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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0014381870923
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Crown International Pictures
Manufacturer: Crown International Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Crown International Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 19, 2000
Running Time: 78 minutes
Sales Rank: 74894
Studio: Crown International Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: October 31, 1962
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
In a utopian future of universal peace and brotherhood--1985 to be specific--a mysterious artifact found in Siberia is discovered to be a message from Venus. While the recording is studied, an international team of scientists is rocketed off to make contact with the mysterious planet. It takes the film some time to get going (worldwide harmony makes for a beautiful future but pallid drama when everyone gets along so nicely), but things begin to cook once they land on the misty wasteland of Venus. Swarms of metal bugs hop from glassy mutant trees and bubbling black mud oozes after our astronaut heroes, but no Venusians can be found amidst the geodesic architecture and buzzing power plants. What they discover instead is a terrifying conspiracy wrapped in an anti-war parable. Based on a novel by Polish science fiction legend Stanislaw Lem (whose work also inspired Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris), this German science fiction adventure is a visual treat, from the sleek, grand, silver spaceship and a funky purple Venus landscape of alien ruins and crystalline bubbles. Decently (if prosaically) dubbed and trimmed down to a brisk 78 minutes, it's an entertaining triumph of psychedelic art direction and desolate alien weirdness presented in all its brightly colored, widescreen glory. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Venus God of War?
First Spaceship on Venus There's something enjoyably unique about Japanese Sci Fi that's hard to identify. It shows in the early Godzilla and Mothra films, then there's Gamera that hot blooded turtle. Then there's the brilliant Mysterions and Battle in Outer Space. More recently it shows in their best Anime films like the quite intelligent android naval gazing in the Ghost in the Shell series (Star Trek's Data with soul).
The Brits? Well they make intelligent, clever if talky Sci Fis ... Read More
Rating:  - Vhs Quality Dvd disc.
The movie was a good entertaining movie when I was a kid. This dvd product looks like a 1985 vhs quality tape. It is of extremely poor quality. The movie is a decent and intelligent movie. I am sending the dvd? Back.
Rating:  - first spaceship on venus
i hope i got this movie right i liked it alot at first it seems to be made by foreign type and has some asian person, black person and whites in it, it like star trek thing which i like. it has touch of what venus must of or could of been like and it could be what another palnet is like somewere in our galaxy. if like older stuff this is another winner, the polish guy smart to who did this movie. i think there a robot whois real short. if your IQ is above 150 you will understand some of it better and ... Read More
Rating:  - two versions of this film available
There are two different versions of this film available from Amazon: FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS from Image Entertainment/The Wade Williams Collection (letterboxed 2.35:1, 78 minutes) and SILENT STAR from First Run Features (non-letterboxed full-screen 1.33:1, 95 minutes.) Too bad there isn't a 95-minute letterboxed version!
I own only the Image Entertainment disc. The image transfer is pretty good, though it's not a restored print. The package mentions that it was shot in Technicolor, which ... Read More
Rating: - This is the cut version
There have been a few comments on whether or not this is the cut version. I'm not sure how Amazon associates reviews with titles but comments on the DEFA version shouldn't apply to this DVD which is a St Clair Vision release. The St Clair Vision release is the 80 minute version, not a 130 minute version, despite what the DVD box says and despite what Amazon says. Amazon should correct their information and give some grief to the distributor. I'm returning the DVD as I already have the shorter version ... Read More
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