Space Probe Taurus
Space Probe Taurus
| 01 January 1965 (USA)
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In the year 2000, the spaceship Hope One sets off to find new galaxies for colonization. However, an encounter with an alien being and a swarm of meteorites sends the ship streaking off course into a sea of monsters on an uncharted world.

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Hellen

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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BlazeLime

Strong and Moving!

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Tedfoldol

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

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FrogGlace

In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

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MartinHafer

Leonard Katzman--AIP previous ship contacts earth--demanding they detonate the ship remotely--why didn't they ask for clarification? ha, ha--women are stupid find UFO in space--just floating there--board and shoot alien yr 2000 blown off course by meteors--land underwater constant sexual harassment these are the BEST astronauts? silly crabs scuba battles"Space Probe Taurus" is about what you'd expect from a pre-"2001" sci-fi film--with the standard rocket ship, typical clichés and a sexy crew member to be sexually harassed. When the film begins, an Earth rocket is in trouble and radios instantly back to the based to press the self-destruct button. Why? Who knows. All you know is moments later, another rocket is being sent into space and it has four crew members--and one's a hot lady who spends most of her time fending off unwanted sexual advances from two of the men.Now here is the only part that IS unusual. They come upon a ship in space...just floating there. So, they do what any normal crew of astronauts would do...enter this ship, get into a brief fight with an alien and shoot him and then blow up the ship to hide the evidence!!! This was so weird and confusing...and, oddly, it seemed to happen in a vacuum. Soon after, they are almost destroyed by meteors and are knocked off course--and are forced to land on a rogue moon. But, they unfortunately land under water! What's next? Well, it involves a bit of scuba and more contact with aliens as well as giant crabs (yes, they spared no expenses here!).So is it any good? Well, it's at least not terrible. For fans of the genre it's what you'd expect and not a lot more.By the way, if you DO see the film, the alien who is murdered can be seen in the film clips Disney shows in their Sci-Fi Dine-In restaurant at Hollywood Studios at Disney World.

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Hitchcoc

A foursome of astronauts head for the far reaches of space, looking for planets to colonize. There's a macho guy, a tiresome womanizer, an egghead doctor, and a beautiful young woman scientist. After numerous sexist remarks and inappropriate stuff, even for 1965, they find themselves at the bottom of an alien sea, where giant crabs hold forth. One of them is force to put on SCUBA gear (of course, they have SCUBA gear; they're in outer space) and try to test the waters. Meanwhile, macho man gets the hots for the woman he has criticized all along, and they make plans for when they return. Will they return? This is just a throwaway. Even the crabs appear to be filmed in an aquarium with a model of the space ship in the background. This is really awful.

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Stephen R. Beasley (PogMahones)

Four scientists (3 men and 1 woman) head toward the planet, "Tyros", but as they fly through some asteroids, their trajectory is thrown off which causes them to land on it's ocean floor, rather than on the land. On the ocean bottom, which appears to shot in a 75 gallon aquarium, they encounter crabs which are supposed to be attacking the ship, but for all intents and purposes, it looks like they had threads attached to the crabs which were merely dragged across the model in a tank. Kinda lame, especially considering that other movies of it's time had much better special effects. The entire movie appeared to be made by a beginning film student. Even the scene where one scientist is sexually harassing the lone female scientist...was so contrite that I felt an urge to change the channel, but resisted and kept watching it until the end. There is a scene where one humanoid type sea monster attacked a scuba diving scientist which might have (but probably not) been scary if I was a toddler. The scene was completely out of context of the storyline. The actors were "wooden" as if they were just trying to honor their studio contract by appearing the film at all. The lines were very monotone. The reason for traveling to Tyros was never explained.I've given this movie a rating of 1. The plot is painfully thin to say the least. You may enjoy this movie best if you mute the volume because it's such an incredibly basic storyline.I'd love to see this in the hands of Mystery Science Theater 3000. They would make it much more interesting, and funnier.

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rinter-1

I first viewed this movie on Double Chiller Theatre, a Saturday night TV show seen in the Philadelphia area which ran in the mid 1960's. As a kid and a young teenager I loved almost all science fiction, even Teenagers from Outer Space. I found this movie dull, poorly improvised, and uneventful. It had a few cheap special effects which included a rubber alien, a giant crab which did little, and a humanistic frogman out for a swim. There were 4 typical principles in the movie: a by the book commander more suited for a cowboy movie; an attractive young lady who goes out of here way to prove she is as good as any man; a screw off who is aboard only to write a book; and a scientist who does not come off as being all that bright. This TV movie could have been made for the old Saturday matinée at the local theater. It was made with little imagination and probably just to earn a quick easy buck. The movie looked as though it was made in the early 1950's and had the feel of the old Space Cadet serial. And to think Star Trek would be only a few years away from our TV screens.

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