Rocketship X-M (1950)
Directed by Kurt Neumann
Astronauts blast off to explore the moon on Rocketship X-M or "Rocketship eXploration Moon". A spacecraft malfunction and some fuel miscalculations cause them to end up landing on Mars. On Mars, evidence of a once powerful civilization is found. The scientists determine that an atomic war destroyed most of the Martians. Those that survived reverted to a caveman like existence.
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I’ve enjoyed space exploration movies, going all the way back to cheesy movies like “Rocketship X-M” in the 1950s.
With Rocketship X-M, Kurt Neumann taught us a half-century ago that cinematic science fiction, when at a loss for better ideas, isn't afraid to hitch earthbound cosmological visions to a rhetoric of speechless wonder.