Was the helicopter a Tardis?
The actual cockpit interior (when the cast is assembled together) looks a lot bigger than the dimensions of the outside.
In the case of this movie, it was more like a Re-Tardis.
shareHave to agree with that - hammy acting and effects. Not quite the terrifying film I remember as a kid.
shareAgreed. But sorry I couldn't i.d. the copter for you.
shareRetardis to me was when Irwin thought he could get away with cannibalizing all the footage from this film into a "Voyage To The Bottom of The Sea" episode (in which David Hedison implausibly changes clothes just to match the footage from TLW). Even in 1964, people were savvy enough to see what he was doing and the negative reaction was so bad they didn't repeat the episode!
shareOh, I think they repeated that episode. But IA re-used footage not only from his Fox films but others.
In one second-season episode of VTTBOTS they had a story written so they could cop tons of footage from The Enemy Below (1957), with David (then Al) Hedison, although I don't think he was in any of the borrowed footage. That same season, old Irwin stole the very plot of the film version of Voyage for "The Sky's On Fire" and careful observers will note that the model of the Seaview seen in the film's footage has double rows of windows at the bow, which was how the sub looked in the movie and the TV series's first season; beginning in season two, the sub was redesigned so that it had only one row of windows, and the command deck was on the same level as the bow windows instead of up the stairs. There are other examples.
Yes I'd noticed that - to be honest all of hs films and TV series became interchangeable. No doubt if Voyage was still being made in the 70's you'd have had a killer bees attacking the admiral and his crew borrowed from 'The Swarm'
shareIrwin was very big on using stock footage from his own and other Fox movies in his 60s TV shows, mainly Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and The Time Tunnel (but very little in Lost in Space or Land of the Giants, neither of which lent themselves much to such footage). He also reused sets, costumes, many of the same filming techniques and situations, and things like make-up, over and over. That was how he held down costs.
In fairness, when finally given the chance in the early 70s he splurged on The Poseidon Adventure and then his biggest one of all, The Towering Inferno. But his later films, while all original in content, were just terrible. Meantime he began raiding the stock locker again for his TV movies.
However, the idea of Admiral Nelson, Professor Challenger and the rest being attacked by "the swarm" is just too good. Maybe with the Seaview being struck by the S.S. Poseidon on its way to the bottom.
'Seaview being struck by the S.S. Poseidon on its way to the bottom'
Yes being hit Leslie Nielsen would mean that there would be a link to Forbidden Planet.
You may have already seen it - I have and made comments on it- but the pilot short 'The Man from the 25th Century' must be lower than 'The Swarm' and 'When Time ran out'. If I recall the latter had top notch actors trying to escape from a rear projected volcano. Terrifying.
In case you haven't seen it - here is the short pilot. I advise taking some tranquilizers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOUF8NuIK0w
As the man from the 25th century says 'The factor is Alpha 3 infinity over the Z spatial continuum' Perhaps he was referring to the Q.
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