The Phantom Planet (1961)

Directed by

William Marshall

Genre

science fiction film, monster film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 22m

Rated

NR

Rating

4.0 of 10 from 72 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An astronaut crash-lands on a small asteroid inhabited by tiny people. He is shrunk to their size and gets caught up in their battle against a monstrous alien.

datedlow-budgetcampysillyfunadventurousspacey

What happens

The Phantom Planet is a 1961 independently made American black-and-white science fiction film produced by Fred Gebhardt, directed by William Marshall, and starring Dean Fredericks, Coleen Gray, Anthony Dexter, and Francis X. Bushman. It was the first credited appearance of Richard Kiel, although he is not identifiable in the masked monster costume used for the film. The Phantom Planet was released on December 13, 1961 in the U.S. by American International Pictures as a double feature with Assignment Outer Space (1960). The film was featured on the television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 as episode #902. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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