Review of First Spaceship on Venus

What surprised me was that so little of the original basic storyline had been changed. Of course, in this version the head of the expedition is Russian(not American), as is the spaceship, which the Russians generously offer for the trip, and the moonbase is referred to as socialist, though it has been benevolently been made available to all nations. And the Americans are presented here as greedy business men who try to prevent the one idealistic American scientist from joining the Venus mission. The American also feels guilty about helping to create the Atomic bomb, and the bombing of Hiroshima, which just so happens to have made the Japanese woman on the voyage afraid to have mutated babies due to the radiation she received during the war. Of course this has greater significance when they reach Venus, and realize that the Venusians accidentally destroyed themselves fifty years before in a huge nuclear explosion, while attempting to invade Earth. There is one very interesting scene left out of the American print, which shows the American and Russian Astronaut (Cosmonauts?) sitting in a field, touching mother earth, and remarking thoughtfully about the trip they're about to take. Perhaps this scene was deleted because the two characters, though friends, were depicted in earlier scenes as being from two different societies, and their conversation wouldn't have made sense in the more Utopian world the US version depicts. But other than the previously described changes, a few scenes which show family members saying goodbye to the astronauts, there is little difference between the two available versions of the film, and the added footage cant be more than several minutes long, if that.