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William MarshallThe Phantom Planet (1961)

A spaceship is drawn towards a planet populated by tiny people where the atmosphere shrinks the astronauts as well.

This film was featured on the television program Mystery Science Theater 3000.

You can find an MP4 of this film here.

You can find out more about this film on its IMDB page.


This movie is part of the collection: Sci-Fi / Horror

Director: William Marshall
Producer: Fred Gebhardt
Production Company: Four Crown Productions Inc.
Audio/Visual: sound, b&w
Language: English
Keywords: sci-fi; MST3K; space travel

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: salt4pepper - - June 11, 2009
Subject: Unremarkable, but worth watching
I agree with everything Dave (who isn't here) is saying, but this was one of the most unremarkable and unmemorable movies I have ever seen.

I got this in a boxed set of cheesy sci fi movies (yes, I search them out), and have seen it several times. Each time is new to me because so few scenes stand out.

I give it a 5 for cheese value, but the feeling of having wasted an hour and a few minutes drops the rating to a 3.

Reviewer: daves_not_here - - January 12, 2009
Subject: This is only the beginning....
Wow!! This was great. I sat through the whole thing, knowing exactly where MST3K would be punctuating it.
For me, it's the overly phallic spaceship, which I'm sure started life as a vibrator. No longer working, the producer's wife still couldn't bare to part with "Ol Faithful", so she told her cuckhold hubby to put it in his next film somewhere...
And that was just the beginning of this plotless affair...

Everything is classic, from using a chunk of lava rock, and calling it a planet, to the spiky broken-glass looking things controlling the gravity thingy, the bits of linoleum representing dissintigrating plates, it's all so-much camp, and had me laughing through-out this whole cinematic suppository.
Simply for entertainment value, I give it a full (5) *****;;
For the ham and cheezy acting (5)*****. In fact, for the space walk alone, where there is not even the pretense that there's no gravity--boy that 1 stabilizing fin is conveniently placed so we can stroll across it.
Nice classic lines: "push that radar harder, keep pushing it harder"
Overall, a (5)*****, and a must-see.