If this was colorized, it was a fine job. I never heard of this before. Enjoyed it. I'll be 80 in a few weeks. We didn't watch TV growig up. Jan. 30, 2024. St. Joseph, MO, USA
I found all the acting stiff and devoid of emotion, it looked like a bunch of chess pieces in space suits. Then I noticed it was made in the Soviet Union.
It's awkward bc of the voice overs. I'm sure if it was still in Russia are you understood it in it's original tounge, it would seem much more natural. I'm sure you didn't realize this was a Soviet classic when you made this comment.
J'ai vu quelques classiques du cinéma de science fiction avec mes parents dans les années 1968-69 sur notre télévision en noir et blanc (War of the World, Forbidden Planet et les séries TV Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea ; the Invaders...) Je ne connaissais pas ce film, mais je le trouve super ! Et bien supérieur à ce que l'on peut voir aujourd'hui ! Merci beaucoup du partage !
A 1959 Russian space movie titled Nebo Zovyot (The Sky Calls) - dubbed in English. "Roger Corman acquired the Soviet film for US distribution and hired a young film-school student named Francis Ford Coppola to 'Americanize' it." - Wikipedia
I never heard of this movie before... that said: In 1959, he made Battle Beyond the Sun. In 1980, Roger Corman felt one sun wasn't enough....so he made Battle Beyond the Stars! (One of my favorite movies as a kid, and a nice tribute to Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven ...which also featured Robert Vaughan).
In reality, Corman only edited the original 1959 Russian film in 1962, cutting scenes and adding others filmed by Coppola, such as the fight of the monsters.
I grew up watching old films since I was 13 years old, I'm 23 years old now and I keep watching them because without the wisdom of the past we wouldn't know anything about the future, great film my name is Emanuel Jeronimo, thank you
I have to say 2 things to you. 1) I'm 50 and I've been watching old sci-fi and regular films since I was 9 or so. it really interested me then and still does now. 2) you must be the most rare young human on the planet because most dudes your age would cringe to watch old classic movies. God bless you and Keep on educating yourself.
@@bigben1986 Here a 20 YO dude who enjoy and apreciate those movies!😂 I know I'm not like others but... How Am I supposed to feel cringe to watch old classic movies? I love them!, I love the cinema, the classic and the old movies, they are just my passion! Hope you have a nice day and a Happy New Year!! 😊
Ok this is awesome. I guess it;s the younger dudes I'm surrounded by who just hate anything that happened last week lol Glad you like the old stuff it is very interesting because a lot of scifi was out way before NASA was created which at times has me thinking. Happy New Year to you as well. @@kashmirsabbath2479
Growing up in Milford Michigan deep in the country my dad and i watched the Sci-Fi movie of week. It was Saturday nights. Im 65 yrs old. All these classic movies i have seen before . We would have freshly made Hot popcorn and a Pepsi. To this day i only watch classic movies. Im not a fan of movies made in today's world. Watching a good classic like this movie i find as intrigued today as i was as that little boy eating Popcorn and enjoying My dad worked through the week and would be tired. But Saturdays i was his top priority to make sure i had a wonderful Saturday. I was a only child.Im so blessed to have had the loving parents i had.As a little boy my mom taught me how to cook and do things. She said someday I would be married and shared responsibilities are important in being married. Im happily married and have a family i wonder if parents today take the time to do things as parents did back then. For some reason this movie brought back memories and good memories they are, ❤
Oh ja es gibt diese Menschen auch heute noch. Ich mach genau das Gleiche. Hier wird nach altem Stil gekocht, Filme gesehen, Sonntags Spaziergang, die Fläche vor dem Haus am sSonntag säubern, Gemeinschaft pflegen, selbst versorgen und Ökologie und Ökonomie als Tagespflicht ansehen und und und
Corman apparently had a thing for Iron Curtain sci-fi. He also kinda/sorta borrowed the Russian "Planeta Bur", threw in a couple scenes with Basil Rathbone, and called it "Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet"
If it's the same movie that I think it is, it was also re-edited again. It was called Voyage To The Planet Of Prehistoric Women. Somewhere in storage I have a copy of both. The second time they edited in a bunch of scenes with women in leather bikinis. It's one of the worst B movies I've ever seen. Actually it's more like a Z movie, that's how bad it was.
I believe that in the 50s America and the USSR trusted each other more and there was friendship. Of course, between nations, ordinary people. This does not concern politicians in power. There was an exchange of knowledge between scientists. Now science is stomping on the spot. Corporations (TNCs), greedy for money, are to blame for everything. They don't understand that they won't take anything with them to the next world.
