First Spaceship on Venus Movie Review

Eight international scientists set foot on Venus, but what they find is as downbeat as it was a decade earlier on Mars in Rocketship X-M, which showed structures of a dead civilization standing silent as blind Martians staggered about. The cause: atomic war, but here the nukes have also done in the natives; the only identifiable life form is a gray organic ooze that spurts out with such menacing force that the entire Earth expedition retreats and goes home. Pic is worth one viewing just to drink in the bizarre architecture of the Venusian ruins. It's like being caught in a Yves Tanguy painting; elongated, twisted, curvy shapes cast forth by alien minds who knew different laws of time and space. Antinuke sci-fi effort was made with German and Polish backing and originally released at 130 minutes. AKA: Der Schweigende Stern; Milczaca Gwiazda.

1960 78m/C GE PL Yoko Tani, Oldrich Lukes, Ignacy Machowski, Julius Ongewe, Michal Postnikow, Kurt Rack-elmann, Gunther Simon, Tang-Hua-Ta, Lucyna Winnicka; D: Kurt Maetzig; W: Jan Fethke, Wolfgang Kohlaase, Guen-ther Reisch, Guenther Ruecker; C: Joachim Hasler. VHS, Beta NOS, MRV, SNC