Three men are assigned by the Office of Scientific Investigation to man rocket ships to outer space and attempt to capture a meteor.Three men are assigned by the Office of Scientific Investigation to man rocket ships to outer space and attempt to capture a meteor.Three men are assigned by the Office of Scientific Investigation to man rocket ships to outer space and attempt to capture a meteor.
- Dr. Sidney K. Fuller
- (as James K. Best)
- Research Laboratory Manager
- (uncredited)
- Susan's Photographer
- (uncredited)
- Archibald Guiness
- (uncredited)
- Directors
- Richard Carlson
- Herbert L. Strock(uncredited)
- Writers
- Curt Siodmak
- Ivan Tors(uncredited)
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- TriviaPhotographed in color by Color Corporation Of America; when sold to television in 1956, most prints and broadcasts were in black & white. The 35MM color master used for the DVD release, occasionally shown on Turner Classic Movies, shows a lot of wear and a few splices, particularly at the reel changes, but may be the best that has survived.
- GoofsIn the film's first minutes, two crews race through the desert to recover equipment from a rocket that has landed. One is in a truck pulling a trailer, and the trailer has a big black box in it. When the truck and trailer runs over plants and bumps, the trailer bounces around, and we see in a quick shot that the big black box is thrown out of the trailer. But it is still in the trailer in later shots, such as on reaching the landing site. Also a vehicle carrying electronic equipment that more than likely contained vacuum tubes before the invention of solid-state electrics would not be driven in such a reckless manner with unsecured cargo in the trailer.
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Kitty White: [Opening song lyrics sung by Kitty White, though IMDb's quote section would not let me add her as "other" in the quotes section] "Riders to the Stars - that is what we are every time we kiss in the night. Jupiter and Mars aren't very far anytime your holding me tight. Your embrace changed time and place. Hurled in space were we, and now we're Whirling past the moon, far away from Earth just the way I dreamed love would be. Riders to the stars are we."
- ConnectionsFeatured in Weirdo with Wadman: Riders to the Stars (1964)
Thanks to TCM, I've had a chance to see it again, and while it's undeniably leisurely-paced in parts and suffers from a tragically inadequate effects budget, it's still a far better film than I remembered. However, much of my appreciation comes from the fact that it tickles my nostalgia nerve and has some nifty stock footage from the early days of America's space program, which at the time mostly consisted of shooting off captured V-2s out at White Sands. So viewers who don't have the fond memories of and/or historical interest in this era of the Space Age will probably find this pretty dull stuff.
The writer -- Curt Siodmak -- deserves high marks for doing his research on the subject, thereby making the section of the film depicting the painstaking selection process and rigorous training of our trio of astronauts remarkably prescient at times. The science behind their dangerous mission isn't so well-thought-out, but it provides for some minor thrills as the astronauts attempt to chase down and retrieve a meteor from low Earth orbit.
Worth watching, especially if you consider it as a companion film and precursor to "Gog", the third and final entry in the O.S.I. series.
- henri sauvage
- Apr 24, 2012
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