Three men are assigned by the Office of Scientific Investigation to man rocket ships to outer space and attempt to capture a meteor.Three men are assigned by the Office of Scientific Investigation to man rocket ships to outer space and attempt to capture a meteor.Three men are assigned by the Office of Scientific Investigation to man rocket ships to outer space and attempt to capture a meteor.
- Dr. Sidney K. Fuller
- (as James K. Best)
- Research Laboratory Manager
- (uncredited)
- Susan's Photographer
- (uncredited)
- Archibald Guiness
- (uncredited)
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- Richard Carlson
- Herbert L. Strock(uncredited)
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- Curt Siodmak
- Ivan Tors(uncredited)
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- TriviaPhotographed in color by Color Corporation Of America; when sold to television in 1956, most prints and broadcasts were in black & white. The 35MM color master used for the DVD release, occasionally shown on Turner Classic Movies, shows a lot of wear and a few splices, particularly at the reel changes, but may be the best that has survived.
- GoofsIn the film's first minutes, two crews race through the desert to recover equipment from a rocket that has landed. One is in a truck pulling a trailer, and the trailer has a big black box in it. When the truck and trailer runs over plants and bumps, the trailer bounces around, and we see in a quick shot that the big black box is thrown out of the trailer. But it is still in the trailer in later shots, such as on reaching the landing site. Also a vehicle carrying electronic equipment that more than likely contained vacuum tubes before the invention of solid-state electrics would not be driven in such a reckless manner with unsecured cargo in the trailer.
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Kitty White: [Opening song lyrics sung by Kitty White, though IMDb's quote section would not let me add her as "other" in the quotes section] "Riders to the Stars - that is what we are every time we kiss in the night. Jupiter and Mars aren't very far anytime your holding me tight. Your embrace changed time and place. Hurled in space were we, and now we're Whirling past the moon, far away from Earth just the way I dreamed love would be. Riders to the stars are we."
- ConnectionsFeatured in Weirdo with Wadman: Riders to the Stars (1964)
It was all so new but we were approaching the time that all Sci-Fi Nerds just knew would happen and after we split the Atom, everything now seemed not only possible but probable. Hence we have this Movie and a very few others that tried its low-budget best to put up on the screen as Entertainment, this highly anticipated new era in Human endeavors and exploration.
The problem is that all this Science stuff is pretty boring when viewed as entertainment. Documentaries are informative and interesting but most are hardly effectively entertaining. They are what they are and this is what it is. A Movie marketed as entertainment that in the end is only slightly so. It is more interesting than entertaining and was more informative in 1954 than it was exciting.
It does manage, against all odds, to be engaging enough in a time-capsule kind of way and most likely created a buzz among Movie goers. It also, may have attracted the readers of Popular Science and Popular Mechanics Magazines. But the irony is that there are probably more accurate prognostications in this Movie than in those highly sophisticated, pretentious periodicals. They were almost always wrong.
- LeonLouisRicci
- May 4, 2013
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