Director "Derek Thomas" is actually Peter Bogdanovich. The footage of the astronauts is actually from a Russian sci-fi film, Planeta Bur (1962). This is actually a re-edited version of a film previously released in the U.S. as Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965), which itself was an edited and dubbed version of the Soviet film Planeta Bur (1962). For this version the already dubbed Russian footage was re-used but the American insert shots of Basil Rathbone and Faith Domergue w ...[Read Story ]