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Moon Zero Two (1969)

Moon Zero Two poster
Directed by
Roy Ward Baker
Genre
adventure film, science fiction film, dystopian film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 40m
Rated
G
Rating
4.9 of 10 from 41 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A former astronaut works as a salvager on the Moon in 2021. He gets hired by a rich industrialist to capture a sapphire asteroid and also searches for a missing brother.

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What happens

Moon Zero Two is a 1969 British science fiction film from Hammer Films, directed by Roy Ward Baker and starring James Olson, Catherine Schell, Warren Mitchell, and Adrienne Corri. The screenplay was by Michael Carreras from an original story by Gavin Lyall, Frank Hardman, and Martin Davison. The film takes place on the Moon in 2021. A former astronaut turned salvager helps a millionaire space industrialist capture a sapphire asteroid, while also helping a woman find her missing brother. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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