The Terrornauts

The Terrornauts is a 1967 science fiction film produced by Amicus Productions. It went out on a double bill with They Came from Beyond Space. This double bill has been called the two worst films the company ever produced. The film is based on The Wailing Asteroid by Murray Leinster, adapted for screen by John Brunner.

Upon arrival at the asteroid, the team is greeted by a robot that takes them through a series of tests. After each test, they are provided with rewards such as food for the intelligence test, a weapon for the motivation test and a Knowledge Cube for the knowledge test. After a tour of a control room, they are then brought to a chamber with a small platform and a figure in a chair, who simply happens to be the long dead caretaker of the base. As they head back to the control room, Ben bumps Sandy onto the platform and she is transposed in a puff of smoke to a distant planet peopled by savages who try to kill her. Dr. Burke then follows Sandy to the planet armed with the gun and effects a rescue before she is killed discovering the secret of the Knowledge Cubes in the process. Dr. Burke plugs in to the cube, and the horrible secret is revealed, the planet of savages is the home of the survivors of an interstellar war that is fast approaching Earth, and the Star Talk team are the only ones who can use the advanced weapons of the installation to stop an invading enemy fleet from destroying Planet Earth. The team searches frantically through the huge library of cubes for the instructions to use the weapons of the fort but are unsuccessful. As the enemy fleet comes into range, the robot delivers the cubes needed just in time. The battle is joined but the Star Talk team has a hard time hitting the aliens with missiles so with the cubes instruction, the fortresss engines are started and they rise off the asteroid to intercept the aliens, who nearing defeat, then crash into the fortress. Dr. Burke sets the Transposer plates for Earth and the Star Talk team, Mr. Yellowlees and Mrs. Jones are transposed to the very archaeological dig in France where Dr. Burks father found the cube so long ago. While they congratulate one another on their luck, a French Gendarme Andr Maranne arrives just in time to arrest them for trespassing.

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