Rocketship X-M

Rocketship X-M
Directed byKurt Neumann
Screenplay byKurt Neumann
Orville H. Hampton (additional dialogue)
Dalton Trumbo (Martian sequence, uncredited)
Produced byKurt Neumann
Murray Lerner (executive)
Robert L. Lippert (presenter)
StarringLloyd Bridges
Osa Massen
John Emery
Noah Beery Jr.
Hugh O'Brian
Morris Ankrum
CinematographyKarl Struss
Edited byHarry Gerstad
Music byFerde Grofé
Production
company
Distributed byLippert Pictures
Release date
  • May 26, 1950 (1950-05-26) (United States)
Running time
78 minutes
CountryUnited States
Budget$94,000
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Rocketship X-M (a.k.a. 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 the infamous red planet, Mars. During their time on the planet they go on to discover the remnants of a Martian civilization destroyed long ago by atomic war and now reverted to barbarism.[1]