Starring Kieron Moore, Lois Maxwell, Donald Wolfit, Bryan Forbes, Jimmy Hanley
Directed by Paul Dickson
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
The commander of a British mission to fly a spacecraft outside the Earth's atmosphere is told just before takeoff that the craft will also carry an atomic bomb to be detonated in space.
A combination of sci-fi adventure and old fashioned melodrama, the picture is probably most notable for the presence of Maxwell, who portrayed Miss Moneypenny in numerous James Bond films. She has a much more substantial role here as a romantic lead and reporter who stows aboard the spacecraft. The special effects would have been passable at the time the film was released, but haven't aged well, but that didn't detract from my enjoyment of the movie. It's acted well enough, with familiar heavy Wolfit standing out as the professor in charge of deploying the bomb, and the script poses some valid questions about the quest to explore space while the world is preoccupied with other problems.
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