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Conquest of Space (1955)

APPROVED 81 min  -  Sci-Fi  -   20 April 1955 (USA)
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A team of American astronauts leave their space station on the first mission to Mars, but the captain's religious beliefs may get in the way.

Director:

Byron Haskin

Writers:

Chesley Bonestell (book), Willy Ley (book), and 5 more credits »
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Cast

Complete credited cast:
Walter Brooke Walter Brooke ...
Gen. Samuel T. Merritt
Eric Fleming Eric Fleming ...
Capt. Barney Merritt
Mickey Shaughnessy Mickey Shaughnessy ...
Sgt. Mahoney
Phil Foster ...
Jackie Siegle
William Redfield William Redfield ...
Roy Cooper
William Hopper William Hopper ...
Dr. George Fenton
Benson Fong Benson Fong ...
Imoto
Ross Martin Ross Martin ...
Andre Fodor
Vito Scotti Vito Scotti ...
Sanella
John Dennis John Dennis ...
Donkersgoed
Michael Fox Michael Fox ...
Elsbach
Joan Shawlee Joan Shawlee ...
Rosie McCann
Iphigenie Castiglioni Iphigenie Castiglioni ...
Mrs. Heinz Fodor
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Storyline

A team of American astronauts leave their space station on the first mission to Mars, but the captain's religious beliefs may get in the way.

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Genres:

Sci-Fi

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

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Also Known As:

Mars Project See more »

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paramount Pictures See more »
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Technical Specs

Runtime:

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1
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Trivia

After a dispute over how to depict the surface of Mars, Chesley Bonestell claimed never to have seen the final movie. See more »

Goofs

Plot holes: The astronauts all wear spacesuits on Mars, yet take off their gloves and handle the Martian soil bare-handed, exposure which would in reality destroy their hands and probably kill them. See more »

Quotes

[first lines]
Narrator: This is a story of tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, when men have built a station in space, constructed in the form of a great wheel, and set a thousand miles out from the Earth, fixed by gravity, and turning about the world every two hours, serving a double purpose: an observation post in the heavens, and a place where a spaceship can be assembled, and then launched to explore other planets, and the vast universe itself, in the last and greatest adventure of mankind, the plunge toward the...
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Connections

Referenced in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) See more »