robertguttman It is curious how entertaining bad 1950s science-fiction movies can be. The cheesy production values, the absurd story lines, the ridiculous scientific details and the bad acting somehow all combine to make them a lot of fun to watch. "Missile to the Moon" is a prime example. A couple of punks break out of prison and manage to take refuge in a space ship, despite the fact that the ship is surrounded by an electrified fence. Rather than turn the two creeps in to the cops, the designer of the ship impresses the two escaped convicts to serve as his crew. After teaching them everything they need to know about how to fly a rocket ship in about five minutes, the three take off for the moon. However, not before two stowaways manage to join them aboard the ship, namely the designer's assistant and his girlfriend.Once on the moon, the intrepid astronauts find that it is a great deal different from what terrestrial scientists now know to be the case. The moon is inhabited by "rock monsters" with an instinct to pursue humans (albeit very slowly), giant marionette spiders and a community of sex-starved, green-skinned women ruled by a blind queen referred to as "The Ledo". Most of the moon-bimbos are played by an assortment of winners of minor beauty contests who were probably told that being in this movie would be a great way to break into the movies (it wasn't). There were conspiracy theorists who believed at the time, and some who still believe, that Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong never really landed on the moon in 1969, and that the whole moon landing was nothing but an elaborate government hoax. Perhaps the fact that Aldrin and Armstrong never mentioned anything about encountering "rock monsters", giant marionette spiders or green space-broads on the moon is proof that those conspiracy theorists were right after all.

dougdoepke No need to recap the storyline. I think it was put together by cartoonists on a barstool.At least this mess is fun to look at. Shapely blue women, big hairy spiders, humanoid rock men, all in candy box colors, especially the goofy court scenes. Looks like production spent 90% on sets and costumes, 9% on the cast (mostly sexy amateurs), and 1% on script. Now if someone would please wake up actor Travis. He's got all the liveliness of a highschool boy flunking geometry. Good thing for switchblade delinquent Tommy Cook who's somewhat motivated. And see if you agree—actor Clarke as good boy Lon looks like a skinny James Dean. Anyway, I can only imagine what pro's like Travis, Downs, and Stevens thought when they read the script. No wonder Travis acts like a condemned man.I'm still a bit puzzled about production versus script. Surely the producers expected only laughs and lust from the storyline, so why go extra expense for the fancy settings. On the whole, the latter are pretty well outfitted compared to the plot. On the other hand, drive-in contemporary Roger Corman knew how to combine the two into campy fun. Unfortunately, the results here cause more head-scratching than campy laughs. Meanwhile, color me blue, stamp my ticket, and wish me luck. I'm on my way to meet the moon maidens.(In passing-- If I recall correctly, The Lido was a fancy Paris nightclub that featured a parade of sexy show girls, which sort of fits here.)

MartinHafer This film involves five humans who go on a flight to the moon. Once there, they find a planet of nothing but women--angry, PMS-enraged women! And, to make matters worse, there are giant rock creatures, spiders and two of the crew members are crooks.Wow...you know this is going to be a terrible film when they are ripping off CAT-WOMEN OF THE MOON--especially since CAT-WOMEN is one of the worst films of the early 1950s! Now I don't know if MISSILE TO THE MOON was announced as a remake, but it certainly was and the number of similarities are too many to be a coincidence. Both involve a rocket trip to the moon. Both have a crew member who actually is being controlled by the Moon folks. Both moons are inhabited by super-unattractive "beauty queens" in spandex. Both have really stupid giant plastic spiders in the caves. Both have crews whose space suits are stolen. And, these are only a few of the similarities. So, they remade a bad movie and in a way that is no better than the wretched original! Wow, that has "must-see" written all over it!!One of the other horrible touches are a skeleton that clearly is from a science classroom (with the top of the skull sawed off)--even though it's supposed to belong to one of the dead crew members who you see die before your eyes. Another brilliant touch was using three completely different rockets as well as normal Earth gravity on the moon and inside the space ship throughout the trip. Nice attention to details, folks!Overall, this is a terrible film that only lovers of schlock cinema will enjoy. Others will probably find it pretty tedious.

Michael O'Keefe Dirk Green(Michael Whalen)wants to keep the spaceship he built to himself without any interference from the government. When he finds a couple of escaped convicts hiding in the craft, he forces Lon(Gary Clarke)and Gene(Tommy Cook)to become his crew and it is all systems go. The missile is launched and found aboard are Dirk's science technician and partner Steve(Richard Travis)and his fiancée June(Cathy Down). Before the ship even lands on the moon, Dirk is accidentally killed and nobody else knows that he is actually a previous inhabitant of the moon trying to get back. The adventurers land on the moon and find a dying civilization of beautiful women under the rule of The Lido(K.T. Stevens). There are also some "rock monsters" that look like man-size stone Gumbies. Thus this low budget affair has very primitive special effects and is no showcase for recognizable acting abilities.