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Rocketship X-M
Rocketship X-M (also known as Expedition Moon and originally Rocketship Expedition Moon) is a 1950 American black-and-white science-fiction film from Lippert Pictures, the first outer-space adventure of the post-World War II era. The film was produced and directed by Kurt Neumann and stars Lloyd Bridges, Osa Massen, John Emery, Noah Beery Jr., Hugh O'Brian and Morris Ankrum.
Rocketship X-M tells the story of a Moon expedition gone awry. Through a series of unforeseen events, the expedition's crew find themselves on Mars. They discover the remnants of a Martian civilization destroyed long ago by atomic war and now reverted to barbarism.
Four men and a woman blast into outer space from the White Sands Proving Ground aboard the RX-M (Rocketship Expedition-Moon) on humanity's first expedition to the Moon. Halfway there, after surviving their jettisoned and runaway first stage and a meteoroid storm, their engines suddenly quit. Recalculating fuel ratios and swapping around their multiple, different fuels corrects the problem, supposedly allowing continuing to the Moon. When the engines are reignited, the RX-M careens out of control on a rapid heading beyond the Moon. The increased acceleration causes the crew to lose consciousness. Reviving days later, they discover that they have traveled 50,000,000 miles, and the RX-M is now just 50,000 miles away from Mars.
At this point the film changes from black and white to tinted red.
The RX-M safely passes through the Martian atmosphere and lands. The next morning, the crew, clad in aviation oxygen masks because of the low oxygen levels, begin exploring the desolate surface. They find evidence of a dead but advanced Martian civilization: a metal face sculpture and, in the distance, Moderne architecture-style ruins. Their Geiger counter registers dangerous radiation levels that reveal that an atomic war occurred on Mars in the distant past.
Finding cave refuge, the crew notice in the distance the primitive human descendants of that civilization emerging from behind boulders and creeping toward them. Soon after leaving, two of the explorers encounter a blind woman who screams upon hearing their oxygen mask-distorted voices. The radiation-burned tribesmen attack, throwing large rocks and stone axes. Armed with only a revolver and a bolt-action rifle, the explorers defend themselves, purposely missing the primitives. Major Corrigan is killed by a large rock thrown by the primitives. Moments later, Dr. Eckstrom is killed by a stone axe. Navigator Chamberlain is badly injured by a large thrown rock. Colonel Graham, Dr. Van Horn and Chamberlain finally make their way back to the ship.
At this point the film changes from tinted red to black and white.
As the RX-M nears Earth, the three survivors (Graham, Van Horn and the unconscious Chamberlain) calculate that they have no fuel to make a landing. Col. Graham contacts their base and reports their dire status to Dr. Fleming. Col. Graham and Dr. Van Horn embrace as the RX-M begins its uncontrolled descent, consoling one another in their remaining moments. Through a porthole, they watch their rapid descent into Nova Scotia.
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Rocketship X-M
Rocketship X-M (also known as Expedition Moon and originally Rocketship Expedition Moon) is a 1950 American black-and-white science-fiction film from Lippert Pictures, the first outer-space adventure of the post-World War II era. The film was produced and directed by Kurt Neumann and stars Lloyd Bridges, Osa Massen, John Emery, Noah Beery Jr., Hugh O'Brian and Morris Ankrum.
Rocketship X-M tells the story of a Moon expedition gone awry. Through a series of unforeseen events, the expedition's crew find themselves on Mars. They discover the remnants of a Martian civilization destroyed long ago by atomic war and now reverted to barbarism.
Four men and a woman blast into outer space from the White Sands Proving Ground aboard the RX-M (Rocketship Expedition-Moon) on humanity's first expedition to the Moon. Halfway there, after surviving their jettisoned and runaway first stage and a meteoroid storm, their engines suddenly quit. Recalculating fuel ratios and swapping around their multiple, different fuels corrects the problem, supposedly allowing continuing to the Moon. When the engines are reignited, the RX-M careens out of control on a rapid heading beyond the Moon. The increased acceleration causes the crew to lose consciousness. Reviving days later, they discover that they have traveled 50,000,000 miles, and the RX-M is now just 50,000 miles away from Mars.
At this point the film changes from black and white to tinted red.
The RX-M safely passes through the Martian atmosphere and lands. The next morning, the crew, clad in aviation oxygen masks because of the low oxygen levels, begin exploring the desolate surface. They find evidence of a dead but advanced Martian civilization: a metal face sculpture and, in the distance, Moderne architecture-style ruins. Their Geiger counter registers dangerous radiation levels that reveal that an atomic war occurred on Mars in the distant past.
Finding cave refuge, the crew notice in the distance the primitive human descendants of that civilization emerging from behind boulders and creeping toward them. Soon after leaving, two of the explorers encounter a blind woman who screams upon hearing their oxygen mask-distorted voices. The radiation-burned tribesmen attack, throwing large rocks and stone axes. Armed with only a revolver and a bolt-action rifle, the explorers defend themselves, purposely missing the primitives. Major Corrigan is killed by a large rock thrown by the primitives. Moments later, Dr. Eckstrom is killed by a stone axe. Navigator Chamberlain is badly injured by a large thrown rock. Colonel Graham, Dr. Van Horn and Chamberlain finally make their way back to the ship.
At this point the film changes from tinted red to black and white.
As the RX-M nears Earth, the three survivors (Graham, Van Horn and the unconscious Chamberlain) calculate that they have no fuel to make a landing. Col. Graham contacts their base and reports their dire status to Dr. Fleming. Col. Graham and Dr. Van Horn embrace as the RX-M begins its uncontrolled descent, consoling one another in their remaining moments. Through a porthole, they watch their rapid descent into Nova Scotia.
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