Woman in the Moon (1929)
Directed by Fritz Lang
A scientist discovers that there's gold on the moon. He builds a rocket to fly there, but there's too much rivalry among the crew to have a successful expedition.
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And as if to highlight the nature of our globalized world, Nolan has his characters teleport across the planet between scenes, with almost every action set piece involving a vehicle of some kind: from yachts to high-speed BMWs to a cargo plane that, as it leaves its hanger, suggests the spaceship from Fritz Lang’s Woman in the Moon .
Murky both literally and figuratively, the film was shot in Berlin's Babelsberg Studios where 80-odd years ago Fritz Lang made Metropolis and Woman in the Moon, the movie that invented the countdown for a space launch.