"Battle Beyond the Sun" is a 1962 science fiction film. It is an English-dubbed and re-edited American version of "Nebo Zovyot", a 1959 Soviet science fiction film. Roger Corman acquired the Soviet film for US distribution and hired a young film-school student named Francis Ford Coppola to "Americanize" it. Like the original Soviet Nebo Zovyot, Battle Beyond the Sun is a tale of a "space race" between two nations competing to become the first to land a spacecraft on the planet Mars; unlike the original, in which the competing nations are the USSR and the US, Battle Beyond the Sun focuses on the fictional future countries of North Hemis and South Hemis. The names of not only the Soviet characters, but also their performers, and the crew credits as well, were altered on the screen to American-sounding names in order to further disguise the film's origins: thus Soviet stars Aleksandr Shvorin and Ivan Pereverzev became "Andy Stewart" and "Edd Perry", and Soviet directors Mikhail Karyukov and Aleksandr Kozyr became "Maurice Kaplin" and "Arthur Corwin" - and were demoted to Assistant Director status as well. The Overlook Film Guide: Science-Fiction remarked: "(One) remains impressed with Corman's cheek and financial astuteness than with the finished film." While recommending the original version, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction called the Americanized version "butchered" (Wikipedia)
Indeed it is Butchered. Thank you for your great insight. I could tell by the overall style that this was a Soviet film, but came here to receive enlightenment. You're very knowledgeable on the subject.
This is an edited american version. Battle Beyond the Sun started as a state-sponsored Russian sci-fi movie called Nebo Zovyat- a breath-taking, prophetic vision of the Soviet Union's journey into space; in the disrespectful hands of opportunistic producer Roger Corman and a young and eager-to-please Francis Ford Coppola, what was once awe-inspiring becomes laughable, the pair badly dubbing and drastically re-editing the original two hour epic to a mere 64-minutes of clumsy space melodrama (albeit it with impressive effects), 'enhanced' by silly inserts of space monsters
Yet being exposed, even this changed version allows a great number of people to see the cinematic capabilities of that era. It’s far better to see it even if edited to not see it at all it will prompt people to look into films of this time. period from the Soviet union and that’s a good thing.
Come on, guys - it's nothing about Roger Corman, it is - definitely - the Soviet sci-fi movie "Nebo Zovet" ("The Sky Is Calling"), filmed in 1959 at Dovzhenko Studio under the direction of Alexander Kozyr and Michail Kriukov.
Did no one think of telling the Northern Hemis lads that they went in the wrong direction for Mars, since they found themselevs pulled in towards the sun? And what a feat that was for the Southern Hemis lads - heading for Mars, then going back towards the sun to collect the men in danger and then ending up on a rock orbiting Mars almost in touching distsnce of the red planet. No wonder they ran out of fuel!
Anyone who knows about a 50s or maybe 60s space exploration film like this where there is a giant snake? Saw it as a kid and have been looking everywhere on IMDB and here on youtube
I hate that! I remember a vampire movie with a woman crawling out of a coffin in a castle basement. I would love to find that! I imagine I saw it at a drive in maybe 60 years ago.
"Heading South Hemis' *top secret* project 'Red Planet' was Dr. Albert Gordon" - (Face+Palm) - What could they possibly be planning, surely there must be *some* sort of clue?
😊Michael Chambers: How about you? You still on Earth, or on the ship, with me? Well, it doesn't make very much difference because sooner or later we'll, all of us, be on the menu. All of us.
I have an idea to use helium weather balloon with parachutes to slow the descent and then jettison at altitude. Dr Dent astrophysicist Rocketeledyne owner.
Мда... еще один "шедевр свободного мира" ))) Я представляю, что бы случилось, если бы "Унесенные ветром" вышли в СССР как оригинальная работа Бондарчука или Герасимова, а Скарлетт превратилась в Дусю Иванову)))) Вся пресса взвыла бы: "Красные своровали наш фильм!".
I love this film but if for Cold War reasons they tried to make the audience believe it was an American film, then it is the first "US movie" with famous Soviet actors and young pioneers welcoming the space heroes ;-) A pity in those times the non-butchered movie wasn't shown to American audiences
Was ich nicht verstehe, warum nennt Ihr den deutschen Filmtitel wenn der Film doch in englischer Sprache ist. Jeder Film bis auf die paar deutschsprachigen sind so, also mich nervt das weil ich immer denke das der Film in deutsch ist. Ich hab den Kanal schon länger abonniert und die Filme sind auch gut, nur wenn die Filme auf englisch sind gib ihnen doch einfach ihren Originaltitel und jeder weiss woran er ist. Schönen Gruß Andi
1957 год - СССР запускает первый Спутник земли.... 1959 год - советский фильм 🎥 "Небо зовёт".... с которого снят американский вариант.... 1961 год - первый полёт человека - Юрий Гагарин
@@Sid-rus 1917 год - УНР 1918 год - Одесская советская республика 1918 год - Донецко - Криворожская республика 1918 год - как объявили УНР - входят Австрияки и Германцы .... которых выбил Щорс..... 1918 - 1919 гг - поляки оккупировали Галицию - ЗУНР.... 1920 г - Пилсутский с Петлюрой оккупировали Киев.... до 1921 г. Вывод : Украина может быть только под русским протекторатом..... Если отрекаются от русских - 2014 год - американцы приезжают на майдан..... Нуланд и прочие... и всё.... тю... тю..... Украина 2,0 редакции 2014 г - под 100 % протекторатом США и Запада...... опять.... Незалежности нет.... т.е - 0 - ноль А где американцы - там война....!!!!
