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| Laughing Gravy | Sep 18 2011, 10:25 AM Post #1 |
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In a film that was dated about a week after it was produced, a pair of space junk salvage experts are offered the opportunity to pick up some dough by helping a space gangster crash a small asteroid made of precious gems onto a remote area of the dark side of the moon. Meanwhile, they've also been chartered by the gorgeous sister of a lost moon miner to help her find her brother, who happens to have been last seen in the same area of the moon. Chaos ensues. Hilariously goofy film that combines serious, 2001-type sci-fi with dancing moon girls in a faux-Western saloon. James Olson (who he?) plays the Cap'n Kemp, irresistible to women although he's ugly, balding, and wears a skin-tight suit with a zipper from his anus to his adam's apple. The film opens with a "Mad, Mad World"-type cartoon and a ridiculously peppy theme song, and never regains its stride. The special effects range from good but unconvincing (the miniatures are nice, but won't fool anybody, and there's no stars in the sky whenever anyone's walking about the dark lunar surface) and the whole thing was billed as "the first Western in space!", whatever th' hell THAT means. One of the gangster's thugs looks like chubby Elvis, and is the funniest thing in the film. The girls are pretty; Catherine Schell just couldn't BE any cuter, and thankfully, she's the only babe in the film without a neon-bright colored wig on. It's a Hammer film, and the Warner DVD (pairing the film with When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth) is out of print and going for big bucks online, which makes me larf. LARF I say. |
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| JazzGuyy | Sep 18 2011, 11:43 AM Post #2 |
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Balcony Gang, Foist Class
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Warner just put this out in the Warner Archive collection. |
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| CliffClaven | Sep 18 2011, 03:45 PM Post #3 |
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Balcony Gang, Foist Class
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That double feature DVD was a Best Buy exclusive that didn't follow the Universal sci-fi & horror packages into general release. Also, the first pressing had the juicier cut of "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth", with a little topless cavegirl action (reportedly a "corrected" edition quickly replaced the first one on the shelves). Almost basic cable by modern standards, but probably brain-melting stuff to preteen boys back then. As for "Moon Zero Two," I vividly remember a scene of a skull in a space helmet -- and the skull was obviously a classroom model, with lines on it. |
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