Cycle B-movie - Destination Moon (1950)

YEAR: 1950



RUNING TIME: 92 Min.



COUNTRY:





DIRECTED BY: Irving Pichel.



WRITING CREDIT: Alford Van Ronkel, Robert A. Heinlein, James O'Hanlon (Novel: Robert A. Heinlein).



MUSIC: Leith Stevens.



SPECIAL EFFECTS: Lee Zavitz.



CINEMATOGRAPHY: Lionel Lindon (B&W).







CAST: John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers, Dick Wesson, Erin O'Brien-Moore...



PRODUCER: Eagle-Lion Films.



IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042393/




SINOPSIS: Destination Moon was the first major science-fiction film produced in the United States, and won the Academy Award for Best Special Effects (Lee Zavitz). The noted science-fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein contributed significantly to the script and invented many of the special effects. He also published, about the same time as the release of the film, Destination Moon, a short story of the same name that was based on the screenplay. Rather than a drama, the film more closely resembles a documentary or a propaganda piece, and it was promoted through an unprecedented onslaught of publicity in the print media. Seven years before Sputnik, the movie clearly spells out a rationale for the space race: the bad guys (clearly the communists) are sabotaging the American space project, and if we don't beat them to the moon, they'll make a base there to drop bombs on us, and take over the world.



FORMAT (PAL O NTSC): Pal



LANGUAGES: Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish, Dolby Digital Estéreo English



SUBT═TLES: None in the original one.





IMAGE: Letterbox , 4:3 B/N



EXTRAS: Interactive menus, direct Access to scenes,artistic file, technic file, basic sci-fi filmography, trailer of the O.V



FORMATO: DVD5 => DVD5



COMPRESSION: Without Compression



NOTE: Include covers



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