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Destination Moon 1950 REMASTERED Full Vintage Science Fiction Movie
Destination Moon (a.k.a. Operation Moon) is a 1950 American Technicolor science fiction film, independently produced by George Pal and directed by Irving Pichel, that stars John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers, and Dick Wesson. The film was distributed in the United States and the United Kingdom by Eagle-Lion Classics.
Destination Moon was the first major U.S. science fiction film to deal with the practical scientific and engineering challenges of space travel and to speculate on what a crewed expedition to the Moon would look like. Famed science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein contributed to the screenplay.
The film’s premise is that private industry will mobilize, finance, and manufacture the first spacecraft to the Moon, and that the U.S. government will be forced to purchase or lease the technology to remain the dominant power in space. Different industrialists cooperate to support the private venture. In the final scene, as the crew approaches the Earth, the traditional „The End” title card heralds the dawn of the coming Space Age: „This is THE END…of the Beginning”
When their latest rocket test fails and government funding collapses, rocket scientist Dr. Charles Cargraves (Warner Anderson) and space enthusiast General Thayer (Tom Powers) enlist the aid of aircraft magnate Jim Barnes (John Archer). With the necessary millions raised privately from a group of patriotic U.S. industrialists, Cargraves, Warner, and Barnes build an advanced single-stage-to-orbit atomic powered spaceship, named Luna, at their desert manufacturing and launch facility. The project is soon threatened by a ginned-up public uproar over „radiation safety” but the three circumvent legal efforts to stop their expedition by launching the world’s first Moon mission ahead of schedule. As a result, they must quickly substitute Joe Sweeney (Dick Wesson) as their expedition’s radar and radio operator, a replacement for Brown (Ted Warde), now in the hospital with appendicitis.
En route to the Moon they are forced to spacewalk outside. They stay firmly attached to Luna with their magnetic boots so they can easily walk up to and free the frozen piloting radar antenna that the inexperienced Sweeney innocently greased before launch. In the process, Cargraves becomes untethered in free fall and is lost overboard. He is retrieved by Barnes, who cleverly uses a large oxygen cylinder with nozzle, retrieved by General Thayer, as an improvised propulsion unit to return them to Luna.
After achieving lunar orbit, the crew begins the complex landing procedure, but expedition leader Barnes uses too much fuel during the descent. Safely on the Moon, they explore the lunar surface and describe by radio their view of the Earth, as contrasted against the star-filled lunar night sky. Using forced perspective, Barnes photographs Sweeney pretending to „hold up” the Earth like a modern Atlas. Events take a serious turn for the crew when they realize that with their limited remaining fuel they must lighten Luna in order to achieve lunar escape velocity.
No matter how much non-critical equipment they strip out and discard on the lunar surface, the hard numbers radioed from Earth continue to point to one conclusion: One of them will have to remain on the Moon if the others are to safely return to Earth. With time running out for their return launch window, the crew continues to engineer their way home. They finally jettison the ship’s radio, losing contact with Earth. In addition, a spent oxygen cylinder is used as a tethered, suspended weight to pull their sole remaining space suit outside through the open airlock, which is then remotely closed and resealed. With the critical take-off weight finally achieved, and with all her crew safely aboard, Luna blasts off from the Moon for home.
Cast
John Archer as Jim Barnes
Warner Anderson as Dr. Charles Cargraves
Tom Powers as General Thayer
Dick Wesson as Joe Sweeney
Erin O’Brien-Moore as Emily Cargraves
Franklyn Farnum as Factory Worker (uncredited)
Everett Glass as Mr. La Porte (uncredited)
Knox Manning as Knox Manning (uncredited)
Kenner G. Kemp as Businessman at meeting (uncredited)
Mike Miller as Man (uncredited)
Irving Pichel as Narrator of Woody Woodpecker Cartoon (uncredited)
Cosmo Sardo as Businessman at Meeting (uncredited)
Bert Stevens as Businessman at meeting (uncredited)
Ted Warde as Brown (uncredited)
Grace Stafford as Woody Woodpecker (voice) (uncredited)
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I think, that if poland hadn't done to the anexed german people what they did, and there was no "sponsership" of the second world war by a certain religion, then (eaisily) the germans would have been the first country to set foot on the moon…….
These V2 rocket ship clips very cleanly prove that, and "operation paperclip" used german scientists to invent the rockets in the early apolo missions…….. 🙂 lol……
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A bit far fetched – the rocket is financed by private industry, built in Texas, authority tries to halt the launch on environmental grounds- hang on- isn't this the SpaceX Starship story ?
its a better movie than the one nasa put out in 1969 ( plus sequels)!
No doubt an entertaining movie and l love all the 50 s SciFi and monster movies but the idea that Dick Wesson could be an astronaut is ludicrous. No training , didn't know what zero gravity was , complains of stomach ailments and fails to read operating procedures. Just a disaster waiting to happen , that coupled with an ex general in his late 50s or older being certified is beyond belief. That's Hollywood for you , although l for one never said they where in anyway intelligent.Imagine convincing leading Capitalists to invest with a woody Woodpecker cartoon. Yep , even Woody had more on the ball than Hollywood producers and writers.
Brooklyn comic to moon
Dated by today standard but groundbreaking for the time
Concur this is an underrated sci-fi film. The realism concerning weight requirements and just the overall technology aspect was pretty impressive for 1950. It accurately predicted private enterprises entering into space travel now realized by Elon Musk's Space-X and others
The script is actually decent except for a few hokey scenes near the end. The pioneering spirit of Americans was on full display by the characters; something we've largely lost today
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For fans of moon inhabitation the Chinese call our planet – their planet – Dìqiú. Of course everyone knows British narration rules the air/space ways. Dìqiú. To say that aloud requires two tongues.
YOU CUT THE WHOLE FRONT OFF, KIDDO
The countdown man at the beginning musta been smokin' meth. He did a 20 second countdown in 14 seconds.
Remastered? I have it on VHS and it’s a better picture than this.
Boring
I saw this when I was about nine years old. I can remember the Colonial Theater in Augusta, Maine. If course, I couldn't tell you what I did yesterday.
Love it
I saw this when it came out in 1950. Great film, for its time with a few factual inaccuracies*, but forgivable considering the era.
*The ship was made from titanium, which is non-magnetic so their magnet shows wouldn't have stuck to the hull.
Earth base apologized for a 3-second transmission delay due to the distance, but then carried on communications without any time delays.
The oxygen tank used as a rescue rocket disappeared after everyone gathered back on the ship's hull.
The pile of material removed from the ship to lighten it seemed to be quite a bit larger than the entire crew quarters and working space.
I'm surprised their trip didn't include encountering a meteor shower, which seems to be de rigeuer for the genre.
When I was 9 years old, I had a record, a 33 rpm of "Destination Moon." Sadly to sy it's 71 years later now and of course it was lost to my childhood. I enjoyed seeing this film. I had seen it once before and thanks YouTube for hosting it.
Nice V2 launch in the beginning
This was actually quite a good movie for 1950 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Can someone tell me what this is at 18:57 ? Is it some kind of mechanical computer?
The greatest film in cinema history? Curse of the Swine-Beast! Zombies! Aliens! Monsters! Incest! Cross-dressing! Atomic bombs!
Considering this film was made almost 20 years before the first moon landing the realism is quite astonishing. Great movie, thanks for uploading it.
Why do the rocket crews in these movies always include some mook from New York?