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Conquest of Space (1955) -- 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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Chesley Bonestell (book) and
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Release Date:
20 April 1955 (USA) more
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Plot:
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. | add synopsis
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Not quite a classic, but a must for George Pal fans more (37 total)

Cast

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

Also Known As:
Mars Project
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Runtime:
81 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Fun Stuff

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Ross Martin’s film debut. more
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Revealing mistakes: When the engines are turned on during the asteroid scene, strings can be seen holding up the ship. more
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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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Referenced in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) more

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Not quite a classic, but a must for George Pal fans, 26 March 2000
Author: newfunk-2 from West Point, MS

Conquest of Space is certainly worth a look for anyone examining the more realistic (at least at the time) cinematic examinations of space exploration. The space "wheel" scenes might be viewed as primitive precursors to the station in 2001. The acting and script are typical of the era--the comic relief in particular is grating at times. But the effects are well-done, especially shots of approaching rockets viewed from space, and meteoric fragments which bombard a hapless spaceman. A minor effort next to Pal's other films of the period, but not a bad way to spend an hour and a half.

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