Bruno Ve Sota's Invasion of the Star Creatures (1962) has a pedigree that's more interesting than anything in the movie. Not that the latter isn't fun, as a light-hearted goof on horror and science fiction movies (especially those of Roger Corman); it is, but it's sort of one-note fun, once you get past the two goofy soldiers portrayed by Robert Ball and Frankie Ray, and their encounter with a pair of deep-space Amazons (Dolores Reed, Gloria Victor) and the Vege-men slaves. The film originated with a story by actor Jonathan Haze -- a member of the Corman stock company, Monsters From Nicholson Mesa, since 1954. Looking at the finished script, one can see exactly where Haze wrote a part for himself, or some like-minded comic actor, in the inept Pvt. Philbrick (played by Robert Ball); similarly, the character of Penn, played by comic Frankie Ray, was very obviously written with Haze's friend and fellow Corman stock player Dick Miller in mind. One can't watch the movie without thinking of how these actors might have handled the roles; not that Robert Ball and Frankie Ray are bad -- Ray is funny as the Brooklyn-accented tough guy sidekick to Ball, and even works in some delightful impressions of James Cagney, Peter Lorre, and Edward G. Robinson. And Reed and Victor are great to look at as their towering would-be romantic conquests.