When the astronauts go out of their spaceship to make a repair, they are untethered by any restraint and freely walk on the spacecraft's wing, in defiance of the laws of physics.
When Capt.
Chapman first enters the scene in the beginning of the movie, he looks at his wrist to check the time - but he is not wearing a watch.
After arriving on the asteroid, Captain Chapman shrinks in size, while his clothes did not.
The Captain fights with the other small people.
You can briefly see his shorts in the fight scene inside the space suit.
We watched this last night and were pleasantly surprised. The picture quality was clean and crisp (unusual for this type of film on Amazon Prime) and apart from the unconvincing skin tones, the colour process was used carefully, giving us some very realistic effects.
Luckily, Jonathan Swift was long dead when this "Lilliput-in-space" effort arrived on the scene and he would, I think, be eternally grateful! Dean Fredericks is the beefcake astronaut sent to investigate after the crash of a spaceship into a meteorite.
There seemed to be a lot of dodgy thinking going on, considering this was space exploration. For instance, spaceships going along a certain route keep on mysteriously disappearing, and the man in charge simply decides to send one more ship at a time, along the same route.
Like many of these oldies I chose this purely based on the absolutely epic title. After that I then followed up with a touch of research into the plot and looked at some images on Google.
I must admit that I did not watched an old Sci-Fi movie since long time, so, maybe I'm not what they call an expert in classical movies. I am the child of my times, so I'm used with the new wave of Sci-Fi movies, full of action and special effects.
After an invisible asteroid draws an astronaut (Dean Fredericks) and his ship to its surface, he is miniaturized by the phantom planet's exotic atmosphere.The most notable thing about this film is that it features the debut of Richard Kiel.
I rather enjoyed this amazingly daft sci-fi film. There's just something about hokey effects, pseudo-science, astronauts recording their thoughts on cassette and the brain scratching physics on display.
I like old sci-fi movies, even the bad ones...you can usually find someway of extracting some fun, either genuinely or due to how bad they are.
1961's "The Phantom Planet" was unleashed on a double bill with the Italian "Assignment: Outer Space," agreeably watchable considering its miniscule budget. The year is 1980 and the titular asteroid is called 'Rheton' (spelling optional), undetected by any of Earth's instruments and thus hidden from the naked eye, more of a fast moving ship than an actual planet, able to maneuver on its own by altering gravity.
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