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• In the 22nd Century, Ray Peterson, reporter for the Interplanetary News, is assigned to write a story aboard a space station.
• In the 22nd Century, Ray Peterson, reporter for the Interplanetary News, is assigned to write a story aboard a space station. Tension mounts between Peterson and the station's ommander, who think he's in the way, but has orders to leave him alone. Errant spaceship, Alpha Two enters the solar system and its photon generators are radiating enough heat to destroy Earth as it approaches. It falls to Peterson to try to figure out a way to enter the spaceship, disarm the generators, and escape before suffocating. — Doug Sederberg <[email protected]>

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Assignment: Outer Space (1960)

In 2116, Ray Peterson (the wonderfully-named Rik Van Nutter), a reporter for the Interplanetary News , is assigned to write a story aboard a space station.

The rogue, pilotless spacecraft, Alpha Two enters the solar system with its photon generators radiating enough heat to destroy Earth as it approaches. It falls to Peterson to try to figure out a way to enter the spaceship, disarm the generators, and escape before suffocating.

It’s a poorly produced straightforward space opera – resembling a 1950s American sci-fi movie, with spacewalks, gliding spacecraft and starfields – but it’s entertaining and you can clearly detect the enthusiasm of both the director and the cast members.

Assignment: Outer Space was distributed by American International Pictures in the US in 1961, as part of a triple bill that included the East German/Polish co-production First Spaceship on Venus (1960) and the Japanese production The Mysterians (1957).

Released in some markets as Space Men .

Ray Peterson Rik Van Nutter Lucy Gabriella Farinon George (Commander) David Montresor Al – X-15 Archie Savage Archie – Y16 Alain Dijon Sullivan Franco Fantasia King – 116 Joe Pollini Davis David Maran Venus Commander José Néstor Venus Control Anita Todesco

Director Antonio Margheriti

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Assignment: outer space.

Directed by Antonio Margheriti

Fear awaits ...... in the murky mists of outer space!

Interplanetary News reporter Ray Peterson is assigned aboard a space station in the 21st Century.

Rik Van Nutter Gabriella Farinon David Montresor Archie Savage Alain Dijon Franco Fantasia Joe Pollini David Maran José Néstor Anita Todesco Aldo Pini

Director Director

Antonio Margheriti

Producer Producer

Hugo Grimaldi

Writers Writers

Ennio De Concini Jack Wallace

Cinematography Cinematography

Marcello Masciocchi

Executive Producer Exec. Producer

Samuel Z. Arkoff

Special Effects Special Effects

Caesar Peace

Composer Composer

Lelio Luttazzi

Titanus Ultra Film

Alternative Titles

Assignment Outer Space, Le vainqueur de l'espace, 外太空作业

Science Fiction Adventure

Monsters, aliens, sci-fi and the apocalypse Imaginative space odysseys and alien encounters Action-packed space and alien sagas Show All…

Releases by Date

25 aug 1960, 13 dec 1961, releases by country.

• Theatrical 12A Rated A - 12A is the modern equivalent

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Review by Ira Brooker ★ 2

A jerk-ass reporter joins the crew of a space research mission and gets into an immediate love triangle with the ship's somnolent captain and comely first officer. There's a rogue satellite and some space rescue stuff and the threat of global annihilation in the mix too, but gosh, is it hard to care.

I would have bet money that this was one of those '60s Soviet sci-fi flicks that Roger Corman bought up and dubbed over for some quick drive-in cash, but it turns out it's an original Italian production. Some of the model effects and space-age costuming are pretty cool, and it seems like everybody did what they could with a presumably teensy budget, but man, this whole thing draaaags like only boring sci-fi can. Add the fact that Rik Van Nutter's purported protagonist is an insufferable prick who's wrong about everything and you're probably fine skipping this one.

Review by LordSlaw ★★ 2

In the stodgy space-'adventure' Assignment: Outer Space , a brash reporter gets assigned to some sort of Mars mission. He's not really wanted and when he causes an accident with a giant space-hose used for refueling, he's even less welcome.

