Missile to the Moon 1958 ★★ Sci-Fi (CC)

Missile to the Moon is a 1958 independently made American science fiction film/ drama, produced by Marc Frederic, directed by Richard E. Cunha, that stars Richard Travis, Cathy Downs, and K. T. Stevens. The film was distributed by Astor Pictures and is a remake of an earlier Astor Pictures-distributed film, Cat-Women of the Moon (1953). Missile to the Moon was released in late 1958. It played theatrically on December 15, 1958 as a double feature with Cunha's Frankenstein's Daughter (1958). In the color version the Moon women have blue skin.

Storyline:
A spaceship blasts off from Earth with five aboard, but one of them is secretly a Moon man returning home. He dies by accident during the trip to the Moon. What the remaining four find waiting for them when they arrive on the Moon is well beyond their expectations: huge rock creatures, giant lunar spiders, and a cave-dwelling civilization made up of beautiful women.

Credits:
Richard Travis as Steve Dayton
Cathy Downs as June Saxton
K. T. Stevens as the Lido
Tommy Cook as Gary Fennell
Gary Clarke as Lon
Michael Whalen as Dirk Green
Nina Bara as Alpha
Laurie Mitchell as Lambda
Marjorie Hellen (Leslie Parrish) as Zema
Henry Hunter as Colonel Wickers
Lee Roberts as Sheriff Cramer
Pat Mowry as Moon girl
Tania Velia as Moon girl [Note 2]
Sanita Pelkey as Moon girl
Lisa Simone as Moon girl
Mary Ford as Moon girl [Note 3]
Marianne Gaba as Moon girl
Sandra Wirth as Moon girl

Filming locations:
Red Rock Canyon State Park - Highway 14, Cantil, California, USA
Screencraft Studios, 8470 Melrose Ave, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA