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Destination Moon

5.9 91 mins Science Fiction   Adventure   Drama   1950
George Pal Productions  
Director(s): Irving Pichel

A team composed of an aerospace scientist, an ex-Air Force general, and an industrialist conceives an ambitious plan to land Americans on the moon. From their base in the Mojave Desert, they construct and successfully launch a spacecraft named "Luna" that contains a cargo of four astronauts. But a critical miscalculation of needed power to escape the moon's gravitational pull may put the astronauts' lives in danger.

Casts of Destination Moon

John Archer

as Jim Barnes

Warner Anderson

as Dr. Charles Cargraves

Tom Powers

as General Thayer

Dick Wesson

as Joe Sweeney

Erin O'Brien-Moore

as Emily Cargraves

Steve Carruthers

as Businessman at Meeting (uncredited)

Franklyn Farnum

as Factory Worker (uncredited)

Jack Gargan

as Businessman at Meeting (uncredited)

Everett Glass

as Mr. La Porte (uncredited)

Kenner G. Kemp

as Businessman at Meeting (uncredited)

Knox Manning

as Himself (uncredited)

Mike Miller

as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

Irving Pichel

as Off Screen Narrator of Woody Woodpecker Cartoon (voice) (uncredited)

Cosmo Sardo

as Businessman at Meeting (uncredited)

Grace Stafford

as Woody Woodpecker (voice) (uncredited)

Bert Stevens

as Businessman at Meeting (uncredited)

Ted Warde

as Brown (uncredited)

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