PROJECT MOON BASE (1953) ¢ ¢
D: Richard Talmadge
Donna Martell, Ross Ford, Larry Johns,
Hayden Rorke, Herb Jacobs, Barbara Morrison
Astronauts on a mission to take pictures in the lead-up to a moon landing are forced to land on the moon themselves when something goes wrong. Unexciting Cold War sci-fi with the accent on low-budget technology more than high-concept storytelling. (For a movie released more than 15 years before the actual event, the lunar landing vehicle looks a lot like the real thing.) Robert Heinlein wrote the script, and the sporty shorts and helmets the astronauts wear are cute.
