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Upon arrival on Venus, a team of cosmonauts finds a hostile environment filled with furious volcanoes and sundry prehistoric beasts, including a cackling, swooping pterodactyl. Working from a dullish source, director Klushantsev went his 1958 Venusian cosmonaut epic ROAD TO THE STARS one better with this Soviet classic, overpowering the party-line dialogue with excellent poetic effects. PLANET OF STORMS was subsequently bought by Roger Corman, who used Klushantsev's footage as the basis of Curtis Harrington's 1965 VOYAGE TO THE PREHISTORIC PLANET and later incorporated footage from the film in Harrington's 1966 QUEEN OF BLOOD. Never one to look a gift horse in the mouth, Corman ran PLANET OF STORMS through the recycling spin cycle one more time with 1968's Mamie Van Doren vehicle VOYAGE TO THE PLANET OF PREHISTORIC WOMEN, which was the directorial debut of Peter Bogdanovich, no less.
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