This little oddity has a story that isn’t really relevant to it, but it’s amusing: Roger Corman bought the rights to a Russian early ’60s sci-fi film, had Peter Bogdanovich shoot some scenes of blond woman cavorting on a rocky, storm-tossed Los Angeles beach because the studo demanded “girls” to release the film, they added voice-over narration to make a story out of it, and Bob’s yer uncle, they had a movie.
Not only that, but this was the second time Corman did this… with the same Russian film. Same footage and everything.
Anyway, this Russian flick apparently had all the ambition and none of the budget. If you want to see fun early ’60s footage of astronauts and mermaids cavorting around rocky landscapes that are supposed through smoke machines running at full blast, I dunno, it’s actually kind of fun, for a movie that never, ever shoots higher than being absolutely terrible.
