Missile to the Moon

1958 "Lunar She-Devils Lure Earthmen Into Their Lair of Doom!"
4| 1h18m| en
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Two escaped convicts are found hiding in a rocketship built by a renegade inventor, who forces them to become the crew for a trip to the Moon. Also on board, as inadvertent stowaways, are his assistant and his secretary; and none of them are aware that the inventor is actually a Lunarian explorer sent to Earth by the dying Lunar civilization and the only remaining male member of that civilization.

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Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.
Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
Portia Hilton Blistering performances.
Matho The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.
Leofwine_draca MISSILE TO THE MOON is an endearingly cheesy science fiction B-movie of the 1950s. The plot concerns a group of woodenly-acted astronauts who travel to the Moon only to discover that it has a number of inhabitants. Chief of these is a race of blue-skinned warrior women dressed in the most fetching of bikini-clad ensembles (outer space women were a running theme of the decade). Also around to menace the astronauts are a giant spider borrowed from TARANTULA and a cool rock monster. Oh, and the Sun is powerful enough to burn people down to a skeleton. There's a lot of fun involved here if you don't mind poor production values, laughable acting and effects, and so-bad-it's-good entertainment.
oscar-35 *Spoiler/plot- Missle to the Moon, 1958. A private pair of spaceship makers want to travel to the moon. At the last minute, government officials intervene to take over their project. A hasty lift-off with a skeleton crew of two escaped hip-ster convicts and a couple of stowaways launch and land on the moon. On the moon, they explore and find a underground all female moon civilization thats dying. The moon maidens try to steal the Earth ship to use it to escape to their safety. *Special Stars- Richard Travis, Cathy Downs, Tommy Cook, K. T. Stevens, Nina Bara.*Theme- Spaceflight exploration is simple.*Trivia/location/goofs- Funny to see regular gym lockers in a spaceship for set dressing. this film is a remake of 3-D 'Cat Women of the Moon'(Cat Women had 'The Hollywood Dancers' for the eye-candy, in this film beauty contest winners) and 'Queen of Outer Space' with Zsa Zsa Gabor. The cave monster spider was also used in many other B-Movie films. The other special note was the use of rock-men that looked like 'Gumby' attacking the heroes. Location: Red Rock Canyon- Ridgecrest, California.*Emotion- I found this film' plot to be too repetitious of several other B-Movies to care very much. I did enjoy the unique elements of this film like the rock men and the moon maidens. This film is fun to see once, but not a second time. Go see it's original films for some much deeded and added entertainment value. *Based On- 50's moon flight technology and public knowledge.
Chris Gaskin I've seen Missile to the Moon a couple of times now and found it quite enjoyable and also unintentionally funny in parts.A couple of crooks who have escaped from prison are being pursued by coppers when they decide to hide in a rocket they have come across. They are then caught by its inventor who forces them to go to the moon with him. What they are unaware of is that the inventor's friend and his lover have also come aboard. They arrive on the Moon and come across several strange things including diamonds, a cheap looking giant spider, some rather strange looking rock men and, best of all, a group of beautiful young ladies who are living on the moon. After one of the group is hypnotised by the leader of the group so she can marry him, he manages to escape and they head back to the ship but not before one of the prisoners is roasted to death by the intense heat of the sun.Missile to the Moon is more or less a remake to Cat Women of the Moon, which was made in 1953.The cast includes Richard Travis (Mesa of Lost Women), Cathy Downs (The Amazing Colossal Man, The Phantom From 10,000 Leagues) and Gary Clarke (How to Make A Monster).This is a must for all B-movie fanatics. Great fun.Rating: 3 stars out of 5.
rg mccreary (bwanabe) Five people--including a youthful pair of criminal escapees--blast off for the moon. But one of the five--the spaceship's designer--goes through his four pages of script a little too quickly and expires mid- journey. Trading their less than authentic moon rocket jumpsuits for even less authentic zero-gravity apparel, the surviving four narrowly escape ridiculously sluggard rock creatures on their way to b-movie sci-fi cave #26a where, after finding a burning torch and removing their oxygen masks, they are overcome by sleeping gas (aka smoke).They fall awake on set "2" which, for this movie, has been transformed from a low-budget b-movie throne room into a... low budget b-movie throne room. Enter the Queen--excuse me the Lido. And after her the girls: Miss Nomer, Miss Treated, Miss Understood and Miss Shapen... you get the picture. And of course Alpha, played by Miss Congeniality.Right here this b&w non-classic goes colour: Green with envy and seeing red, the lady who played Barbara Billingsley on "Leave it to Beaver" (here the token earth woman) gives a black-hearted Alpha the wedding bell blues. But backstabbing (literally) Alpha isn't about to give up Barbara's man without a fight--or in this case sentence of death, which was probably easier to write into the screenplay. And so Barbara is sent to the cave to face execution by spider-puppet. They must have shot this thing on a Friday as the guy who played Jack Web is conveniently on set to cut the spider-puppet's strings in plenty of time to effect the leading lady's rescue. (How did I not see that coming?) Don't expect the guy who played Frankie Avalon in "Bikini Bleach" to be in the sequel for, while trying to escape with a pair of kfc buckets filled with rock candy diamonds, his last scene has him struggling with the problem of deciding whether to drop his diamonds and escape with his life or to perish in a most horrific manner. A hormone-raging dropout with a natural affinity for stealing cars, he does exactly what any good 1958 audience would expect him to do and unwisely elects to die for the benefit of intelligent movie go-ers everywhere. Sunlight roasts off his flesh and pomade both; though perhaps not to any degree of loss, as his bad-to-the-bone skeleton clearly shows the carefully inked markings mapped for cranial dissection at Hollywood med school, and I am confident he went on to further b-movie work once this thing was in the can. Perhaps even as the notorious sword-fighting skeleton of "Seventh Voyage of Sinbad" fame. Now THAT was a movie! I'm a sucker for b-grade sci-fi, and "Missile" earns three lollipops.