This adaptation, made by Peter Bogdanovich, who chose not to have his name credited on the film, included new scenes added that starred Mamie Van Doren.

The film apparently had at least a limited U.S. release through American International Pictures, but became better known via subsequent cable TV showings and home video sales.

[clarification needed] Astronauts landing on Venus kill a flying creature that resembles a pterosaur, which is worshiped as a god by the local blond Venusian women.

The astronauts eventually escape from Venus, and their abandoned robot, damaged in a flow of volcanic mud and ultimately shut down by the humans for their survival, becomes, in a surprise plot twist ending, the women's new god.

[1] Of the production, Bogdanovich has stated: [Planeta Bur] was a Russian science-fiction film that Roger [Corman] had called Storm Clouds of Venus that he had dubbed into English.

[5] Although the film review website FilmFanatic.org describes it as "a jarring mish-mosh of scenes" and "frightfully sub-par," it also claims "the storyline moves along at a quick enough pace that you’ll likely never be bored".