Destination Moon




Released: June 27, 1950
Director: Irving Pichel
Producer: George Pal
Screenplay: James O'Hanlon, Robert A. Heinlein & Rip Van Ronkel
Score: Leith Stevens
Edited: Duke Goldstone
Based on the novel Rocket Ship Galileo

Starring:
John Archer
Warner Anderson
Tom Powers
Dick Wesson

A team composed of an aerospace scientist an ex-Air Force general and an industrialist conceive an ambitious plan to land Americans on the moon. From their base in the Mojave Desert, they construct and successfully launch a spacecraft named "Luna" that contains a cargo of four astronauts. But a critical miscalculation of needed power to escape the moon's gravitational pull may put the astronauts' lives in danger.



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