Assignment: Outer Space

August. 25,1960      
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Interplanetary News reporter Ray Peterson is assigned aboard a space station in the 21st Century.

Rik Van Nutter as  Ray Peterson (IZ41)
Gabriella Farinon as  Lucy (Y13)
Archie Savage as  Al (X15)
Franco Fantasia as  Sullivan
Aldo Pini as  Jacson

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Reviews

Hellen
1960/08/25

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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SpuffyWeb
1960/08/26

Sadly Over-hyped

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Listonixio
1960/08/27

Fresh and Exciting

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Curt
1960/08/28

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

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arfdawg-1
1960/08/29

This movie is not as bad as some of the reviews suggest.It's made on a shoestring budget but still pretty neat.The special effects are better than you'd expect considering and it keeps your attention.The plot.In the 21st century.Ray Peterson, reporter for the Interplanetary News, is assigned to write a story aboard a space station. Tension mounts between Peterson and the station commander, who believes he is in the way, but has orders to leave him alone. Errant spaceship Alpha Two enters the solar system and its photon generators are radiating enough heat to destroy Earth as it approaches. It falls to Peterson to try to figure out a way to enter the spaceship, disarm the generators, and escape before suffocating.

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bkoganbing
1960/08/30

Space Men finds Rik Van Nutter on an assignment for the Interplanetary News in earth year 2116 on a space ship with a secret mission. They are charged with saving the earth itself from running into another runaway space ship that's spitting out radioactive heat. If it collides with the earth or even assumes orbit around it the results could be fatal for all life on earth.This ship is really run on a business like basis by Captain David Montresor and his ship has nothing on the Borg, his entire crew is referred to by number. But he's not all business, in the middle of this mission Montresor takes time to notice Gabriella Farinon especially after Van Nutter saves her life. These two start squaring off in heat over Farinon who fills out those space suits real nice. But as is usual in triangles they'll be an odd one out. You'll have to watch this rather cheaply made Italian science fiction epic to find out just who.

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linwood45
1960/08/31

This movie isn't half bad. At first glance, you think it's just another cheesy, sci-fi B-movie. Outside of some technical blunders (things done outside the parameters of reality) it's pretty good. Al is a very interesting character. I think a remake of this movie wouldn't be a bad idea. Steven Spielberg once said, "An audience will believe even the most far fetched fantasy if it's done seriously and with a lot of credibility". So given the right cast, and a good rewrite of the original screenplay this could make a good, modern day sci-fi. I'd even go as far as purchasing a remastered version if such care were given to preserve it.

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polsixe
1960/09/01

OK, bad FX but given it was 1960 don't be too harsh in that judgment. Not having seen all SF films from that era it's hard to say whether it was below standard or not. Star Trek didn't get so much better by 1967, substituting flashing lights for analog gauges and completely rewriting/ignoring physics. I liked some of the techno babble here - the multi-stage rocket, the sleep chamber, the arched trusses inside the space station, weightlessness, hydrazine, the paramilitary dialogue. Tossing objects out to detect the beams and stay in the middle seems reasonable and inventive for a mere reporter. "Pecking the lobe" is an electronic way to do the same thing against enemy radar in modern warfare. There was a story here but things got compromised, as usual in movies time and space (ie distances), are ignored in order to cut to the chase (see Armageddon, 1997). The guy waxing philosophical during his space walk has been done in almost every space movie since, and even Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, et al spoke that way once on earth. Anyhow, good for a laugh.

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