murphy would do from the second season till shows initial end. Like I said, it was okay, but the movie actually carried this one as it was not too terribly bad. The film might have actually been good if not for the horrific comic relief guy and the guy from "Agent From H.A.R.M" who like in that film seems inebriated and slurs most of his lines. Then there are points that are just ridiculous where the rescue team crosses a log over an acidic pond when you can see a perfectly good land bridge only five feet from the log. Of course, that made for one of the better riffs and laughs as well as the plush toy spider attack!
So, the film had some good points, had this one been made later it would have probably been a fairly decent soft core adult film. Heck, the way the film plays out, add a couple of more females and it could have made a good hardcore too as the plot really does seem to suggest some of the crew are getting randy. However, during the time it was made, we have to have very short peeks and use are imagination and that does not really carry the day. More wildlife attacks could have helped this one as well as no horrible comic relief guy or actor who apparently had one hell of a drinking problem. Still, as far as science fiction films of the 60's, it was pretty typical.