Mutiny in Outer Space

I found this to be a good science fiction movie, although the special effects were weak. It has a crew revolt, ala The Caine Mutiny as noted in another review, as they have to overcome the mental breakdown of the station's commander to combat a fast-growing deadly fungus. It has elements of realism harking back to The Thing from Outer Space and the authorities at space command actually show intelligence by anticipating actions taken by the crew, understanding the nature of the fungus, and offering a possible solution to saving the crew and station.

If you can ignore the lack of good special effects, this movie is worth the time.

Never did see a mutiny. It is more of a space station being contaminated by a fungus. Looks like the station will have to be dispatched before the Earth is fungicides. We are mesmerized by Dolores Faith. But her rubber suit is very clunky. Can the space station be saved or do you feel like something is itching where it should not be itching?

Filmed in six days at a whopping $90,000. And it shows. Could have been a Commander Cody or Captain Midnight quality

William Leslie as Maj. Gordon Towers Dolores Faith as Faith Montaine Pamela Curran as Lt. Connie Engstrom Richard Garland as Col. Frank Cromwell Harold Lloyd Jr. As Sgt. Andrews James Dobson as Dr. Hoffman Ron Stokes as Sgt. Sloan Boyd Holister as Maj. Olsen Gabriel Curtiz as Dr. Stoddard Glenn Langan as Gen. Knowland H. Kay Stephens as Sgt. Engstrom Francine York as Capt. Stevens Joel Smith Carl Crow as Capt. Dan Webber.

On the way from the moon to the space station, a fungus breaks out on the rocket and it's alarming how quickly the stuff is spreading. Unfortunately, the Commander seems to be space sick and won't even listen to the warnings by some of his crew. Instead, he orders the ship to continue towards the station, and it ends up spreading the fungus there as well. To make it worse, the fungus kills! If the Commander doesn't relent, mutiny is sure to break out sooner or later.

This movie is a mixed bag. The special effects are pretty shabby (particularly the space footage), though that's pretty much true of ALL space films made before "2001". The dialog is pretty sexist at times...again, a product of the times. But the story itself is actually pretty good as the megalomaniacal angle was pretty good and makes the film worth your time if you like this sort of thing.

In MUTINY IN OUTER SPACE, ice caves have been discovered on the lunar surface. A team is dispatched to gather samples from the caves. On the way back to Earth, the astronauts stop off at Space Station X-7.

Oh no!

It seems they've arrived at a bad time, since the station's commander is under stress from too much time in space, and could be cracking up! In addition to this, the new guests have brought something with them from the moon. Something alien and infinitely dangerous! Then, the obligatory meteor shower hits! All of this has a detrimental effect on the romances on board the station!

As the commander goes increasingly bananas, the alien organism spreads, turning the station into a floating hell!

Sort of THE GREEN SLIME meets THE CAINE MUTINY, this movie is a cheeeze-corn classic, complete with derring-do, fuzzy fungus monsters, and fashionable females in form-fitting uniforms!

Highly entertaining...

It isn't so much the special effects, that kills Mutiny in Outer Space (1965), as much as, the bad acting, horrible soundtrack and the creature effects, looked really bad. The monster-fungus looked like wet hair, rolled up from the salon floor. The story is slow and wrinkly, but it is about a lunar fungus, wreaking havoc on a space station. There really isn't much more there to go with. The version of the film that I saw, was in 4:3. The audio sounded like it was uploaded to the streamer I used, incorrectly. What was good about Mutiny in Outer Space (1965), was the human part of the plot. There are a lot of strong, confident, female characters in the film. It showed, that the audience in 1965, was looking towards the future.

In Mutiny in Outer Space (1965), director, Hugo Grimaldi, explores the ideas of time spent in space, human endurance in zero-gravity, the vastness of space corrupting the human mind and the effects space travel has on the physical body. They even explained how the fungus, which can't stand cold temperatures, is attached to the outside hull of the spaceship, even though we know, space is cold and frigid. I won't tell you why or how it is, but they did fix a believability question, by explaining that plot point to us. The film is an E for Effort and is recommended, as a viewpoint from a 1960s, science-fiction, low-budget perspective. You can tell, that the producers of this film tried their best, but the budget just wasn't there.

4.9 (E+ MyGrade) = 5 IMDB.