Weird Worlds Collection

4 DVD Set

On the launch pad is this great set of 4 restored and classic Sci-Fi flicks from the fifties & sixties! Featuring two flicks derived from or directly written by Sci-Fi legend Robert Heinlein, the East German epic First Spaceship On Venus and the classic space opera The Phantom Planet. Thrilling stuff! This 4 DVD set is brand new in shrinkwrap. Note that this is a Region 1 set & so may not initially play on some (usually older) players. There are plenty of fixes around for region code issues so if you are concerned please contact me & I'll advise. All of my DVDs are genuine, official releases. 

Leave that dreary old Planet Earth behind with four fantastic tales of interstellar adventure! Your first stop blasts into futuristic 1980 on The Phantom Planet where hapless astronauts are shrunk to a mere six inches tall and held captive in the middle of an alien war! Then grab a seat on the First Spaceship to Venus which races against time to reach the mystery-shrouded planet to ward off an impending attack! Then we cruise closer to home for Destination Moon the colorful and groundbreaking George Pal saga of mankind's first lunar expedition. Finally settle into Project Moonbase the gripping Robert Heinlein thriller about two astronauts stranded in space thanks to a ruthless Russian spy. Packed with much out-of-this-world excitement these cosmic capers are so fun you'll never want to come home again!

Destination Moon (1950)
Producer George Pal assembled an impressive roster of behind-the-camera talent -- including noted science fiction author Robert Heinlein and artist Chelsey Bonestell -- for this pioneering sci-fi adventure. Scientist Dr. Charles Cargraves (Warner Anderson), former Air Force General Thayer (Tom Powers), and industrial tycoon Jim Barnes (John Archer) believe that it's time that the U.S. blazed new trails and found new adventures. Convinced that exploration of space is the wave of the future (and that America's dominance in space is vitally important if they are to continue to dominate the Earth), the three men begin planning and constructing a spaceship called "Luna" in the Mojave Desert that will take the men to the moon and back. However, anti-American forces begin flooding the press with propaganda against the moon mission, and finally the men make their way to moon without the aid of the federal government. While the men are thrilled to succeed in their mission, it turns out that they miscalculated the amount of fuel needed to return -- and that the rocket needs to drop a lot of weight if it is to return to Earth. Destination Moon won an Academy Award for Best Special Effects of 1950; the film also features a brief appearance by cartoon favorite Woody Woodpecker, who helps explain how rockets work.

Project Moonbase (1953)
Co-authored by Robert Heinlein and originally produced as a proposed television series to be called Ring Around the Moon. Heinlein and company continue their commitment to credible space science, but, taking a hint from George Pal's experience, add a melodramatic plotline about Communist subversion. The resulting odd mix of scientific authenticity and Cold War paranoia was not widely released and soon became obscure.

1970. The United States Space Force's latest moon mission is infiltrated by a foreign power identified only as "the enemy of freedom." After a struggle with a saboteur, the ship makes an emergency landing just over the horizon on the dark side of the moon. To communicate with home base, the spacemen must climb a lunar mountain to point a radio antenna at the Earth.

The science is exemplary. Spacemen wear skullcap headgear and walk on the walls and ceiling, just as they do in Kubrick's epic. There are only a few awkward props, such as a portable communicator that's just an old telephone receiver with a big antenna attached.

Extras
-Theatrical Trailer

The Phantom Planet (1961)
In the off-beat sci-fi adventure The Phantom Planet, an astronaut must make a forced landing upon a remote asteroid. His ship is damaged and he must breathe the planet's atmosphere. Soon he begins shrinking and once he gets down to six inches discovers the place populated by diminutive people who have turned the flying rock into a ship. He soon joins forces with the little people to defeat the monstrous solarites, terrifying creatures out to eat them.

First Spaceship On Venus (1962)
Originally released in East Germany as Der Schweigende Stern ("The Silent Star") and in Poland as Milczaca gwiazda, First Spaceship on Venus was partially intended as an anti-nuclear tract. In 1985, a strange, extraterrestrial spool is discovered, leading to a manned expedition to Venus. The multinational crew includes American Brinkman (Gunther Simon), African Talua (Juliusz Ongewe), and Japanese Sumiko Ogimura (Yoko Tani). After several special-effects setpieces, the crew lands on Venus. After some harrowing adventures on the blasted, ruined surface of the dead planet, they determine that the Venusians were planning to attack the Earth but accidentally annihilated themselves with their own weapons. The cities may be lifeless but vast machines still operate underground. The brave cosmonauts are threatened when one of these machines is inadvertently disturbed. The film was based on a novel by noted Eastern Bloc sci-fi novelist Stanislaw Lem.

Extras
-Theatrical Trailer
-Previews

Rating: NR (PG)
Languages: English
Production Year: 2006 (Set)
Discs: 4
Region : 1 (NTSC)
Screen Format: 1.33:1 or 2.35:1
Duration: 314 min (Features only) 

Item Weight: 170g

Package Capacity: Full

Local Pick Up Discount: $10.00

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