Destination Moon

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces Destination Moon, 1950.

TCM's Dave Karger introduces Destination Moon, 1950.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Destination Moon, 1950.

In a well conceived sequence from Robert Heinlein's novel, Barnes, Cargraves, General Thayer and wiseguy Joe (John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers, Dick Wesson) feel some serious G's in the launch of the first manned moon mission, in producer George Pal's ground-breaking Destination Moon, 1950.

The seminal if low-rent opening from producer George Pal, credits leading to scientist Cargraves (Warner Anderson) and General Thayer (Tom Powers) in a bunker, in the landmark post-WWII Science Fiction feature, from a story and script by Robert Heinlein, Destination Moon, 1950.

Ending the Walter Lantz-Woody Woodpecker cartoon they've cleverly had made to support their case for a privately-funded moon mission, industrialist Barnes (John Archer) lets General Thayer (Tom Powers) bring home the point to a gathering of investors, in George Pal's Destination Moon, 1950.