ALL SCI-FI

[Bongopete]

I recently rewatched this for the first time in many years on Netflix.

The music that was used I thought worked quite well, and I didn't look to see, but I am assuming that the music was something from a much later period.
The only complaint I had about the cast would be that the bad guy is an American who reminded me a lot of Hitler (his hairstyle) and the scientist who was behind the mission.

The scientist really comes across as a sort of 'mad scientist' type and while I am pretty sure he wasn't there for comic relief he does do so at least twice that I was aware of (intentionally or not). One scene is while the ship is headed toward the moon, the scientist (who seems to be completely eccentric and of no use) keeps trying to open a sun shade over a ships window and fidgets about trying to do so.

The other is a scene that is tragic and I'm sure is NOT comical, but I couldn't help but find it amusing.....the scientist has discovered gold (one of his prime motivations for going to the Moon) and is trying to hide from the movie's bad guy and while he's sort of goofy running around in a moon cave after actually finding huge amounts of gold, he promptly steps out over and just falls quickly down a crevasse.

No muss, no fuss....he just steps into and *poof* exits the film. And no one from the moonship really seems to miss him.

It's a ludicrous film....should have been considered silly even when it came out. The effects for the period aren't tooooo bad, though a couple of things do raise questions.

[Rocky Jones]

I just saw this film on YouTube and found it pretty interesting. While the over dramatized plot is terribly tedious I thought the science aspects were surprisingly well thought out for a film made in the 1920s. The rocket is assembled in a huge hanger and moved on a tracked platform to the launch pad in a manner astoundingly similar to the real one used at Cape Canaveral. I have to suspect NASA designers took some ideas from this film. They also deal with weightlessness and artificial gravity in a fairly plausible way.

The landing and scenes on the Moon are pretty out there, but there wasn't a lot known about the Moon and things like atmosphere back then. At least they didn't run into some wacky lost human-like society full of people about as alien as the people from across town. I certainly wouldn't call it a "ludicrous film" at all. It's an interesting piece from it's period and has a significant place in the history science fiction.

[Bud Brewster]

I remember hearing that Hitler tried to confiscate all the prints because he thought the movie revealed too much about the potential which rockets had as weapons.

Adolf obviously didn't think it was ludicrous, either.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Bud Brewster]

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Happy 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing!
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Bud Brewster]

I've never seen this one, but from what I've heard (like Bongopete's comments above), it's certainly no Metropolis.

Good old YouTube. They have it. Here's the link. (My, my, what an age of marvels we live in. )

______ Frau im Mond - Woman in the Moon (1929)


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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)