Starring Hugh Marlowe, Nancy Gates, Nelson Leigh, Rod Taylor, Shawn Smith
Directed by Edward Bernds
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
Four astronauts and their spaceship are propelled 600 years into the future in a freak accident, and return to an Earth decimated by atomic war, forcing the civilized survivors to move underground.
The special effects are fairly weak, and the short skirted outfits the women are outfitted in rather sexist, but I still found this to be a fun example of 1950s sci-fi, with characters I cared about and a screenplay effectively filled with conflict. Battles between the astronauts and the one-eyed mutants on the surface are well-staged, and the film had something to say about humanity in its focus on the underground people, whose comfort with their settlement and technology was dooming them as a race. Familiar faces abound in the cast, including a young Rod Taylor, and the design of the underground settlement was believable if somewhat spartan. I enjoyed it and would recommend it, but it's far from the most distinguished sci-fi picture, which I didn't have a problem with.
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