"Thank goodness, many years ago, I had a preceptor, for whom my admiration has never died, and he had a favorite saying, one that I trust I try to live by. "There is - in world affairs - a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly." "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." "For history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid." Inaugural Address, Washington, DC, 1/20/53 "Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America." Homecoming Speech, Abilene, Kansas, 6/22/45 It isn't going to please many but I think it should be very entertaining for fans of Golden Age sci-fi movies."The proudest thing I can claim is that I am from Abilene." Some scenes were added in the '70s to replace stock footage used in the original. The sets aren't comparable to the higher budgeted Destination Moon, which was released a month after this, but they're nice in their own way. It's full of what would later be clichés of the genre and it's all very modest and even cheap in some ways. This character type made the transition from those earlier war films into science fiction films in the '50s. A staple of many World War II films was a character who was either from Brooklyn or Texas and always bragged about it. Noah Beery is the obligatory character who talks about being from Texas all the time. Every scene he's putting the moves on her, no matter what danger they're in. Bridges' horndog character seems to have only joined the mission to get in Massen's pants. She's all business until he-man Lloyd Bridges thaws her out. Osa Massen is the sole female on board the flight. Pioneering sci-fi film about the first manned space flight to the moon that drifts off course and heads to Mars! The cast is good, with classy John Emery the standout as the mission leader.
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