Rocketship X-M

Rocketship X-M (1950) was the second of the American science fiction feature films of the space adventure genre begun in the post-war era, in 1950. Because expensive special effects and production value delayed the release of Destination Moon, this black-and-white film from Lippert Pictures was quickly shot (in 18 days) so as to be able to make it to the cinemas first with the story of a moon expedition that instead lands on Mars. In the original 1950 theatrical release, the Martian landscape was shown with a red tint, a device Lippert Pictures repeated the following year when the black-and-white Lost Continent (1951) added a green tint when the film's explorers arrived atop a jungle plateau. It was directed by Kurt Neumann and features...