Gorath (1962)

Storyline :

Gorath 1962 In 1980, a giant planetoid named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth Even though it is smaller than Earth, its mass is huge enough to crush the Earth and destroy it A mission sent to observe Gorath is destroyed after all the orbiting ships are drawn into the planetoid A later mission is sent to observe and the crew barely leaves before suffering the same fate However Astronaut Tatsuo Kanai is left in a catatonic state due to his near death experience The Earths scientists then come up with a desperate plan to build giant rockets at the South Pole to move Earth out of Goraths path before it is too late