I'm amazed there is no "goofs" link for this movie because there are many, including:
Space suits that don't have any connection between the suit and the helmet leaving the bare neck of the wearer visibly exposed.
Characters able to hear things on the airless moon's surface.
Clouds on the moon.
A gantry clearly visible as the spaceship lands on the unexplored lunar surface (an effect achieved by reversing the stock V2 take-off footage used earlier in the movie with a couple of rock matted into the foreground).
A civilisation so starved of oxygen that the main form of interior decorative lighting consists of lighted torches and flambeaux.
Early in the movie Hunk hero and Girlfriend are trapped in the lower part of the ship that "has no oxygen". Luckily there are a couple of 'spare' oxygen masks lying around. Later one of the crew in the upper part of the ship raises a hatch in the floor of the upper section to reveal the two slumped bodies. No he wouldn't. If the lower portion had been unpressurised, the air pressure in the upper cabin would have held the door shut with the apparent weight of a couple of tons.
Etc etc.
None of these would really mar what is a pretty awful, hackneyed piece of junk SF assembled from bits salvaged from the great North Hollywood cliché mountain but for the fact that the whole plot revolves around the lack of air on the moon. This movie has no internal logic at all.
If you are looking to buy this movie - and I cannot for the life of me understand why you would - please be warned: my copy is on one of those "3 Classic Sci-F- Films of the Silver Screen" on one disc jobs* and the print is just awful. Scratched, jumpy and, amazingly, out of focus for great chunks of the time.
*Cat Number CE 040 along with Earth Vs The Flying Saucers http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049169 and Planet Outlaws http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046192
Space suits that don't have any connection between the suit and the helmet leaving the bare neck of the wearer visibly exposed.
Characters able to hear things on the airless moon's surface.
Clouds on the moon.
A gantry clearly visible as the spaceship lands on the unexplored lunar surface (an effect achieved by reversing the stock V2 take-off footage used earlier in the movie with a couple of rock matted into the foreground).
A civilisation so starved of oxygen that the main form of interior decorative lighting consists of lighted torches and flambeaux.
Early in the movie Hunk hero and Girlfriend are trapped in the lower part of the ship that "has no oxygen". Luckily there are a couple of 'spare' oxygen masks lying around. Later one of the crew in the upper part of the ship raises a hatch in the floor of the upper section to reveal the two slumped bodies. No he wouldn't. If the lower portion had been unpressurised, the air pressure in the upper cabin would have held the door shut with the apparent weight of a couple of tons.
Etc etc.
None of these would really mar what is a pretty awful, hackneyed piece of junk SF assembled from bits salvaged from the great North Hollywood cliché mountain but for the fact that the whole plot revolves around the lack of air on the moon. This movie has no internal logic at all.
If you are looking to buy this movie - and I cannot for the life of me understand why you would - please be warned: my copy is on one of those "3 Classic Sci-F- Films of the Silver Screen" on one disc jobs* and the print is just awful. Scratched, jumpy and, amazingly, out of focus for great chunks of the time.
*Cat Number CE 040 along with Earth Vs The Flying Saucers http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049169 and Planet Outlaws http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046192