Conquest of Space
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Movie Reviews of Conquest of Space
Movie Review: Tangerine Sands and Black Volcanic Boulders
Summary: 4 Stars
Space station built! What next? Go to the Moon or to Mars? In this 1954 movie, it's Mars first!
Spaceship One has three components: a large sweptback wing, an Earth-return rocket mounted on top, and an Earth-to-Mars booster attached to its end. Crew capacity: 5.
Mission: Fire Earth-to-Mars booster to obtain a Mars intercept trajectory. Before entering atmosphere, eject booster, brake with wing rockets, glide to a landing, erect the return rocket, and begin a resource survey. On return day, launch into Earth intercept trajectory. Upon nearing Earth, brake into the station's orbit.
General Merritt: command pilot. Responsible for the construction of the space station and the spaceship.
Captain Merritt: copilot. The general's son wanted to go back to Earth, but the Mars mission changed his mind.
Sergeants Imoto (geologist), Siegle (electronics specialist), and Fodor (medical specialist) complete the crew.
Sergeant Major Mahoney: responsible for crew selectees. Devoted to General Merritt. Concerned about dental hygiene.
Warning! Do not float from the shuttle to the station; you will probably miss. Do not remove gloves on Mars; you will lose consciousness. Do not fill a water tank with Martian snow; it may be carbon dioxide. And, most importantly, do not board a Mars bound spaceship if anyone shows signs of space fatigue. Such a person could be a grave risk to ship and crew.
In summary, Conquest of Space is an excellent movie. It is pure science fiction with reasonable extrapolations of science and technology into the future of 1954. The sets, special effects, and acting are excellent.
Picture: excellent. No cropping. Sound: excellent. Volume: typical.
If you prefer to go to the Moon first, check out: Project Moonbase Project Moonbase .
Movie Review: Conquest conquests!
Summary: 4 Stars
This film used to play all the time on tv when I was young, and I even saw it in a movie theatre. I was quite pleased to get a good copy to replace the beat up non-letterboxed videotape I had. This film was an obvious influence on Kubrick for 2001, though not one book on Stanley or 2001 has ever mentioned this. The plots in both films are quite similar, down to a death in space, a crewmember going mad, and the space station. I think this speaks more to film critics ignorance of pop culture than anything else. For some reason, this film gets short shrift even in books on sf or George Pal, and personally, I think it's one of his best films. Lovely sound track too.Movie Review: Sci-Fi
Summary: 4 Stars
When I was a kid they used to run Sci-Fi and horror movies on Saturday mornings. Some were truly excellent such as The Thing, or The Day The Earth Stood Still. Other times, they were frankly pretty cheesy. Still, when your a kid that's part of their charm. The special effects here weren't half bad for it's day. I think that this film should be in every serious sci-fi buffs collection. Speaking of cult classics, here's a hot tip: Amazon has "An Occurence At Owl Creek Bridge"!! You haven't seen it? It's the one short film that will haunt you for life. SEE IT!Movie Review: CLASSIC UNDERRATED '50'S SPACE OPERA
Summary: 4 Stars
This film is worth seeing and getting for the ambitious realisation of the incredible Chesley Bonestell and his paintings. This is the way man might have gone to space given an unlimited budget and a ten year head start on Sputnik and Gagarin. The film is a little corny even by 1950's standards, and having the Commander of the expedition go a little loony AND ultra-religious is somewhat jarring. But I do like this film, for it is visually well-done and it is what it is: a product of it's time.Movie Review: One of the original space operas
Summary: 4 Stars
This some what dated film is a classic from its time. It makes a good follow up to "Destination Moon" The special effect are truly good for its time. The story is fun although somewhat formulaic in content. The movie tries to show a future of the people at the time. Big new technology like visual telecommunication are shown. Now this is no great thing, but look at it from the perspective of fifty years ago. That the wonder of this film, the future as it might have been.