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[Eadie]

La Nave de los Monstruos (English: The Ship of the Monsters) is a 1960 Mexican comic science fiction film. It was produced by Jesús Sotomayor Martínez, directed by Rogelio A. González, and starred Eulalio González, Ana Bertha Lepe and Lorena Velázquez. The screenplay, by Alfredo Varela, Jr., was based on a story by José María Fernández Unsáin.

Plot

Two Venusian women, Gamma (Lepe) and Beta (Velázquez), are sent on a mission by their queen (Consuelo Frank) to search for males to repopulate the planet. Along the way, they and their servant, Tor the robot, acquire a colorful array of male extraterrestrial creatures in their "ship of monsters", including Martian prince Tagual, Uk the cyclops, Utirr the spider and skeletal Zok. Landing in Mexico, Gamma and Beta become enamored with singing cowboy Lauriano (Eulalio González).

Cast

Eulalio González as Lauriano Treviño Gómez
Ana Bertha Lepe as Gamma
Lorena Velázquez as Beta
Consuelo Frank as Regente de Venus
Manuel Alvarado as Ruperto
Heberto Dávila, Jr. as Chuy Treviño Gómez
Mario García "Harapos" as Borracho
José Pardavé as Atenógenes
Jesús Rodríguez Cárdenas

Reception

Filmstruck critic Jeff Stafford called it "one of the more exotic genre hybrids that emerged from Mexico in the early sixties, mixing sci-fi, horror and Western elements into something uniquely original".

Beth Accomando of KPBS praised the film, saying, "You'll find deliciously low budget sets Ed Wood would die for; a know-it-all robot; babes in bathing suit space uniforms; and a refreshing Mexican take on American sci-fi conventions".























Complete movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvGaXiu2bRA
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Bogmeister has a thread for this movie on his board, The Base of Galactic Science Fiction, but he didn't really bother to write an original review, he just posted an excerpt from a reference book by David Elroy Goldweber and a link to the YouTube video.

I watched bits and pieces of it just for fun. The spaceship's interior is nice (as your jegs show) along with the two shapely ladies and the funny cowboy hero (yes, he's a cowboy).

Thanks for adding this Mexican import to All Sci-Fi's rooster of science fiction fiction movies, Senorita Eadie!
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)