Post by Zone Fighter on Sept 26, 2005 11:58:55 GMT -8
Assignment: Outer Space (1961) aka Space Men
Rik Von Nutter - Ray Peterson (IZ41)
Gaby Farinon - Lucy (Y13)
David Montresor - George, the Commander
Archie Savage - Al (X15)
Alain Dijon - Archie (Y16)
Frank Fantasia - Sullivan
Joe Pollini - King 116
David Maran - Davis
Jose Nestor - Venus Commander
Anita Todesco - Venus Control
It's 2160. Reporter Ray Peterson is assigned to a space station to report on routine radation checks. At the station he manages to get himself involved in a secret mission . The mission is to stop Alpha 2, a runaway space ship on a course for Earth. The ship's photonic engines will burn the Earth up. (A similar idea is used in an episode of Space: 1999.)
Both the crew of the ship that carries the reporter to the space station and the crew of the station resent having a reporter forced on them by the High Command. The ship's engineer refers the reporter as "Leech", explaing that on this ship he's nothing but a parasite. Peterson does nothing to lessen their rescentment. The station commander and its female navigator are a couple but of course Peterson comes along and makes a triangle.
This Italian made film is not a bad little space opera.
An English dubbed version of Assignment: Outer Space is available on DVD along with Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (Russian) and Warning From Space (Japanese). The disc costs 7 or 8 dollars.