Project Moon Base (1953)

Starring Donna Martell, Hayden Rorke, Ross Ford, Larry Johns, Herb Jacobs
Directed by Richard Talmadge
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)

A space flight from an American space station on a mission to orbit the moon goes awry when an enemy agent on board is discovered.

Despite the fact that there's some gender role reversal in this film, I've always been a little unsure as to whether it's a progressive picture or not.  Martell gets to play the hot shot pilot, but is not positioned in the script as the character to root for, and comes off as overconfident and arrogant.  That is not to say that a woman can't play that role, as plenty of men have.  However, the film makes a point of casting her bravado as hollow, and making her character defer to her male co-pilot for most of the command decisions, which doesn't seem progressive to me.  Despite the fact that the film was co-written by famed science fiction author Robert Heinlein, this is a low-budget production, which was per Wikipedia shot in 10 days, pooling sets and costumes with Cat-Women Of The Moon.  All of this doesn't mean it's not a fun picture, with elementary but clever special effects, well-photographed by William C. Thompson, and possessing Herschel Burke Gilbert's score, highlighted by eerie themes for the moon sequences.  

The Night Walker (1964)

Starring Robert Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck, Judith Meredith, Hayden Rorke, Rochelle Hudson
Directed by William Castle
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)

A wealthy widow's dreams of a young man romancing her become so vivid, she's convinced they've really happened.

This is an effective little chiller from producer/director William Castle, anchored by old Hollywood stars Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck.  After a prologue on the nature of dreams with spooky illustrations and grim narration by the great voice actor Paul Frees, Castle plunges us into the story, written by Psycho's Robert Bloch, introducing us to Stanwyck and her husband, played by actor Hayden Rorke in a great creepy makeup, whose blindness and Stanwyck's dreams of a nightly lover drive him into a jealous paranoia.  When Rorke's character meets his maker in a mysterious explosion, but no body turns up, Stanwyck's dreams begin to include not only her young lover but a terribly burned Rorke who terrifies her, and makes us wonder if he's not really dead.  The film keeps us guessing as it drives to his climax, and the suspense increases, complemented by an eerie music score by Vic Mizzy.  This may not be a great film, but it's an awful lot of fun.