Nude on the Moon (1961)

User Rating:

4.0/10   

Directors:

Raymond Phelan
Doris Wishman

Writers:

Raymond Phelan (writer)
Doris Wishman (writer)

Release Date:

1961 (USA)

Genre:

Fantasy | Sci-Fi

Plot:

A rich rocket scientist organizes an expedition to the moon, which they discover is inhabited by nude women.

Plot Keywords:

Moon | Astronaut | Exploitation | Nudity | Female Nudity

Cast

Marietta	...	Cathy / Moon Goddess
William Mayer	...	Professor
Lester Brown	...	Dr. Jeff Huntley
Ira Magee
Lacey Kelly
Shelby Livingston
Robert W. Kyorimee
Joyce M. Geary
Charles Allen
Evelyn Burke
Joyce Brooks
Hugh Brooks
Mary Lassey
R.C. Lassey		(as Capt. R. C. Lassey)
Robert B. Lassey

Also Known As:

Girls on the Moon (USA) (bowdlerized title)
Moon Dolls (USA) (bowdlerized title)
Nature Girls on the Moon (USA) (bowdlerized title)
Nature on the Moon (USA) (bowdlerized title)
Nudes on the Moon

Runtime:

83 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Coral Castle - 28655 S. Dixie Highway, Homestead, Florida, USA

Company:

Moon Productions

Trivia:

When Dr. Huntley and the Professor are driving to the launch site, they pass the Variety Theater, which is showing Hideout in the Sun (1960). That film, which was Doris Wishman's first movie (Nude on the Moon was her second) launched her film making career.

Goofs:

Factual errors: Scenes of the Earth from space are inverted. The continents are backward, and the Earth is rotating the wrong direction.

Quotes:

Professor: [Discussing the upcoming Moon trip] If all goes well, we'll be back in Miami in four days.
Dr. Jeff Huntley: Then you can see that movie you were telling me about.
[They pass the Variety Theater, showing "Hideout In The Sun" in "Nudarama"]
Professor: I saw it last night.

Movie Connections:

References Hideout in the Sun (1960)

Soundtrack:

Moon Doll

Lunie Nudie Cutie

Doris Wishman belongs to that category of film directors that include Russ Meyer, John Waters, Herschell Gordon Lewis and Ed Wood. These are film-makers who make movies that are simply uncategorizable. Either you get it or you don't.

In "Nude on the Moon" the moon looks suspiciously like the Coral Castle in Florida and is inhabited by a bunch of nude women with flabby bodies and bad hair. Nothing much happens. You just get to ogle. The movie is about boobies.

Never has nudity been more wholesome. This is a nudie pic for the whole family. Your children can sit and watch it and laugh right along with you. There's nothing offensive. What a great way to dispel unhealthy attitudes towards the human body! You can teach your kids not to have a snickering, lewd attitude towards their bodies and to accept them as a natural part of life. Then they'll get bored and leave to go do something else while you sit there amazed that such a wiggy movie ever got made. With a Doc Severenson theme song!

I also appreciated how this movie so accurately depicts what life is like on lunar nudist colonies. If any of you have ever been, you will understand. Don't you get sick and tired of Hollywood misrepresenting nudity in outer space? I do.