Rocketship X-M
The screen's first story of man's conquest of space!
1950 | 77m | English
Popularity: 13 (history)
| Director: | Kurt Neumann |
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| Writer: | Kurt Neumann |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Jun 02, 1950 |
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| Director: | Kurt Neumann |
| Writer: | Kurt Neumann |
| Genres: | Adventure, Science Fiction |
| Keywords | space travel |
| Production Companies | Lippert Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $94,000 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 02, 2025 Entered: Apr 25, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Morris Ankrum | Dr. Ralph Fleming |
| Patrick Aherne | Reporter #1 |
| Sherry Moreland | Martian girl |
| John Dutra | Physician |
| Kathy Marlowe | Reporter |
| Tom Coleman | Reporter (uncredited) |
| James Conaty | Doctor Taking Lisa's Blood Pressure (uncredited) |
| Sam Harris | Reporter at Press Briefing (uncredited) |
| Judd Holdren | Reporter #3 (uncredited) |
| Stuart Holmes | Reporter (uncredited) |
| Barry Norton | Reporter (uncredited) |
| Cosmo Sardo | Reporter (uncredited) |
| Bert Stevens | Reporter (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Orville H. Hampton | Dialogue |
| Ferde Grofé Sr. | Original Music Composer |
| Clarence Steensen | Set Decoration |
| Don L. Cash | Makeup Artist |
| Mike Matney | Production Manager |
| Frank Heath | Second Unit Cinematographer, Assistant Director |
| Lou Asher | Property Master |
| Tom Lambert | Sound Engineer |
| Don Stewart | Special Effects |
| Theobold Holsopple | Production Design |
| Harry Gerstad | Editor |
| Kurt Neumann | Writer, Director |
| Betty Sinclair | Production Manager |
| Karl Struss | Director of Photography |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Murray Lerner | Executive Producer |
| Kurt Neumann | Producer |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 3 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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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.