Missile to the Moon | |
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Directed by | Richard E. Cunha |
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Produced by | Marc Frederic |
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Cinematography | Meredith M. Nicholson |
Edited by | Everett Dodd |
Music by | Nicholas Carras |
Production company | Layton Film Productions |
Distributed by | Astor Pictures |
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Running time | 78 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $65,000 |
Missile to the Moon is a 1958 independently made American black-and-white science fiction film drama, produced by Marc Frederic, directed by Richard E. Cunha,[1] that stars Richard Travis, Cathy Downs, and K. T. Stevens.[2] The film was distributed by Astor Pictures and is a remake of an earlier Astor Pictures-distributed film, Cat-Women of the Moon (1953). Missile to the Moon was released in late 1958 as a double feature with Cunha's Frankenstein's Daughter.
A spaceship blasts off from Earth with five aboard, but one of them is secretly a Moon man returning home. He dies by accident during the trip to Luna. What the remaining four find waiting for them when they arrive on the Moon is well beyond their expectations: huge rock creatures, giant lunar spiders, and a cave-dwelling civilization made up of beautiful women.[3]