Sci-Fi Film Fiesta, The Swingin' 60s - Volume 6: Spaced Out Magic Carpet Rides by Chris Christopoulos - HTML preview
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Don Eitner as Tony Barrata
Forrest J. Ackerman as Farraday's aide
An alien species from another planet signals Earth to make
formal contact with humanity.
The alien spaceship crashes on Mars.
A distress transmission is sent to Earth.
Earth dispatches a ship to attempt a rescue.
On Mars, the alien spacecraft is located.
Only a single dead alien humanoid is found aboard the ship.
An alien rescue shuttle had left Mars but crashed on the
moon, Phobos.
A green-skinned alien female is found alive aboard the
wrecked shuttle.
For the rescue mission’s crew, their troubles are only just
about to begin!
(Spoilers follow below…..)
The movie opens with title and credits shown over watercolour paintings by John Cline, consisting of alien and other-worldly landscapes and images.
A narrator tells us:
"The year 1990, the problem of travelling to the moon has been solved
for many years. Space stations have been built there and authorised
personnel come and go as they wish, but the moon is a dead world. And
the great question about space still remains, does life exist on another
planet? To seek an answer to this question, the major powers of the
