![]() ![]() However, one crew member, Barry O'Sullivan (Ove Sprogøe), who had been holding an apple, discovers the dry, rotted remains in his hand. Awaking from their `trance,' the crew discovers that `two hours' has past. ![]() A similar scene is used, to much poorer effect, by Mario Bava in `Planet of the Vampires'. Anyway, as the spaceship enters orbit around Uranus, they are possessed by an alien entity, that threatens to control their minds in order to populate the earth with its slaves. Could Melchior be guilty of `sour grapes' because Sid Pink gets directing credit? Since this is a much better movie than two of Melchior's other efforts (`The Angry Red Planet' and `Reptilicus'), one can have legitimate suspicions. In his criticism of `Journey ', Melchior claims this `motive' was deleted but, there it is, plain as day, a message being read by John Agar. The searches have come up empty with the first five planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn), and our intrepid crew is about to land on Uranus, when they receive a message that Uranus is emitting a strange radiation. The earth, controlled by a world government, sends international space crews on a search for extraterrestrial life. However, `Journey ' is the first film I recall that used an entity whose most powerful weapon was our own desires and fears. It was also used again in `Twilight Zone,' `Outer Limits', most of the `Star Trek' franchises, and, regrettably, `Sphere'. It had been used both in `Forbidden Planet' and `Fiend Without a Face'. Certainly, the mind-matter plot wasn't new. I recently purchased `Journey ' and, I am happy to say, I haven't changed my original feelings about the film. Pretty strong language from the man that cowrote (with `Journey ' director Sidney Pink) and edited the movie. ![]() I thought it was pretty good, but it received atrocious reviews (`Another John Agar trash science fiction movie') Recently, when I read writer-editor-director Ib Melchior's comments in FILMFAX, he crucified the movie (`almost unreleasable). At that time, I saw `Journey ' sans opening and closing credits. I saw `Journey to the Seventh Planet' as the lower half of a double bill, with `X-15' (Does anyone remember THAT one?). ![]()
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