Film · Drama, Adventure, Science Fiction
Destination Moon (1950)
★ 5.9 · 107 votes1 h 31 minDrama, Adventure, Science Fiction1950
Two years in the making!
A team composed of an aerospace scientist, an ex-Air Force general, and an industrialist conceives an ambitious plan to land Americans on the moon. From their base in the Mojave Desert, they construct and successfully launch a spacecraft named "Luna" that contains a cargo of four astronauts. But a critical miscalculation of needed power to escape the moon's gravitational pull may put the astronauts' lives in danger.
- Director
- Irving Pichel
- Writers
- Alford Van Ronkel, Robert A. Heinlein, James O'Hanlon
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Release date
- June 27, 1950
Cast
John ArcherJim Barnes
Warner AndersonDr. Charles Cargraves
Tom PowersGeneral Thayer
Dick WessonJoe Sweeney
Erin O'Brien-MooreEmily Cargraves
Steve CarruthersBusinessman at Meeting (uncredited)
Franklyn FarnumFactory Worker (uncredited)
Jack GarganBusinessman at Meeting (uncredited)
Everett GlassMr. La Porte (uncredited)
Kenner G. KempBusinessman at Meeting (uncredited)
Knox ManningHimself (uncredited)- Mike MillerUndetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Irving PichelOff Screen Narrator of Woody Woodpecker Cartoon (voice) (uncredited)
Cosmo SardoBusinessman at Meeting (uncredited)
Grace StaffordWoody Woodpecker (voice) (uncredited)- Bert StevensBusinessman at Meeting (uncredited)
- Ted WardeBrown (uncredited)
