Directed by - Irving Pichel

Starring:
John Archer
Warner Anderson
Tom Powers
Dick Wesson

Considered by many to be the first serious Sci-Fi movie ever. There ain't no monsters or alien invaders in this one but it's kind of pretty to look at. The ship doesn't even get whacked by a meteor shower or anything. However, there's a Woody Woodpecker cartoon giving us a short explanation of how rockets function. That's kinda neat.

Some bigshot money boys decide to throw the necessary bucks together to get a rocket and crew to the moon to claim it for the good old U.S. of A. That way the Commies won't be able to get there first and set up a missle base to blow us all to hell.

For some reason the government doesn't want the mission to go ahead. However, they blast off just before a court order can be executed.

About the only exciting thing we get to see is a spacewalk gone awry. The guy isn't anchored right and starts drifting away. He is saved by by another crew member who uses an oxygen tank to propel himself out to the poor sucker and bring him back.

They have a bit of a bad landing on the moon and use up too much fuel. They must now jettison every non-essential bit of weight they can. But they still come up 110 pounds short. Can you guess what that means? I say chuck out the doofus with the horrible Brooklyn accent.

Like, I know it's part of the 50's formula to have a doofus on board every spaceship, but this guy is murder. He drove me nuts throughout the entire movie. Every time this goof opened his mouth I wanted to rip his lungs out just to shut him up. Incredibly, he has a clone or a twin or something who appeared in "Conquest Of Space 1955" Yes, I wanted to rip his lungs out too.

Anyway, they figure out an alternative and the doofus gets to return to Earth, much to my chagrin.

Although there isn't a lot of action or excitement going on here it's still a not bad flick. It has a lot of real science going on here which is something that just about every film to follow lacked. So for just that reason alone it's worth a watch.