Rocketship X-M
"The screen's first story of man's conquest of space!"
4.8•June 2, 1950•1h 17m
Storyline
Astronauts blast off to explore the moon on Rocketship X-M or "Rocketship eXploration Moon". A spacecraft malfunction and some fuel miscalculations cause them to end up landing on Mars. On Mars, evidence of a once powerful civilization is found. The scientists determined that an atomic war destroyed most of the Martians. Those that survived reverted to a caveman like existence.
Director
Writers
Top Cast
Lloyd Bridges
Colonel Floyd Graham
Osa Massen
Dr. Lisa Van Horn
John Emery
Dr. Karl Eckstrom
Noah Beery Jr.
Major William Corrigan
Hugh O'Brian
Harry Chamberlain
Morris Ankrum
Dr. Ralph Fleming
Patrick Aherne
Reporter #1
Sherry Moreland
Martian girl
John Dutra
Physician
Kathy Marlowe
Reporter
Tom Coleman
Reporter (uncredited)
James Conaty
Doctor Taking Lisa's Blood Pressure (uncredited)
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CinemaSerf
December 27, 2022
5 / 10
It's just a bit too derivative, this film. Lloyd Bridges and his team of astronauts set off for the moon, but en route they are thrown off course and end up landing on Mars. It doesn't take them long to discovers the remains of a substantial civiliation on the surface - a society that looks as if it met a pretty violent end. Further exploration reveals that there are survivors - but are they friend or foe, and can they help our travellers get home? I was never an huge fan of Bridges, and here he and his perfect coiffure go through the motions with little engagement as, to be fair, do the contributions from the dreadfully wooden Osa Massen ("Lisa van Horn") and the usually more charismatic Noah Beery Jnr, ("Corrigan"). It is short, the pace is not bad and there is enough of a story to keep it watchable, it is just the acting, effects and the dialogue that are pretty unremarkable.
