Rocketship
X-M
Lippert, 1950, B&W, 78 min.
Occasionally,
rocketships end up getting diverted from their course. This sort
of thing happens to the bullet-shaped Rocketship Expedition Moon
(RX-M for short), which was supposed to land on the Moon; the
craft sets down on Mars instead. There, the five-person crew comes
upon the remains of a decayed Martian civilization and decides
that this is the result of an atomic war. Later, some radiation-scarred
mutants attacks the explorers and only three astronauts make it
back to the craft. They take off for Earth, bu lack of fuel causes
them to crashland. V-2 stock footage was used for the ship take-off
and in various other scenes. When producer/distributor Wade Williams
obtained the rights to this film in the late 70s, he had all the
scenes using stock footage replaced with new action, using a Tom
Sherman miniature of the original rocket model.
