Comments on: The Phantom Planet (1961) [Colorized] https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2020/02/the-phantom-planet-1961-colorized/ The Cave of Forgotten Films Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:41:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Sean Ramsdell https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2020/02/the-phantom-planet-1961-colorized/#comment-71699 Sun, 06 Apr 2025 00:40:45 +0000 https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/?p=13707#comment-71699 As featured on MST3K which ends with the “good and beautiful” scene as the stinger.

HONEY BUNCHES OF DEATH!

]]> By: Lee Kaplan https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2020/02/the-phantom-planet-1961-colorized/#comment-52880 Mon, 10 Jun 2024 23:20:00 +0000 https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/?p=13707#comment-52880 Film has a stock music score which, IMO, makes the film seem richer than it really is — gives it a variously epic & dreamy flavor beyond its meager resources. Many symphonic cues were taken (bootlegged?) from a great 1958 re-performance of Leith Stevens’s seminal 1950 DESTINATION MOON score. Other cues — neat early electronic stuff — are the work of the eclectic British composer Desmond Leslie [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Leslie]. “In the early 1950s, [Leslie] designed the world’s first effective multi-track sound mixing desk which he had built by Rupert Neve. It can still be seen in his family home Castle Leslie, Monaghan, where it has been an object of reverence for visitors such as Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney.”

]]> By: John Phillips https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2020/02/the-phantom-planet-1961-colorized/#comment-52836 Mon, 10 Jun 2024 00:47:11 +0000 https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/?p=13707#comment-52836 I enjoyed watching this movie. It took me back to my childhood, and I like the colorization. John F. Phillips.

]]> By: Patrick Trimble https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2020/02/the-phantom-planet-1961-colorized/#comment-10259 Sat, 29 Feb 2020 20:35:25 +0000 https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/?p=13707#comment-10259 I saw this when it first appeared in 1961 and greatly disliked it. Seeing it again as an adult & in a colorized version allowed me to enjoy it more for its campiness and psychotronic silliness. I also think it is one of few examples I can think of which actually benefits from colorization. The film contains the lovely horror queen, Colleen Gray & the grey-haired legend of the screen, Francis X. Bushman (who played Ben Hur back in 1926), plus the ex-warbler, Dick Haynes in a non-singing role. There are reasons to watch THE PHANTOM PLANET, especially if you have a hard to explain nostalgic love affair with 1950’s & ’60’s cheesy science fiction films. While lead Dean Fredericks had a solid career in film & television, his character here is not very likeable.

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