Project Moon Base (1953)
September 4, 1953Release Date
Project Moon Base (1953)
September 4, 1953Release Date
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Where to Watch.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Donna Martell
Colonel Briteis
Hayden Rorke
General Greene
Ross Ford
Major Moore
Larry Johns
Doctor Wernher
Herb Jacobs
Mr. Roundtree
Barbara Morrison
Polly Prattles
Ernestine Barrier
Madame President
James Craven
Commodore Carlson
John Hedloe
Adjutant
Peter Adams
Captain Carmody
Robert Karnes
Sam
Richard Talmadge
Director
John Straub
Chaplain
Charles Keane
Spacom Operator
Robert A. Heinlein
Writer
Jack Seaman
Writer
John Tomecko
Blockhouse Operator
Robert Paltz
Bellboy
Herschel Burke Gilbert
Composer
William C. Thompson
Cinematographer
Roland Gross
Editor
Jerome Pycha Jr.
ProductionDesigner
Harry Thomas
Makeup Artist
Joel Moss
Sound
Leonard J. Shapiro
Assistant Director
William Randall
Sound
Karl H. Johnson
Production Manager / Associate Producer
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Project Moonbase (a.k.a. Project Moon Base) is a 1953 independently made black-and-white science fiction film, produced by Jack Seaman, directed by Richard Talmadge, and starring Ross Ford, Donna Martell, Hayden Rorke. It co-stars Larry Johns, Herb Jacobs, Barbara Morrison, and Ernestine Barrier. The film was distributed by Lippert Pictures and is based on a story by Robert A. Heinlein, who shares the screenwriting credit with producer Jack Seaman.
Project Moonbase is unusual for its time in attempting to portray space travel in a "realistic" manner and for depicting a future in which women hold positions of authority and responsibility equal to men; as an example, the President of the United States is a woman. However, Colonel Breiteis, the female commander of the moon mission, is shown be picked for her gender, generally shown as a member of a "weaker sex", and even threatened with a spanking by her superior officer.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 featured the film in January 1990 as an episode during its first season on The Comedy Channel. It had been originally broadcast in 1986 as a syndicated television episode of the Canned Film Festival.