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Today's threads are about the New Frontiers of Science!

~ Battle Beyond the Sun (1963) Americanizes a Russian film about two nations trying to reach Mars first, and the end up help each other when things go wrong.

~ Over the Moon - Dr. Connie Radar (2013) is a sexy short film which spokes fun at the Apollo astronauts.

~ The Flame Barrier (1958) features the lovely Kathleen Crowley in the jungle, looking for a lost satellite and looking might sexy in scenes like thsl,



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Battle Beyond the Sun (1963)



This was originally a Russian film called "Nebo Zovyot" (1959), about rival missions to Mars -- Russian and American.

Sidebar: God, I miss the days when the Ruskies kept us on our toes! We haven't done anything really great in space since Apollo 17 -- except for the space shuttle -- which has been retired.



Anyway, in the Russian movie both nations desperately want to be first to reach Mars, so both spacecraft rush their departures, and one of them doesn't have the necessary fuel for the round trip (guess which one). There's plenty of scenes involving rockets and space stations, and the special effects are fairly good.





Enterprising Roger Corman bought the Russian movie and refashioned it, removing the plot elements that portrayed the Russian astronauts as heroes struggling against villainous American astronauts.



In the new version the competing astronauts are from fictitious countries. A battle scene between two monsters on a Martian moon was filmed and inserted by young Francis Ford Coppola. A penis-shaped monster fights a vagina-shaped monster!



They even featured them in the poster!

The Russians should sue.

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Over the Moon - Dr. Connie Radar (2013)

This little gem is so incredibly well done. And the gal is hotter than Mercury's day side! Yow!






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The Flame Barrier (1958)




Kathleen Crowley ("Target Earth") hires Arthur Franz (Flight to Mars, Invaders from Mars, Atomic Submarine) to accompany her into the jungle to find her husband, who went searching for a lost satellite.





They find the satellite and the body of the husband, both embedded in a clear mass of living protoplasm the satellite brought back. The alien mass is periodically growing larger by drawing electrical energy from a vein of metal ore in the cave the dead scientist moved it to.





The growing mass threatens the world in some manner which escapes me, so Kathleen, Arthur, and his loyal brother devise a plan to overload the alien organism with one of those electrical feedback thingies that sci-fi screenwriters are fond of.





Beware of a long delay before they reach this rather impressive scene, but the drop-dead gorgeous Miss Crowley provides some persistent eye candy for male viewers.





Despite what every review I've read says about the movie, it's actually fairly entertaining. The jungle adventure that proceeds the discovery of the satellite and the alien mass is pretty good.





Directed by Paul Landres from a script by Pat Fielder based on a story by George Worthing Yates.

Unfortunately there are no official DVDs or VHS tapes of this movie. The downloads from Stagevu and Youtube look pretty bad. But the Youtube version can be used to make screen grabs that look surprisingly good when compared to the video itself — like these shots of Miss Crowley when she blatantly teases the audience during a scene in which she changes her clothes for real important reasons that develop the characters and further the plot.

Okay, I'm lying. But she sure looks good.











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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)