Last night I was setting up DirecTV for future recording of a TV show, when in the results block there turned up a movie that I saw on the old Ghoulardi TV show out of Cleveland when I was a little boy. The movie was "Queen of Outer Space" starring Zsa Zsa Gabor and Eric Fleming (the trail boss on "Rawhide"). And even though I had it on VHS, I decided that it would be worthwhile to see how the movie would look on a big screen TV with all the technical advances that have been made. So I recorded it and proceeded to watch the movie.
The premise of the movie was that American astronauts had their rocket ship pulled off course to the planet Venus, where the only inhabitants were women, the men having been exiled to a prison satellite after a devastating war. One thing I noticed immediately was that the costume budget must have been a little light, probably something I didn't appreciate when I was 9 years old.
But since this a gun forum, I have to make mention of the firearms in the film. The military astronauts were carrying sidearms, and what were they? Probably the most futuristic looking real firearms in existence at the time (1958), Model 1896 Broomhandle Mausers covered in gold paint. Here was a science fiction movie about interplanetary space flight, and the astronauts were carrying prop guns based on a handgun developed before the age of manned powered flight.
The premise of the movie was that American astronauts had their rocket ship pulled off course to the planet Venus, where the only inhabitants were women, the men having been exiled to a prison satellite after a devastating war. One thing I noticed immediately was that the costume budget must have been a little light, probably something I didn't appreciate when I was 9 years old.
But since this a gun forum, I have to make mention of the firearms in the film. The military astronauts were carrying sidearms, and what were they? Probably the most futuristic looking real firearms in existence at the time (1958), Model 1896 Broomhandle Mausers covered in gold paint. Here was a science fiction movie about interplanetary space flight, and the astronauts were carrying prop guns based on a handgun developed before the age of manned powered flight.
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