World Without End - I'm always getting Hugh Marlowe and Richard Carlson confused. Marlowe stars along with Rod Taylor in this lightweight 1956 sci-fi as astronauts mapping the surface of Mars. To clarify, Marlowe is probably best known for playing Patricia Neal's boyfriend in The Day the Earth Stood Still and for Earth vs. the Flying Saucers. Carlson was in Creature from the Black Lagoon (along with ... wait for it ... Whit Bissell!) and It Came from Outer Space.
Anyway, on the way back to Earth the four man crew is caught in a time warp. You can tell because there are 4th of July sparklers and the model ship wiggles around like it’s suspended on wires. Probably because it is. They land on a planet that looks remarkably like Earth, because it is Earth. Or rather a future earth with Cyclopean cavemen types who take an immediate dislike to the newly arrived visitors. The crew takes shelter in a cave where they discover another civilization living underground. It apparently consists of super models in cocktail dresses and stilettos while the men run around in tights and shiny skullcaps. The statuesque women go crazy over the supposedly virile newcomers because their males are weak and can’t kill spiders or something. This is silly nonsense even by 50’s standards and is maybe targeted at adolescent boys. Watch it just to be able to say you did. 60/100
Anyway, on the way back to Earth the four man crew is caught in a time warp. You can tell because there are 4th of July sparklers and the model ship wiggles around like it’s suspended on wires. Probably because it is. They land on a planet that looks remarkably like Earth, because it is Earth. Or rather a future earth with Cyclopean cavemen types who take an immediate dislike to the newly arrived visitors. The crew takes shelter in a cave where they discover another civilization living underground. It apparently consists of super models in cocktail dresses and stilettos while the men run around in tights and shiny skullcaps. The statuesque women go crazy over the supposedly virile newcomers because their males are weak and can’t kill spiders or something. This is silly nonsense even by 50’s standards and is maybe targeted at adolescent boys. Watch it just to be able to say you did. 60/100