Goofs

After the Queen describes her machine to annihilate Earth, she mentions that it would only take a push "on one red button." However, a few minutes later she stands before a panel with two very BLACK buttons, one of which she pushes to start the machine going.

One of the women who initially captures the crew is a blonde wearing a chartreuse outfit. When these guards are shown leading the crew through a hallway as other women look on, this same blonde is shown in close-up among the spectators, watching the prisoners being escorted by, among others, herself -- still visible as one of the guards.

When Talleah brings food to the crew, she stays to talk with them and the top veil of her gown keeps changing positions in each shot.

When Talleah enters the prisoners' room, she leaves a tray with food on the table. Next scenes, the table is empty and no traces of the tray.

The "bed" that Professor Konrad gets strapped into has two safety belts. When they are being attacked he jumps into it and only straps the one going over his torso, which would keep him from sitting up. In following shots he still has the one over his legs unstrapped. But then when the ship is hit, the one over his legs is strapped tight.

The professor says that Venus has several moons when it in fact has none.

After landing on Venus, the crew check gravity and oxygen readings and determine they won't need their pressure suits. In reality, the atmospheric pressure on Venus is roughly 92 times that of Earth, and would be comparable to the pressure found at the bottom of the ocean.

In the movie, Venus is shown to have climates resembling those on Earth. In reality, Venus has a relatively unchanging temperature of around 450 degrees Celsius (840 degrees Fahrenheit). Venus has almost no seasonal change, and even during night time (which lasts for about 54 Earth days), the thick atmosphere traps in heat such that the temperature remains hot enough to melt lead.

The crash landing sequence shows the surface of Venus to be covered in craters, much like the surface of the moon. In actuality, the atmosphere on Venus is so thick and the atmospheric pressure so great that most asteroids disintegrate before reaching the surface. The surface of Venus has relatively few craters.

When the crew lands on Venus, it is day time. Soon after leaving the ship, night sets in and the crew members take guard duty shifts while the others sleep. The next scene shows that morning has come. However, due to Venus's slow rotation on its axis, it takes about 117 Earth days for just 1 solar day on Venus. The night on Venus would last roughly 1,395 hours.

In the views of earth through the queen's "electronic telescope" latitude and longitude lines are clearly visible on the globe.

As the ship flies toward the space station, the porthole shows a bright blue sky outside, in outer space.

The rays that are fired at and eventually destroy the space station are shown coming from many directions in a nearly 360-degree arc, yet since they're all emanating from the same weapon based at a single location on Venus, the rays should be coming at the station from only one direction.

During the chase through the forest, the same very distinctive gray tree that bends 90 degrees to the right at about a 3 foot level is clearly seen in three separate locations.

The first shot of the V-2 rocket (see other entry) is stock footage that was shot with spherical lenses and horizontally stretched for the film's 2.35:1 aspect ratio, as the rocket wouldn't have fitted the frame if they simply - and correctly - had zoomed in the footage.

When Talleah puts on the mask and impersonates Queen Yllana, nobody seems to notice that the Queen suddenly has a thick Hungarian accent.

Film footage from two different rockets is used in the early part of the movie. Just after the crew receives the briefing for their mission a V-2 is shown being fueled at the White Sands Missile facility. This V-2 (showing TF-5 on the tail fin) flew on September 19, 1952. The launch sequence is of an Atlas A ICBM that was launched from Cape Canaveral in early 1958. A third, much more streamlined model unrelated to other two is seen in space.

Before leaving the ship, Professor Konrad postulates that because the gravity is similar to Earth's, the atmosphere ought to be breathable as well. Gravity has little or nothing to do with the composition of a planet's atmosphere, something Konrad ought to know.

In a world where everyone speaks in the same, "midwestern" accent, only one character speaks with a thick accent, Zsa Zsa.

The crew members are explicitly forbidden from telling anyone about their mission, and yet on the day of the launch, Lieutenant Turner is shown kissing his sweetheart just outside of the rocket. It seems highly unlikely that she'd be allowed on the base let alone the launch pad, and although clearly Lieutenant Turner has told her at least something of the mission, no one bats an eye at this indiscretion.

The earth men and some of the Venusian women hide in a cave that has many visible veins of gold in the rocks. When the earth men indicate the value of gold to the Venusian women, the women seem mystified over the concept of gold being a valuable, precious metal. And yet these same women have studied Earth's language for years, and, many of the women wear what appears to be expensive jewelry. Even if their own planet has an abundance of gold, it's inconceivable that they could not know about gold's value to earth men.