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Antonio MargheritiAssignment Outer Space (1960)

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In the 21st century Ray Peterson, reporter for the Interplanetary News, is assigned to write a story aboard a space station. Tension mounts between Peterson and the station commander, who believes he is in the way, but has orders to leave him alone. Errant spaceship Alpha Two enters the solar system and its photon generators are radiating enough heat to destroy Earth as it approaches. It falls to Peterson to try to figure out a way to enter the spaceship, disarm the generators, and escape before suffocating.


This movie is part of the collection: Feature Films

Director: Antonio Margheriti
Producer: Samuel Z. Arkoff
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Language: english
Keywords: Sci-Fi

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: Vance Capley - - September 29, 2008
Subject: Assignment Outer Space Soap Opera?
This was (WAS)a fine film for its time. It doesn't hold up too well today.
If there is anyway to blot out all sci-fi movies after 1962, you might be able to enjoy this.
Or if you drink a case of Mountain Dew....

Only when you have nothing else to do give this slow moving space soap opera a chance.

Reviewer: Dr. Morbius - - January 13, 2008
Subject: An interesting perspective on space travel...
This movie is very watchable if you put it in the proper flavor. Apparently it was a space opera, set far in the future, about a rogue spaceship coming back to burn up the surface of the earth with it's radiation field. The fun part is that even though today this movie is far in the future, they are using rocket ships with chemically fueled engines to travel great distances. Must be really big fuel tanks! By this time, I would think we would have better propulsion! But, it is fun to watch, the plot is good and the characters interact well. Download quality is very good, although the color is a little faded. Enjoy!

Reviewer: beirwer - - March 22, 2007
Subject: Doggie doo.
I couldn't even watch this reeker all the way through. I got about 2/3's and had the nods so bad I just erased it.
I can watch some pretty bad stuff and find *some* level to enjoy it on, but this wasn't any good at all. It's not so bad it's good, or fun, or funny. It was just a dry, boring waste of time.

Reviewer: Robin White - - March 21, 2007
Subject: Watch this movie in the context of the times in which it was made
This movie was made in the end of the 1950's and has release date of 1960. It was probably a very low budget movie. We have become used to very fancy special effects that did not exist at that time. There was an attempt to address social issues: the crew had an African American and a Woman in it. These were more naive times when technology was thought to be the answer to nearly every problem of the future. Don't we still believe that falsehood? Look at this movie as a social document of it's times and it becomes very interesting. The editing is quite good and the acting is good enough not to be laughable. Give it a try.

Reviewer: terracesider - - January 10, 2007
Subject: Earth in danger, again..
It probably had its moments but I cannot remember any of them. This is definitely one for lovers on so-bad-they-are-genius films.

Reviewer: billbarstad - - December 19, 2006
Subject: Good for laughs
Ooo, this is a stinker and it's fairly typical of the sci-fi films I saw as a kid. But if you enjoy laughing at and mocking really bad dialog in an impossibly silly space opera, this can be fun.

A reporter is sent on assignment to a satellite in orbit beyond the moon. Soon he is embroiled in a mission to save the Earth from a malfunctioned space ship that will destroy all life. Can the Earth be saved??

I downloaded the mpeg1 file. The color seems washed out, but the video is otherwise OK. The audio is good.

Reviewer: jimelena - - December 13, 2006
Subject: Outer space; not far enough
Can't they send this movie farther away than mere outer space?
But it's in color, probably a bad idea.
It would be more campy in black and white.
The narrater explains why they don't have special effects, but now why he over explains every little detail of the movie.
Don't bother unless bad movies are your thing.