• StatusReleased
  • Release Date1950-06-27
  • Runtime91 minutes
  • TaglineTwo years in the making!
  • Revenue5,000,000$
  • GenreScience Fiction, Adventure, Drama
  • Production
    CompaniesGeorge Pal Productions
  • Budget592,000$

Movie Overview

A team composed of an aerospace scientist, an ex-Air Force general, and an industrialist conceives 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.

Casts

John Archer

Warner Anderson

Tom Powers

Dick Wesson

Erin O'Brien-Moore