

The Bamboo Saucer
To Control Its Power Is To Rule The World
A flying saucer hidden in a Red Chinese peasant village is sought by teams from the United States and U.S.S.R. On finding it, they band together to explore the saucer and take a trip into space.
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- Language
- Russian
- flying saucer
- cold war
- soviet union
- u.s. air force
- russian spy
- communist china
- independent film
- low budget
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalG23 Oct 1968
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- TheatricalT30 Jun 1969
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The Bamboo Saucer was released on 23 October 1968.
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CinemaSerf
4/4/2022
Dan Duryea is "Peters", and American leading a team racing to beat their Soviet counterparts to a remote "Red" Chinese village where they think there might be a flying saucer that was involved in an incident with one of their fighters. Needless to say, the Chinese are after it too and a combination of circumstances mean that when they find the thing, the rivals must team up in order to avoid capture and to get it air…
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Wuchak
4/1/2026
**_Americans, Soviets and Chinese discover a flying saucer_** The opening scenes are reminiscent of Major Nelson and Roger Healey at Cape Canaveral on I Dream of Jeannie, just without the goofiness. The rest of the movie is a meshing of two films that were released before this: “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming” and “Five Million Years to Earth,” aka “Quatermass and the Pit.” It includes the teamin…
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