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The Phantom Planet is a american film of genre Science fiction directed by William Horace Marshall released in USA on 13 december 1961 with Dean Fredericks

The Phantom Planet (1961)

The Phantom Planet
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Released in USA 13 december 1961
Length 1h22
OriginUSA
Rating38% 1.9076951.9076951.9076951.9076951.907695

The Phantom Planet is a 1961 black and white science fiction film directed by William Marshall. American International Pictures released it as a double feature with Assignment Outer Space.

Synopsis

In the future world of 1980 the United States Air Force's Space Exploration Wing has bases on the moon and is on the eve of a mission to Mars. When yet another of their Pegasus spacecraft with its two-member crew mysteriously disappears leading to rumors among the ranks of "space monsters" and "phantom planets", Mars mission pilot Captain Frank Chapman and his navigator Lt. Ray Makonnen are sent to investigate in their own Pegasus craft.

Actors

Dean Fredericks

(Captain Frank Chapman)Coleen Gray

(Liara)Francis X. Bushman

(Sessom)Anthony Dexter

(Herron)Dick Haynes

(Col. Lansfield)
And :
Dolores Faith
Mike Marshall
Richard Kiel
Jimmy Weldon
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