Here comes Christmas, lets get chilled out and some time off with repeats on the telly !
oh,,If I p...
Here comes Christmas, lets get chilled out and some time off with repeats on the telly !
oh,,If I promise to come back with an 'E', THEN REMIND ME !!, I will not be offended.Greg
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Destination Moon. ===============
At the time of its pending release this film was massively promoted claiming to portray accurately but with the twist of adventure how man will get to the Moon and stay there. Unfortunately the public didn’t want the science all they wanted was the adventure and on that point the film falls into the dreaded ‘B’ movie genre.
The film follows Charles Cargraves, a kind of Howard Hughes of his day, as he struggles to get his spaceship off of the launch pad and to the Moon. However for Charles the space races really is on and the Russians are prepared to play dirty. After several successful sabotage attempts on his rockets Charles goes for the “sneaky hide the spaceship until it’s ready to launch” ploy! It is of course very easy to hide something that big, not.
Charles gets lots of big firms and their bosses on board by showing them a by now famous or should that be infamous ‘Woody Woodpecker cartoon’. It explained is very simplistic terms take off, space, the Moon, and Gravity. The big wigs all get on board, only financially that is and Destination Moon is good to go.
I will not give you the rest of the movie lest to say there are the usual explosions, double crosses, a love interest and not so good special effects. Well it was 1950.
The science in the film is awfully dated and quite quirky and innocent looking. The plot is fairly decent but the dialogue at times is awful and corny. It was I believe nominated for an ‘Oscar’ for its special effects, blimey they must have been desperate in those days.
It really is a ‘B’ movie but enjoyable none the less, catch it if it comes on the TV but otherwise don’t go out of your way.
DVD Info: No extras on the DVD, just chapter selection. Format: Colour Language English Region: All Regions Number of discs: 1 Classification: Unrated Run Time: 92 minutes ASIN: 6305761078 Amazon Price: £2.10
Greg
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