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Destination Moon (1950)
Directed by Irving Pichel
“Two years in the making!”
Science Fiction, Adventure, Drama · 1h 31m
A team composed of an aerospace scientist, an ex-Air Force general, and an industrialist conceives an ambitious plan to land Americans on the moon. From their base in the Mojave Desert, they construct and successfully launch a spacecraft named "Luna" that contains a cargo of four astronauts. But a critical miscalculation of needed power to escape the moon's gravitational pull may put the astronauts' lives in danger.
Cast
John Archer
Jim Barnes
Warner Anderson
Dr. Charles Cargraves
Tom Powers
General Thayer
Dick Wesson
Joe Sweeney
Erin O'Brien-Moore
Emily Cargraves
Steve Carruthers
Businessman at Meeting (uncredited)
Franklyn Farnum
Factory Worker (uncredited)
Jack Gargan
Businessman at Meeting (uncredited)
Everett Glass
Mr. La Porte (uncredited)
Kenner G. Kemp
Businessman at Meeting (uncredited)
Knox Manning
Himself (uncredited)
M
Mike Miller
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Irving Pichel
- Screenplay
- Alford Van Ronkel, Robert A. Heinlein, James O'Hanlon
- Director of Photography
- Lionel Lindon
- Original Music Composer
- Leith Stevens
- Editor
- Duke Goldstone
- Producer
- George Pal
Details
- Release date
- 1950-06-27
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Genres
- Science Fiction, Adventure, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- George Pal Productions
- Budget
- $592,000
- Box office
- $5,000,000