BATTLE BEYOND THE SUN
1962

Roger Corman acquired the 1959 Soviet film Nebo Zovyot (The Sky is Calling) for US distribution and hired a young film-school student named Francis Ford Coppola to Westernize it. In addition to preparing a dubbing script free of anti-American propaganda and supervising the dubbing, Coppola filmed a few shots of two space monsters fighting and cut them into the Soviet material. The new monster scenes were shot on a sound stage at hollywood. Hill and Coppola also shot some footage of the Rose Bowl Parade at Pasadena.

PLOT:
Two countries race to have the first successful landing on Mars.

CAST:
Ivan Pereverzev    ...     Yevgeny Petrovich Kornev
Aleksandr Shvorin    ...     Andrei Gordienko (Craig Matthews - US)
Linda Barrett    ...     (U.S. version) (voice)
Konstantin Bartashevich    ...     Klark (as K. Bartashevich)
Larisa Borisenko    ...     Olvra (as L. Borisenko)
V. Chernyak    ...     Gregori Vasilivich Somov
Viktor Dobrovolsky    ...     Demchenko (as V. Dobrovolsky)
Frederick Farley    ...     (U.S. version) (voice)
S. Filimonov    ...     Troyan
Mary Kannon    ...     (U.S. version) (voice)
Taisiya Litvinenko    ...     Lena
Lawrence Loben    ...     (U.S. version) (voice)
L. Lobov    ...     Sashko
Edd Perry    ...     (U.S. version) (voice)
Alla Popova    ...     Korneva (Nancy Matthews - US)
Arla Powell    ...     (U.S. version) (voice)
Marina Samojlova    ...     Matra (Mother) Klark (Mother Matthews - US)
Andy Stewart    ...     (U.S. version) (voice)
Gene Tonner    ...     (U.S. version) (voice)
Gurgen Tonunts    ...     Herman Berst

Directed by Mikhail Karzhukov, Aleksandr Kozyr         
Re-edited version with new footage: Francis Ford Coppola (as Thomas Colchart)

RUNNING TIME: 64 MIN US version