Rocketship X-M (1950)

4.8 ? Jun 02, 1950 1h 17m

Add to Watchlist

Overview

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.

Overview

Genres

Science Fiction Adventure

Release Date

June 02, 1950

Rating

4.8 /10

Runtime

1h 17m

Official Trailer from YouTube

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)

Sam Harris

Reporter at Press Briefing (uncredited)

Judd Holdren

Reporter #3 (uncredited)

Stuart Holmes

Reporter (uncredited)

Barry Norton

Reporter (uncredited)

Cosmo Sardo

Reporter (uncredited)

Bert Stevens

Reporter (uncredited)

CinemaSerf

5.0/10

Dec 27, 2022

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.

Read full review