Goofs

Yeah, the same thing, but much, much worse, happens in QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE, which of course used many stock shots from WWE and was directed by the same guy, Ed Bernds. Only in QOOS, ALL the interior shots of the (same) spaceship showed a bright blue sky outside, deep in outer space, wherein dwelt the aforementioned queen.

To be accurate, while the exterior shots of the ship in QOOS are lifted from WWE (including the flying-through-fire-in-space sequences: this time caused by ray gun blasts from Venus), the interiors are different, although it may be the same set, rearranged and with different furniture. But the instrument panel is identical; in fact, the "space speed indicator" is not only identical, every shot of it is also lifted from WWE -- you never actually see it in a QOOS shot. Now how much money did they save not re-filming that indicator (not to mention having to get a special guy to come in and bend the needle the same way)? QOOS also re-used the attacking pillow spiders, again including some recycled WWE shots.

On the other hand, for a non-goof aspect, I thought the depiction of Mars from orbit was pretty good, even down to showing differing topography, not just a smooth, round painted ball, but mountain ranges, craters, and so on.

"XRM" was just Bernds's unimaginative rip-off of the RXM in 1950's pioneer sci-fi opus, ROCKETSHIP X-M. But besides a lack of originality, maybe Bernds thought that starting the name with X might conjure up the X series of supersonic aircraft (X-1, the later X-15, etc.) then so prominent.

Where was the bathroom on the XRM? In the unseen back, where all their cold-weather clothes and baseball caps were stored, just in case they broke the time barrier? I suppose they were also supplied with guns because someone in whatever space agency existed on "the 17th day of March, 1957" had a moral objection to providing suicide pills?

Say -- is there any significance to the fact that they took off on St. Patrick's Day? That could explain the guns and John Deere hats. They were all loaded at the time.

Point one: don't bother to check, g. You're right as usual.

Point two: obviously, you're not up on 26th century weaponry and its attendant new math. Besides, in a lot of old westerns and things didn't people just keep firing without reloading until they ran out of sound effects?

Naga clung hopelessly to the old ways, so it's not surprising he refused to get a new ax made of what the caveman in the first color episode of Superman referred to as "MEH-tul".

Such an advanced ax could've made all the difference in his fight with Borden, who in any case was primarily concerned with reestablishing his family's 20th-century dairy monopoly.

Not only did the spears have metal tips, but their staffs looked very smooth and professionally manufactured. Again, contrast this with Naga's rough-hewn ax handle. Definitely a throwback to "the ancient world". But then, as Dr. Galbraith told Borden, "In a fight like this the savage has the advantage", even up against a MEH-tul knife. After all, as Galbraith well knew, Charlton Heston had a similar savage advantage in The Savage, as did Clara Bow in Call Her Savage, though she made the fatal mistake of using Arrow shirts as ammunition for her Bow.

But I've got another goof for you: after the Underground People repeatedly fail to make a gun that doesn't explode in your face, the boys hit upon the idea of using the bazooka, and Borden adds, "We'd have to give up on the firearms, but I think it's worth it." So how come they're carrying firearms when they go out mutate-hunting? Okay, assume they're their old guns -- except they now have four, and since Borden had lost his in his fight with the mutate before they found the UPs' cave, where did the extra gun come from? But in any case, they didn't have enough old ammo left, so the UP would at least have had to make bullets for them, and why would these have worked any better or been any safer than their crummy pistols?