Captain William Fletcher (played by Claude Akins) lands his space ship on an asteroid (of course) to repair damage done by a meteor shower.\u00a0 His copilot Peter Craig bellyaches about the inconvenience of being stuck on a boring speck of dust and about having to obey Fletcher\u2019s orders.\u00a0 When Fletcher asks him why he\u2019s so allergic to taking orders Craig confesses that what he wants more than anything else is to be the big boss.<\/p>\n
While Fletcher is busy repairing the ship, Craig goes out exploring the asteroid.\u00a0 He discovers water but what is astonishing is that he discovers a civilization of tiny people smaller than ants.\u00a0 They have towns and automobiles and boats.\u00a0 And what makes Craig really happy is that he has become their leader and in fact their god.\u00a0 Because he can destroy anything in their world just by stepping on it the little people fear him and will obey any order, he gives them.<\/p>\n
The next day Fletcher discovers that the little people have built a life size statue of Peter Craig.\u00a0 Craig had ordered them to build it and complete it in one night.\u00a0 But when Craig starts stepping on some of the little people\u2019s town, just to keep them afraid and show who\u2019s boss, Fletcher knocks Craig down and berates him for behaving like a sadist.<\/p>\n
Later on, Fletcher tells Craig that he\u2019s repaired the ship and now it\u2019s time to leave.\u00a0 Craig refuses to leave and when Fletcher attempts to force him to go Craig pulls out a blaster and threatens Fletcher with it.\u00a0 In fact, he blows the head off of his statue to show he means business. \u00a0Craig intends to stay on the asteroid and spend his days as the deity of the little people and their curse.\u00a0 Craig gives Fletcher an ultimatum, leave or die.\u00a0 So, Fletcher blasts off in the rocket and Craig laughs as the ship ascends into the sky.\u00a0 But later a space ship lands and two giants as tall as mountains happen upon Petr Craig and one accidentally crushes him to death while trying to pick him up.\u00a0 The giants are saddened by the accidental death they\u2019ve caused but they drop Peter back on the ground near the little people\u2019s settlement as they leave.<\/p>\n
Later we see that the little people use ropes to tip over the statue on top of the corpse of their former god.<\/p>\n
What can I say?\u00a0 Claude Akins is an amusing character actor but there\u2019s not much to work with here.\u00a0 It\u2019s sort of a riff on Gulliver\u2019s Travels and the bad guy gets his comeuppance, I guess.\u00a0 C+ is the best I can do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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