War of the Planets (1966)

Original title

I diafanoidi vengono da Marte

Directed by

Antonio Margheriti

Genre

science fiction film, adventure film

Country

Italy

Runtime

1h 31m

Rated

16

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 14 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Aliens from Mars attack Earth. A team of astronauts fights back with vintage 1960s technology.

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What happens

War of the Planets (Italian: I Diafanoidi Vengono da Marte, lit. 'The Diaphanoids Come From Mars' is a 1966 Italian science fiction film, produced by Joseph Fryd and Antonio Margheriti, directed by Margheriti, that stars Tony Russel and Lisa Gastoni (Russel's name is misspelled in the opening credits as "Tony Russell"). The film was released theatrically in 1966 throughout Europe. Its storyline and screenplay were written by Ivan Reiner and Renato Moretti. This is the second film in the Gamma-One series and follows Wild, Wild Planet (a.k.a. I Criminali della Galassia ("Criminals of the Galaxy")) and precedes War Between the Planets (a.k.a. Il Pianeta Errante ("Planet on the Prowl")) and Snow Devils (a.k.a. La Morte Viene dal Pianeta Aytin ("Death Comes From The Planet Aytin")). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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