Everything about the film "Planet Of Blood," written and directed by Curtis Harrington, is a real enigma from start to finish! First off, it's a low-budget film that looks fantastic. By today's standards, it had an all-star cast, young and old, including Basil Rathbone, John Saxon, Dennis Hopper and the man himself, Forrest J. Ackerman! The reason the space scenes looks so incredible is because they are cut out of a much larger budget, 1960 Soviet production entitled "Nebo Zovyot" or as it was released in the U.S., "Battle Beyond The Sun," you know the movie with the world famous scary vagina monster! Even the music and sound credits are weird, with Ron Stein masking as the space age Leonard Morand, and since this isn't exactly all music, you have to give a lot of credit to the sound department of Nelson-Corso too for their contributions to the overall soundscape. A fun movie to watch, but hard to find. The sound quality here is not that great as it was taken from an old VHS tape, but you will get the idea.
This is
the coolest picture of rockets!!!
You can thank "Nebo Zovyot" for this fantastic shot!!
Check it out! Their helmets are mini versions of.............
This super-nifty extraordinary spaceship!!
Dennis, send her back where she came from, you won't regret it!!
John really is not wanting to have anything to do with this whole deal!
Just another stunning shot!!
Of course, Forry, grinning like Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat gets in the last dig, thus setting up for a sequel that will never happen, but still, that's
one hip cat!!
This is one of those very strange, bizarre, sad, but probably not really surprising Hollywood stories. It's about Scotty Beckett, the singer of this song in the 1956 TV series movie, "Rocky Jones Space Ranger - Manhunt In Space." Scotty started out as a child actor in 1933, did his stint in the "Our Gang" comedy series, and died at 38 from a drug overdose, and that is only scratching the surface of his amazing saga.
Here we have Scotty as "Winky," singing this lullaby and playing some kind of futuristic lectronic space dulcimer. 
"Winky" looks happy enough, just shows to go you how great an actor Scotty really was! This sappy song preceded "The Mushroom Song" in "The Giant Gila Monster" by three years! 
The perfect look of the future, ball caps and t-shirts!!! 
Here's some of Scotty's dialogue with Rocky from the very beginning of the film, that pretty much stinks of reality when you look at his life story in retrospect, and is it really possible to walk around with your pants pulled up that high?
Scotty Beckett's story is just way to complex for me to really go into here in detail, so follow this link to read it for yourself. I personally guarantee you will not regret it, because it's Way, Way Weirdsville and almost unbelievable. We're talking stuff like, gunfights with Mexican Police just for starters!
Remember Spanky's little sidekick "Scotty?"
