The British launch the world's first orbital vehicle. Their military sends a super-bomb along, which goes wrong and threatens the crew and a stowaway.
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Title: Satellite in the Sky (1956)
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Cast
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| Kieron Moore | ... | Commander Michael Hayden | |
| Lois Maxwell | ... | Kim Hamilton | |
| Donald Wolfit | ... | Professor Merrity | |
| Bryan Forbes | ... | Jimmy Wheeler | |
| Jimmy Hanley | ... | Larry Noble | |
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Barry Keegan | ... | Lefty Blake |
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Donald Gray | ... | Captain Ross |
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Thea Gregory | ... | Barbara Noble |
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Shirley Lawrence | ... | Ellen |
| Alan Gifford | ... | Colonel Galloway | |
| Walter Hudd | ... | Professor Blandford | |
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Peter Neil | ... | Tony |
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Ryck Rydon | ... | Reporter (as Rick Rydon) |
| Ronan O'Casey | ... | Reporter | |
| Robert O'Neil | ... | Reporter | |
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A crew of astronauts, including a scientist and a reporter, launch from England into outer space on a rocket which can serve as a satellite. Their mission is to test a new tritonium bomb, but after the bomb fails to repel itself from the ship, the crew has only a matter of hours to defuse or destroy the weapon before it explodes. Written by Marty McKee <mailto:mmckee@soltec.net>
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Cmdr. Michael Haydon: Well, then we'll know... at least the designers will know... that the fuel or the design wasn't perfect.
Kim Hamilton: Some people find it impossible to be quite so impersonal, Commander. If I may be personal, I'm glad I'm not your wife.
Cmdr. Michael Haydon: And if I may be personal, so am I.
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Lois Maxwell, who plays the feisty female reporter, is best known as Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond films. Her macho male lead, Kieron Moore, played the bully in a small Irish town in Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959). See more »Goofs
When Haydon's airplane flies over the base, he gives his altitude as 9,000 feet, but is obviously much lower than that. See more »Quotes
Kim Hamilton: Well, what if the STARDUST blows up, as she probably will?Cmdr. Michael Haydon: Well, then we'll know... at least the designers will know... that the fuel or the design wasn't perfect.
Kim Hamilton: Some people find it impossible to be quite so impersonal, Commander. If I may be personal, I'm glad I'm not your wife.
Cmdr. Michael Haydon: And if I may be personal, so am I.
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Country:
UKRelease Date:
21 July 1956 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Aya seyahat See more »Company Credits
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This was the first 1950's British science fiction intended to be a major item. The film is in color and cinemascope, has decent special effects and production values and the film takes its subject matter seriously; space travel and nuclear testing. When this film was released in the United States by Warner Brothers in 1956, it was marketed as a major item with a big ad campaign. However, most reviews at the time were not favorable, and the film did not do as well at the box office as Warner Brothers had anticipated. The film rarely turned up on television and remains largely unknown to all but 1950's science fiction completests.
It is no wonder really. Despite good production values, a good budget, some interesting art direction and a serious attitude taken by the films makers, SATELLITE IN THE SKY is mostly too talky and static to interest most mainstream movie viewers. The film is overall not bad, but it fails to generate little more than mild interest and at best moderate enthusiasm.
Note: When this film first came out, several reviewers remarked favorably about the films color process and use of cinemascope. I missed this film when it used turn up occasionally on late night T.V. back in seventies. I only recently saw this film for the first time on video, and wouldn't you know it, all video copies are in black and white and in incorrect aspect ratio!! I would really would like to see a color and letter boxed video version.