According to Marc Scott Zicree's "Twilight Zone Companion", screenwriter Charles Beaumont wrote the screenplay of this film as a spoof, problem was, (according to Beaumont)too many people who worked on the film didn't seem to realize it. Perhaps Zsa Zsa Gabor, who played her role in it as straight drama, as noted in another comment, is an example of this.
The scene near the beginning, in which the girlfriend of one of the astronauts watches his rocket take off, after a passionate goodbye clinch with her man, wearing deep red lipstick and a bright green dress, which billows "dramatically" around her from the wind of the takeoff, is reminiscent of the famous and iconic scene of Marilyn Monroe with her skirt billowing up around her while standing on the subway grating, in "The Seven Year Itch".
The surface of "Venus", seen spinning at, and rushing up to, the rocket right before it crashes, is really a photograph of the moon taken from one of the larger Earth-based telescopes - one at Lick Observatory, perhaps ?
The "beta disintegrator" the Queen intends to use to destroy the Earth reminds me of a giant kid's beanie with a propeller on top. The image of Earth as seen from Venus that appears in the weapon's view screen is of fair quality, and may even include some cloud cover.
Like "World Without End", I think this film may have been shown on TV laterally compressed, to fit the wide screen image into a narrower TV screen format without losing any of it. In the case of "World Without End", it made my dad ask me if I'd been fooling with the knobs on the back of the set, when I watched it on TV. Cue the "Outer Limits" control voice :
"There is nothing wrong with your television set ..."
The big fight near the end, which seems to consist of almost the entire cast shoving each other about in an annoyed, girlish way, is what Stephen King referred to in his novel "Christine" as a "pushy pushy" : an expression of annoyance without any serious intent or attempt to inflict harm.
The friend who mentioned this to me, once saw "Queen" on a double bill with the original "Attack Of The Fifty Foot Woman" in a NYC revival cinema. She remarked that the audience was almost as much fun as the film, as it consisted mostly of gay male couples doing Zsa Zsa Gabor impersonations all over each other !
The scene near the beginning, in which the girlfriend of one of the astronauts watches his rocket take off, after a passionate goodbye clinch with her man, wearing deep red lipstick and a bright green dress, which billows "dramatically" around her from the wind of the takeoff, is reminiscent of the famous and iconic scene of Marilyn Monroe with her skirt billowing up around her while standing on the subway grating, in "The Seven Year Itch".
The surface of "Venus", seen spinning at, and rushing up to, the rocket right before it crashes, is really a photograph of the moon taken from one of the larger Earth-based telescopes - one at Lick Observatory, perhaps ?
The "beta disintegrator" the Queen intends to use to destroy the Earth reminds me of a giant kid's beanie with a propeller on top. The image of Earth as seen from Venus that appears in the weapon's view screen is of fair quality, and may even include some cloud cover.
Like "World Without End", I think this film may have been shown on TV laterally compressed, to fit the wide screen image into a narrower TV screen format without losing any of it. In the case of "World Without End", it made my dad ask me if I'd been fooling with the knobs on the back of the set, when I watched it on TV. Cue the "Outer Limits" control voice :
"There is nothing wrong with your television set ..."
The big fight near the end, which seems to consist of almost the entire cast shoving each other about in an annoyed, girlish way, is what Stephen King referred to in his novel "Christine" as a "pushy pushy" : an expression of annoyance without any serious intent or attempt to inflict harm.
The friend who mentioned this to me, once saw "Queen" on a double bill with the original "Attack Of The Fifty Foot Woman" in a NYC revival cinema. She remarked that the audience was almost as much fun as the film, as it consisted mostly of gay male couples doing Zsa Zsa Gabor impersonations all over each other !