Physics and logic be damned! Both space agencies require special rockets to get to Mars, yet a standard transport rocket loaded with fuel gets there and back no problem. You did notice that the transport rocket took off from Anchor, but it was Mercury landing on Earth? The Mercury rocket that had to be built and flown in space because it could not handle the aerodynamic forces of Earth's atmosphere. 🤔
Spiffing flick !. Before digital , effects are brilliant . Why Russian star on spaceship and red coloured suits ?. I was 7yrs. old in 59. Thanks dudes. Dave
"Why Russian star on spaceship and red coloured suits ?" - Because it's the Soviet movie "The Sky I Calling", filmed in 1959, and a bit edited and translated into English in 1962 by Corman.
I was rather impressed with the production quality of this film. And the dubbing into English was done fairly neatly. I understand that in translating and editing the film is not quite what the Soviet union initially produced. However, since this is the only version available in English that I know of it’s better to at least see, this beautiful film than to never see it at all
Roger Corman vs Ed Wood, Who wins? If there were such a contest I’d probably vote for Corman just on the strength of his Edgar Allan Poe films and The Little Shop of Horrors and some other films, plus being a mentor to such directors as Coppola, Scorsese and Peter Bogdanovich, not that one can’t still respect Plan 9 from Outer Space, Glen and Glenda, Bride of the Monster etc. They were both two unique film directors.
A few things I noticed: the announcer at the begging said " O 2100 hours" There is no O 2100 hours. The secret project was called "red planet". That is too obvious. There is only one red planet in our solar system, and I don't believe anyone was planning on going outside it.
Obviously don't know the way to Mars if they're being pulled into the sun. That's the fatal flaw in the movie lol. Unless they were heading to Mercury instead!
Ich bemerke es immer wieder, diese klassischen Scores, eingespielt von Sinfonieorchestern sind einfach unwiderstehlich und unverzichtbar für die stimmungsvolle Atmosphäre alter Filme. Verglichen mit heutigen oftmals nervig u. sinnentleerten Syntieschwaden ist seitdem doch einiges verloren gegangen.
You may have seen on RU-vid short vids of modern movies if they were made in the 50s. For instance the movies Star Wars or Alien if they were 1950s movies. This is frankly a complete movie in the style those vids are trying to emulate. Its amazing to see.
Indeed I have seen those weird little AI shorts too. Looks like it involves lots of funny hats and helmets and making the people in it appear 10 years older than their real movie counterparts.
Quite possibly the most boring movie I've ever attempted to watch. I dozed off once, towards the end, but made it to the end. I don't plan on goiong back to see what I missed.
I love these old SciFi movies. The dream of the future but they are a picture of their time when they have been produced. This movie has been influenced by the cold war after WWII and the wish for world peace.
Watching this film made by a Ukrainian studio and filmed with scenes from Crimea in light of the current there war is very ironic. I guess the message of peace the film brings was for naught.
Ok...A) Why is ANYONE on the landing platform with a ship coming in? B) Am I all confused or did they land on an asteroid that was in Mars orbit? And HOW did they get there so fast? And...READY! Recline!!!
Corman was a genius. I highly encourage all of you to read his very funny book, "How I made a 100 movies and never lost a dime." It's the only book I ever read cover to cover. Corman was an engineer and used simple solutions and logic to make films. Many stars you know and love started with him. A net worth of $200 million made from low budget "B" movies. Francis Ford Coppola worked on this film.
When dissonants still were shocking. Jesus, this is a medieval movie. Slow. Boring. Stupid. Made by hundreds of people who got paid and shut up, while knowing it was SHIT. Why do I even try watching it? What a waste of time.
La mayor estafa que vi hasta ahora en YT, subieron solo 32 min. de pelicula, en el anuncio decia "pelicula completa" 1 h. 10 m. Ya de por si me parecia extraño, ninguna pelicula argumental dura tan poco. ...... NO PIERDAN TIEMPO.......
