Film-buffs under the assumption there's a Peter Bogdanovich sci-fi flick from the '60s they somehow missed out on needn't drop everything to see "Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women"--Bogdanovich didn't so much direct the picture under a pseudonym (Derek Thomas) as he did incorporate inserts into and lay a narration over already-existing footage. After a two man-one robot space exploration team runs into trouble on dinosaur-infested Venus, three astronauts from the Command Center blast off on a rescue mission. Most of the footage was lifted from the 1962 Soviet film "Planeta bur" (which had already been dubbed into English in 1965 as "Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet", featuring new inserts of Basil Rathbone and Faith Domergue). Bogdanovich also used special effects shots from a second Soviet film, "The Sky Calls" from 1959. It's an oddity, nothing more, one which proved merely a stepping stone for Bogdanovich and wife Polly Platt (credited as production coordinator) just before loftier projects came their way. * from ****
