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Satellite in the Sky (1956)

Satellite in the Sky poster
Directed by
Paul Dickson
Genre
science fiction film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 25m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 20 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A crew of British astronauts embarks on a mission to detonate a nuclear bomb in space. The team must deal with a stowaway and the dangers of the experimental flight.

tensesomberseriousretroclinicalsuspensefulcold-war-era

What happens

Satellite in the Sky is a 1956 British CinemaScope science fiction film in Warner Color, produced by Edward J. Danziger and Harry Lee Danziger, directed by Paul Dickson, and starring Kieron Moore, Lois Maxwell, Donald Wolfit, and Bryan Forbes. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. Special effects were by Wally Veevers, who would later work on most influential sci-fi masterpiece, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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