May 30, 2011
The Phantom Planet (1961)
The 1961 low-budget sci-fi semi-epic The Phantom Planet: better than you might expect. Francis X. Bushman brings a life's worth of disappointment to his role as the shrinking king, and the effects are pretty great, considering the micro-budget.
You can download a really good transfer from the Internet Archive, or if you're in Chicago you can see it on actual 16mm film on September 2 as part of my new Shock Theater from the Cinema Dementia Collection horror and sci-fi series. It will be paired with another B-movie space opera, Night of the Blood Beast.
For more on the series, read an extensive interview with me over at Movie Morlocks, TCM's blog.
Posted by mike, May 30, 2011 9:54 AMComments
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