Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Inadvands Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess

oscar-35 *Spoiler/plot- Project Moon Base, 1953. Among a manned mission to the moon in 1972, a saboteur attempts to destroy the first mission and moon base.*Special Stars- Donna Martell, Hayden Rorke, Ross Ford.*Theme- Man and woman must explore the planets. *Trivia/location/goofs- B & W, pilot for TV series, titled 'Ring around the Moon'. shot in only 10 days. Watch for the space uniforms of sporty shorts, tight t-shirts and swim caps for both sexes. Listen for the exotic therimen 50's 'spacey' scene music. Sets and costume were also re-cycled for 'Cat Women on the moon' that was to be filmed only weeks later for it's production. Watch for the very trite 50's man/woman morals, cold war fears, and paternalistic manners of the commanding officers towards moon crew. Rocketship style is airplane-like with wings.*Emotion- Very fun and outdated. Best watched with liquor and no serious film cynical eyes or thoughts. Sorta charming of a bygone era.*Based On- Robert A. Heinlein story.

Panamint Watched this one day after I finished ferrying herrings and then I shook my head and thought "uh, what did I just see?" I didn't know whether it was the herring ferrying or the movie that had my head slightly addled. OK so it is not quite up to 2001 A Space Odyssey caliber. The producers were aware of their limitations, so they decided to make a charming little black and white Science Fiction film. By the way, is "charming Science Fiction" an oxymoron? They cast cute young Donna Martell as the Colonel (what the..?) and Hayden Rorke as the General (he really isn't portraying a true General type either) and the two thus strangely work well together, especially when walking sideways and upside down (trust me on this).If you want a lightweight little sci-fi trip to the moon and are ready to be entertained by Ms. Martell's charms in her space wear consisting of figure-enhancing shorts and t-shirt (trust me again- this works), watch Project Moonbase. Watch it right thru to its 1950's ahead of its time ground-breaking ending.It is what it is and doesn't care what you think. So just watch it and suspend belief especially as you view General Hayden Rorke in the shorts/t-shirt nifty ensemble (yes, you read that right- nothing wrong with your eyes!).

bkoganbing This low budget science fiction film with story by Robert Heinlein of all people was given to the American movie-going public by Lippert Pictures. Certainly a writer of Heinlein's reputation in the science fiction genre deserved better than a film by Lippert.We're into the future, 1970 to be precise and the Cold War is still going on and it's race to the moon to see who can establish a base there and point missiles at Earth. There's a US constructed and operated space station out there already and the Communists want to see it destroyed and our progress in space halted and maybe even reversed.What to do but plant a spy on board a mission to the moon who will take over the ship and destroy the space station. The spy is Larry Johns who is discovered by that tried and true device so popular during World War II, knowledge of baseball. I mean anybody who's never heard of the Brooklyn Dodgers has to be an enemy agent. And here the Dodgers never went west.As if problems with Russian spies isn't enough, pilot Donna Martell and co-pilot Ross Ford are feuding. She was jumped over him in rank and given the first orbital space flight due to her sex and Ford doesn't like it. He kind of likes her though and they do get kind of close.Even seen from a Cold War perspective I have to believe that Heinlein's story was a great deal more complex. The sets are Lippert style cheap and the story is to ridiculous to describe further. Even the Man in the Moon winced.

dbborroughs Failed TV show becomes a wildly uneven feature film about a space station and misdirected space shot becoming the first moonbase. Weird mix of comedy, drama and science fiction with more than a dash of (unnamed) anti-communist propaganda doesn't seem sure what it wants to be. Worse you don't know whether you're supposed to laugh at or with the film. The mere fact that this was an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 in its early days gives you an idea about how odd the film is. Its regrettably not very good and there's a good chance you'll end up turning the film off before the ending. Robert Heinlein was unhappy with the finished product because the TV show he worked on was changed against his wishes. Looking at the film and guessing what he actually had a hand in, I'm pretty sure that the evil "red" plot is his, I think that the film would still be quite silly- especially in retrospect. For bad film lovers or Heinlein completeists only.