Masters of Venus

Masters of Venus (1962)

A spaceship from Earth lands on the planet Venus, and encounters a race of beings that the crew begins to suspect are descended from the lost city of Atlantis.

Date of release
1962-09-07
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 52m
Genres
Science Fiction
Director
Ernest Morris

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Pinewood Studios

Masters of Venus is a 1962 British science fiction black-and-white film serial directed by Ernest Morris and starring Norman Wooland, Mandy Harper, and Robin Stewart. It was produced by A. Frank Bundy for the Children's Film Foundation and distributed as a weekly serial in eight 16-minute parts, each of which ends on a cliffhanger, for Saturday morning cinema clubs. The complete serial has a running time of 133 minutes.

Production

One of the regular characters, the Venusian girl Marla, was played by the 16-year-old Zienia Merton, who later in her career would appear in Doctor Who ("Marco Polo", 1964) and in Space:1999 (1975–1977).

There were two types of Venusians, a group of five-fingered ones and a group of six-fingered ones. Actors playing the latter had to wear gloves to simulate 6 fingers, and as a pair could not be found small enough for Zienia, she recalls the director telling her to "keep my hands clasped and not to point at anything."

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