Review of Zeta One (1969) by Martin B — 06 Aug 2011

Many expert cinematics has claimed this to be the worst movie made in the history of mankind. Well, it's bad, there's no way getting around that, but maybe it is not the worst of the worst after all.

According to legend there was only like 1 hour of filming material done when the money runned out so there for some complementary scenes were added at another date to try to save anything from the original idea.

For some reasons there are two real actors involved in this mess. James Robertson Justice who for years after the shooting regretted his participation and Charles Hawtrey who at this point in his life was a raving alcoholic and had just beeing fired from the "Carry On"-team for his uneven behaviour.

The story is meant to be a story of Sience Fiction. An amazon soceity kidnaps young women to make them work in their beehive-like world that we at first is made to believe is out in Space in aother dimension, but later on seems to be situated in Scotland.

There are some partial nudity in the top-less version performed and a lot of confusion not only for the viewers but for the actors too as it seems.

The musical score, written and performed by Johnny Hawksworth is of much higher quality that the movie in itself. And playboy James word (Robin Hawdon) has got some cool furnishings in his apartment including "the egg" and other nice looking interior of 1973.