After Rocketship X-M’s accidental and eventually doomed trip to the Red Planet it was up to producer Walter Mirisch over at Monogram Productions to give the public a true “Martian Experience” and with his film Flight to Mars that is just what the public got, right? Well, not quite, what the public actually received was…
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Rocketship X-M (1950) – Review
In 1950, two science fiction films sent cinemagoers venturing off into space: one was George Pal’s seminal classic Destination Moon and the other was Kurt Neumann’s Rocketship X-M, but where George Pal’s film was attempting to depict a nuts-and-bolts representation of a trip to the Moon, with at least some attempt at scientific accuracy, Neumann,…