THE PHANTOM PLANET (1961) ¢ ¢
D: William Marshall
Dean Fredericks, Coleen Gray, Francis X. Bushman,
Dolores Faith, Tony Dexter, Richard Kiel
An American astronaut lands his rocket ship on a wandering planet whose intense gravitational force field has reduced everybody to a height of about four inches. In most ways this is just a dopey, low-budget monster movie (with its own dopey-looking, low-budget monster). But throw in a little "Twilight Zone", a little "Gulliver's Travels", silent star Francis X. Bushman as the planet's stately ruler, and a couple of curvy, early-'60s space babes, and it's, you know, not too bad, for a dopey, low-budget monster movie.
Coleen Gray
(1922-2015)
