Post by Zone Fighter on Sept 24, 2005 15:10:21 GMT -8
Destination Moon (1950)
Produced by George Pal
Based on Robert A. Heinlein's novel "Rocketship Galileo"
Starring:
John Archer - Jim Barnes
Warner Anderson - Dr. Charles Cargraves
Dick Wesson - Joe Sweeney
Tom Powers - General Thayer
Ted Warde - Brown
Erin O'Brien-Mooree - Emily Cargraves
Woody Woodpecker - self
"Industrialist John Archer, former Army general Tom Powers and research scientist Warner Anderson collaborate on a manned rocketship with an atomic engine, convinced that the nation that militarily controls the Moon controls the Earth as well. But as their work crews construct the spaceship "Luna" in the Mojave Desert insidious foreign-inspired propaganda turns the tide of public opnion against them. Realizing that the project's enemies can use the law to halt the launch, Archer, Powers, Anderson and electronics techninican Dick Wesson decide to make a hasty pre-dawn liftoff in the untested rocket - DESTINATION MOON!
Years before the first U.S. satellites were launched, and nearly two decades before Man first set foot on the lunar surface, George Pal's DESTINATION MOON depicted these future events with a high degree of technical accuracy -- and opened the floodgates of '50s Science Fiction."
-- from back of case
Jim Barnes (John Archer) uses a Woody Woodpecker cartoon to explain how rockets work to other industrailists he needs to finance the project.
Academy Award Winner: Best Special Effects
John Archer briefly voiced Lamont Cranston aka The Shadow when Bret Morrison, the longest running Lamont Cranston on radio, was ill.
I bought the DVD cheap at www.overstock.com The only bonus item is a trailer which is on the disc after the movie. The disc defaults to starting the movie.
Jim Barnes: Claim it, Doc! I'm your witness -- claim it officially.
Dr. Charles Cargraves: By the grace of God, and in the name of the United States of America, I take possession of this planet on behalf of, and for the benefit of, all mankind.
