Underplayed Gems

Missile to the Moon (1958)

Missile to the Moon poster
Directed by
Richard E. Cunha
Genre
science fiction film, monster film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 18m
Rated
12
Rating
3.7 of 10 from 33 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A spaceship flies to the moon with five people on board. One of them is secretly a moon man who dies on the way. The others find rock monsters, giant spiders, and a society of women living in caves.

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What happens

Missile to the Moon is a 1958 independently made American black-and-white science fiction film drama, produced by Marc Frederic, directed by Richard E. Cunha, that stars Richard Travis, Cathy Downs, and K. T. Stevens. The film was distributed by Astor Pictures and is a remake of an earlier Astor Pictures-distributed film, Cat-Women of the Moon (1953). Missile to the Moon was released in late 1958. It played theatrically on December 15, 1958 as a double feature with Cunha's Frankenstein's Daughter (1958). A spaceship blasts off from Earth with five aboard, but one of them is secretly a Moon man returning home. He dies by accident during the trip to the Moon. What the remaining four find waiting for them when they arrive on the Moon is well beyond their expectations: huge rock creatures, giant lunar spiders, and a cave-dwelling civilization made up of beautiful women. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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