Cute cosmonaut Lucy, the only woman in the crew, immediately falls in love with the reporter, who makes up for his hose mishap by saving planet Earth from destruction.

There's not a lot to like here. The scooter-like space-taxi is kinda neat. I like the handful of attempts at scientific verisimilitude, like magnetic boots to combat weightlessness and a greenhouse full of oxygen-generating plants. And who doesn't like a massive hose?

Lucy and the reporter act and behave for the most part like actual people. For the the rest of the cast, they attempt to impart the awesome importance of the space mission by delivering grim, heavy, plodding performances.

Assignment: Outer Space . Meh.

Review by Muddguts ★ 2

I don't know how many Italian sci-fi movies have been made to date but I am positive that I just watched the worst of them all. 

The plot sees an unwanted reporter tagging along for a top secret space mission overseen by some seriously grouchy cosmonauts who proceed to call the newsman names like "leech" and "parasite". We discover that the earth's safety is threatened by a man made satellite that has stalled in space and will be colliding with the planet and somehow having enough magnitude to destroy all life. It takes a real long time for the script to tell us this part of the plot but believe me, this ridiculousness is completely overshadowed by the stilted dialog…

Review by Scumbalina ★★ 1

This was crammed on some budget disk with three similar movies. I'm sure the poor quality marred the experience but I walked away from this barely realizing I'd watched a full movie. Dull space drama with no aliens to entertain me and anything that would be aesthetically pleasing is distorted by booger green compression. Assignment Outer Space is something to fall asleep to at the ass end of a marathon. Just use Margheriti's Wild Wild Planet to fill that void.

Review by Filipe Furtado ★½

Early routine sci-fi procedural from Antonio Margheritti. It doesn’t really give him any opportunity to show his action film strengths. Very dull and low budget, although early on the minimal production design have some intrigue.

Review by Trenchy ★

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Review by Larry Yoshida ★★

Dull, forgettable Italian sci-fi film. Rik Van Nutter ( THUNDERBALL ) is a reporter on assignment to a space station. He clashes with the station commander and finds himself in a love triangle. Meanwhile, an out of control spaceship is on a collision course with Earth. Notable only as the feature directorial debut of Antonio Margheriti.

Review by C_Mill24 ★

I like how they abandoned traveling to galaxy M12 (M12 is a globular cluster by the way, not a galaxy), then leave they find a force field(?), and then apparently the news reporter and the biologist fall in love after sharing 5 lines of dialogue, and then the reporter punches the captain for no reason.

How does this movie get lost in its own plot? That's like a video game character getting stuck on itself.

Review by Matt Constantine ★★

Another poorly dubbed import Science Fiction film. There were so many. Sadly, like many others of its type, it's fairly dull.

Review by Cameron ★★★★

At one point, a character describes there being an “orgy of air” and I’m still not sure what to make of that.

It also turns out that this is a Christmas movie, so, move over Star Wars Holiday Special. You’ve got some competition.

(Star rating is based on Rifftrax version)

Review by kultgestalt ★★½

Antonio Margheritis erster Science Fiction Film und gleichzeitig seine erste eigenständige Regiearbeit ist ein eher durchwachsenes Filmerlebnis. Das Problem sind nicht mal so sehr die schlechten Effekte. Die kann man bis zu einem gewissen Punkt noch als charmant empfinden. Das Problem ist hier die unstrukturierte Erzählweise. Auf dem Bildschirm passiert eigentlich dauernd etwas, aber manchmal ist es wirklich schwer, der Handlung zu folgen. Das liegt nicht etwa daran, dass diese so komplex ist, sondern weil hier so viel geredet wird, dass das, was wirklich wichtig ist, in irgendwelchen Nebensätzen untergeht, während man versucht, die Fülle an unwichtigen Informationen zu verarbeiten. Die Bilder sprechen dabei leider auch eher selten für sich, weshalb auch hier oft der Erklärbär aus dem Off einspringen muss. Anstrengend...

Review by Flickers in Time ★

This dud doesn’t even have an alien.

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