Doomsday Machine (1972)
1972 · Feature film · 82 min · dir. Harry Hope
See! The Earth Destroyed In A Nuclear Holocaust!
- Science Fiction
Synopsis
The Chinese have developed a doomsday device and the U.S. fears the will use it. A manned mission to Venus is stepped up. At the last minute three of the male crew are replaced with three female crew members. Once they are on there way to Venus the reason becomes apparent. Mystic Nights Videos
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Details
- Director
- Harry Hope
- Writer
- Stuart J. Byrne
- Cinematography
- Stanley Cortez
- Studio
- First Leisure
- Released
- 1972-01-01
- Running time
- 82 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Sci-Fi & Horror, Feature Films
- Internet Archive item
- DoomsdayMachine1972
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Bobby Van
- Ruta Lee
- Mala Powers
- James Craig
- Grant Williams
- Henry Wilcoxon
- Lori Scott
- Doomsday
- Armageddon
Cast & crew
Harry Hope Director
Bobby Van
Ruta Lee
Mala Powers
James Craig
Grant Williams
Henry Wilcoxon
Essie Lin Chia
Casey Kasem
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · me likey space muffins · splue · 2011-05-06
BREAKFAST MUFFINS 1 egg 1 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons sugar 1 heaping teaspoon baking 1 cup sweet milk powder 1^ cups flour Butter size of a walnut Sift the dry ingredients together and add the beaten egg in milk and the melted butter; place in well greased muffin pans and bake fifteen minutes in a quick oven.
★★★★ · Note bad at all! · Albert Schlef · 2010-11-02
This movie is not bad. Quite good, actually. I was expecting it to be one of them bad sci-fi movies from the '70s, but this one is watchable!
★★★ · Don't call me comrade! · manhog · 2011-05-04
This movie has it all! Scary dialogue! One of the guys from M*A*S*H! Lots of interesting announcements over a variety of public address systems! Physical examinations! Gravity-defying sandwiches! "Home-made" water! Space misogyny! Actually, it's not that good. But! At least watch the first five minutes for the scene where the undercover super spy throws a cat over a wall. Classic cinema!
★★★ · Project Finished by Another Filmmaker · Mystic550 · 2010-11-03
You're right Skybandit, it is basically 2 movies. According to a review at IMDb the project was started in 1967 under the title "Armageddon 1975". The project was scraped, shelved and never finished. Around 1972 an amateur film maker got the film and added about the last 10 minutes.
★★★ · This is a Clunker for the ages · Brent Hale720 · 2026-09-24
For those who appreciate the fact that someone scraped together some cash, had a dream to make a movie, this is a c Classic Clunker leaning a little more to the Clunker end. Yes it was cobbled or slapped together and utilizes a Toho movie in a clumsy way, but I appreciate the very fact it was made. Bad film? Yes. But not so bad the effort has to be disrespected or laughed at. 3 stars for overall effort and the clumsiness of the attempt.
★★ · Amazing Mess of stock shots. · drbotanus · 2012-07-03
It appears that a couple of days were shot on this film before they ran out of money. Thats an old story in Hollywood, but, luckily for us all, it was picked up by David L. Hewitt and cobbled together with real NASA footage, special effects from Hewitt's Wizard of Mars and, incredibly, tons of stock spaceship shots from Toho's Gorath! Characters are traveling in a spacecraft unaware that the Earth is facing imminent doom and then only to find that the planet they have been chosen to settle and "start over" will make human's sterile from radiation poisoning. The sets are dreadful. The lighting…









