Cosmos: War of the Planets

Cosmos War of the Planets also released in Europe as Year Zero War In Space is a 1978 Italian film directed by Alfonso Brescia and starring John Richardson. It is considered a remake of the 1965 film Planet of the Vampires. It was also released as War of the Planets not to be confused with the 1965 Antonio Margheriti film of that name, and also as Cosmo 2000, as well as Cosmo Planet Without a Name. The movie has been made public domain and may be freely found and distributed.

The film begins with the crew of a spaceship seeing explosions in space and asteroids flying by. They are afraid that they are going to be hit, but their ships computer, named Wiz, tells them that they were seeing the refraction of an event that took place millions of years ago. Overjoyed, the ships crew hug and kiss each other.Next follows a scene within the Orion space complex whose introduction includes stock footage of the Japanese space launch center of Captain Mike Hamiltons slapping a fellow officer. Soon he is called to report on this behavior to the base commander. He says that the other officer did not give him a command personally, but told him to follow the directions of a computer. Hamiltons attitude against such machines is one of the few themes of the story. ........

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