Women of the Prehistoric Planet

Women of the Prehistoric Planet
Credits
Title:	Women of the Prehistoric Planet
Director:	Arthur C. Pierce
Writers:	Arthur C. Pierce
Producers:	Madelynn Broder; Jack Broder; George Edwards
Composer:	Hans J. Salter; Leith Stevens
Cinematography:	Archie Dalzell
Editors:	George White
Production
Distributed by:	Realart Pictures
Released:	April 15th, 1966
Rating:	Unrated
Running time:	90 min.
Country:	USA
Language:	English
Budget:	Unknown
Gross:	Unknown
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Women of the Prehistoric Planet is an American science fiction film written and directed by Arthur C. Pierce. It was produced by Realart Pictures and released theatrically in the United States on April 15th, 1966. The film stars Wendell Corey, Keith Larsen, John Agar, Paul Gilbert, Merry Anders and Irene Tsu.

Plot

A spacefaring crew from an advanced civilization is preparing to return home after an extended voyage. The crew includes "humans" (represented in the film by Caucasian actors and actresses) and "Centaurians" (represented in the film by Asian actors and actresses). The Centaurians have been rescued from their home planet after a (self-inflicted) devastation and are being brought back with the spacefaring explorers with an expectation that they will be assimilated into their new parent culture. A theme of the film is acceptance between the "human" crew and their "Centaurian" guests.

One of the ships in the fleet is hijacked by a few of its Centaurian passengers and crash-lands on a prehistoric planet in the "Solaris" system. Countermanding HQ orders, the rest of the fleet returns to search for survivors after the crash. In the film's "twist", by the time that the rescuers (traveling at fast sublight speeds) are able to return to the planet, they are encountering the descendants of the original crash survivors - explained in a simplified version of time dilation. Linda, a Centaurian from the rescue ship, falls in love with Tang after he saves her from drowning. After fighting with the planet's indigenous species ('60s era special effects including giant iguanas meant to represent dinosaurs), Tang and Linda are marooned on the prehistoric planet - the latter revealed to be the captain's own daughter. In the film's coda, this savage and primitive planet is revealed to be the Earth.

Cast

Actor	Role
Wendell Corey	Admiral David King
Keith Larsen	Commander Scott
John Agar	Doctor Farrell
Paul Gilbert	Lieutenant Red Bradley
Merry Anders	Lieutenant Karen Lamont
Irene Tsu	Linda
Roberto Ito	Tang
Stuart Margolin	Chief
Todd Laswell	Lieutenant Charles Anderson
Kam Tong	Jung
Ron Stokes	Sergeant Allen
Adam Roarke	Harris
Paul Hampton	Wilson
Ron Lyon	Sergeant Nevins
Sally Frei	Sally
Suzie Kaye	Ensign Stevens
Hans Wedemeyer	Jang
Glenn Langan	Captain Ross
Lee Anthony	Navigation officer
Joyce Carol	Centaurian girl on ship
Jamie McRae	Sergeant Long
Joanna Miya	Zenda, Tang's mother

Notes & Trivia

• Alternatively known as Prehistoric Planet Women.

• The tagline for this film is "It's the battle of the sexes as savage planet women attack female space invaders!"

• Women of the Prehistoric Planet was lampooned in episode 2x13 of Mystery Science Theater 3000.

• Stock audio samples were used for the film score of this movie. The original composers were Hans J. Salter and Leith Stevens, whose work was used in many films from this era. The score was edited by Igo Kantor and Del White.

Film firsts

• First credited directorial film work for Arthur C. Pierce. He previously co-directed The Human Duplicators and Mutiny in Outer Space, but was only credited for writing the screenplays for those films.

• First sci-fi work for actor Adam Roarke.

• First sci-fi work for actor Paul Hampton.

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External Links

• Women of the Prehistoric Planet at AMG
• Women of the Prehistoric Planet at TCM
• Women of the Prehistoric Planet at IMDB
• Women of the Prehistoric Planet at Wikipedia