Rocketship X-M

6/2/19501h 17m

Theatrical Release (US)

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

Overview:

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.

Director:

Kurt Neumann

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$94,000.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

space travel

Cast

Lloyd Bridges

~ as ~

Colonel Floyd Graham

Osa Massen

~ as ~

Dr. Lisa Van Horn

John Emery

~ as ~

Dr. Karl Eckstrom

Noah Beery Jr.

~ as ~

Major William Corrigan

Hugh O'Brian

~ as ~

Harry Chamberlain

Morris Ankrum

~ as ~

Dr. Ralph Fleming

Patrick Aherne

~ as ~

Reporter #1

Sherry Moreland

~ as ~

Martian girl

John Dutra

~ as ~

Physician

Kathy Marlowe

~ as ~

Reporter

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 2 year(s) ago
5
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.