A team of astronauts on an earth orbiting space station are picked to journey to Mars. They include Col. Merritt (Walter Brooke) and his son Captain Barney Merritt (Eric Fleming), a bullheaded Sgt (Mickey Shaughnessy) and the regulation stereotype crew. Everything is runningsmoothly until they near Mars, when the Col begins to act strangely, spouting biblical rhetoric about the sacrelidge of man in space. This is obviously not going to end well...
Produced by George Pal this is another attempt to give a realistic impression of space station life. But due to some obvious clunky special effects, alongside a weak script, meant the film generally got panned and Pal decided against any more Sci-fi films for a while, looking
elsewhere for inspiration. Looked on now, it has a certain retro charm, as long as you can get passed the obvious bible thumping.
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