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Rocketship X-M is a american film of genre Science fiction directed by Kurt Neumann released in USA on 2 june 1950 with Lloyd Bridges

Rocketship X-M (1950)

Rocketship X-M
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Released in USA 2 june 1950
Length 1h18
Directed by
OriginUSA
Rating49% 2.454142.454142.454142.454142.45414

Rocketship X-M (also known as Expedition Moon and originally as Rocketship Expedition Moon) is a 1950 American black-and-white science fiction film from Lippert Pictures, the first outer space adventure of the post-World War II era. The film was produced and directed by Kurt Neumann, and stars Lloyd Bridges, Osa Massen, John Emery, Noah Beery, Jr., Hugh O'Brian and Morris Ankrum.

Rocketship X-M tells the story of a Moon expedition that through a series of unforeseen events winds up traveling instead to distant Mars. Once on the Red Planet, its crew discovers the remnants of a Martian civilization destroyed long ago by atomic war and now reverted to barbarism.

Synopsis

Four men and a woman blast into outer space from the White Sands Proving Ground aboard the RX-M (Rocketship Expedition-Moon) on humanity's first expedition to Luna. Halfway to their destination, the RX-M's engines shut down; the problem is resolved by recalculating the fuel mixture ratios and then moving around some of the propellent tanks and their connecting hoses. When the engines are reignited, the RX-M rapidly careens out of control, accidentally setting the spaceship on a runaway course heading beyond the Moon and into deep space. During this burst of rapid acceleration, the crew, one by one, becomes unconscious due to a drop in oxygen pressure. The engines are shut off just in time. At some later time, perhaps many days, they slowly come around. The revived crew soon discovers the RX-M has traveled some 50,000,000 miles while they were unconscious. Against all odds, this surprising sequence of events has put them on a direct course heading toward Mars. They also notice the RX-M's speed is still increasing, this time due to gravitational attraction: the Red Planet is drawing them in. They quickly calculate they are only 50,000 miles away. This forces Dr. Karl Eckstrom (John Emery) to "pause and observe respectfully while something infinitely greater assumes control.

Actors

Lloyd Bridges

(Colonel Floyd Graham)Osa Massen

(Dr. Lisa Van Horn)John Emery

(Dr. Karl Eckstrom)Noah Beery, Jr

(Major William Corrigan)Hugh O'Brian

(Harry Chamberlain)
And :
Morris Ankrum
Patrick Aherne
Stuart Holmes
Barry Norton
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