Unless you want to be a toothpick for a giant crab. This science fiction film is watchable but silly, a bit slow at times but often humorous in both intentional and unintentional ways. A group of astronauts and scientists are searching the globe for a livable planet to sustain human life, and somehow get off course. They end up underwater on an unnamed planet (that is until the end of the film) that surprisingly looks like Earth. In fact, it would have been a very funny twist if indeed it had been Earth and they didn't realize that where they landed had the creatures that they discovered.
Made on a very low budget, produced and directed by Leonard Katzman, this is the type of film that may not be as interest to young audiences today, but I'm sure teenage boys in the sixties loved it, as well as those who discovered it on TV up until maybe the early 90's. There certainly has been a lot worse films about space exploration, and the creatures they discover underwater really aren't very scary. What is funny is what a certain spaceship they see out in space actually looks like. There's a bit of amusing snark between scientists Francine York and the male astronauts, but of course that turns into romance with one of them. Not very realistic in the least, but a pleasant discovery for fans of Science Fiction and other film students.
Made on a very low budget, produced and directed by Leonard Katzman, this is the type of film that may not be as interest to young audiences today, but I'm sure teenage boys in the sixties loved it, as well as those who discovered it on TV up until maybe the early 90's. There certainly has been a lot worse films about space exploration, and the creatures they discover underwater really aren't very scary. What is funny is what a certain spaceship they see out in space actually looks like. There's a bit of amusing snark between scientists Francine York and the male astronauts, but of course that turns into romance with one of them. Not very realistic in the least, but a pleasant discovery for fans of Science Fiction and other film students.