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4.8/10 • 49

1950-06-021h 17m

Science FictionAdventure

The screen's first story of man's conquest of space!

Astronauts blast off to explore the moon on Rocketship X-M or "Rocketship eXploration Moon". A spacecraft malfunction and some fuel miscalculations cause them to end up landing on Mars. On Mars, evidence of a once powerful civilization is found. The scientists determined that an atomic war destroyed most of the Martians. Those that survived reverted to a caveman like existence.

Directors
Kurt Neumann
Writters
Kurt Neumann
Editors
Kurt Neumann, Harry Gerstad

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Lloyd Bridges

    Lloyd Bridges

    Colonel Floyd Graham

  2. Osa Massen

    Osa Massen

    Dr. Lisa Van Horn

  3. John Emery

    John Emery

    Dr. Karl Eckstrom

  4. Noah Beery Jr.

    Noah Beery Jr.

    Major William Corrigan

  5. Hugh O'Brian

    Hugh O'Brian

    Harry Chamberlain

  6. Morris Ankrum

    Morris Ankrum

    Dr. Ralph Fleming

  7. Patrick Aherne

    Patrick Aherne

    Reporter #1

  8. Sherry Moreland

    Sherry Moreland

    Martian girl

  9. John Dutra

    John Dutra

    Physician

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CinemaSerf

Dec 27, 2022

5/10

It's just a bit too derivative, this film. Lloyd Bridges and his team of astronauts set off for the moon, but en route they are thrown off course and end up landing on Mars. It doesn't take them long to discovers the remains of a substantial civiliation on the surface - a society that looks as if it met a pretty violent end. Further exploration reveals that there are survivors - but are they friend or foe, and can they help our travellers get home? I was never an huge fan of Bridges, and here he and his perfect coiffure go through the motions with little engagement as, to be fair, do the contributions from the dreadfully wooden Osa Massen ("Lisa van Horn") and the usually more charismatic Noah Beery Jnr, ("Corrigan"). It is short, the pace is not bad and there is enough of a story to keep it watchable, it is just the acting, effects and the dialogue that are pretty unremarkable.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$94,000.00
Revenue
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Keywords
space travel