Escape from Planet Earth

A rocket crew, led by Incredible Shrinking Man star Grant Williams, are on their way to Venus when Earth is destroyed in an atomic war started by Red China. After much hot-tempered arguing, macho flirting and stalking through corridors they decide to restart the human race somewhere else in space. A comatose cosmic caper fleshed out with stock footage from disaster documentaries and the Japanese Warning from Space (1956) and directed in his usual disinterested manner by schlock maestro Lee (Superman and the Mole People) Sholem. Completely devoid of style or sense, this was made in 1967 but not released until 1972, three years before the supposed 1975 nuclear holocaust depicted here as a papier mâché globe on a string.