In early Hollywood, movie scripts for any science fiction movie tended to gravitated around a standard formula. There were good guys, a menacing bad guy and of course pretty women. In addition, there was the danger of aliens, monsters or strange creatures. This 1956 science fiction movie had all those ingredients. Interestingly enough, it was Hugh Marlowe, playing the lead character John Borden. Nelson Leigh is brainy Dr. Eldon Galbraithe and Christopher Dark as 'Hank' Jaffe. Surprisingly last was future Mega-Star, Rod Taylor who despite low billing plays athletically handsome Herbert Ellis. Their story is of astronaut Earthmen traveling to Mars, on a routine reconnaissance mission to the red Planet. Unexpectedly, on their return trip, they are thrust into a time vortex and hurled 500 years into the future. There they are confronted with Mutants, Giant spiders and a timid race of humans living below ground, but in a high degree of comfort. A low budget, a slight degree of imagination and a puritanical often cautionary script, made for shallow entertainment. Still with Rod Taylor burgeoning to break out of his scripted shell, the movie displays an entertaining view of future film 'planet of the Apes.' Within the movie itself, there is the addition of much Eye-Candy galore which alone keep in tradition with the 1950's. Enjoy. ***