Conquest of Space (1955) on Netflix
Colonel Samuel T. Merritt commands the Wheel, the first space station. His son Barney wants to return to Earth, but the new spaceship is bound for Mars, and Barney volunteers.
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Plot summary
High above Earth orbits the Wheel, the first space station, designed and commanded by Colonel Samuel T. Merritt. His son, Captain Barney Merritt, has been aboard a year and wants to go home. An inspector brings orders from Earth: Merritt becomes a general and takes charge of a large new spaceship, whose target is Mars instead of the Moon. The general goes over the men available. His close friend Sgt. Mahoney volunteers, but the general refuses him, saying he is twenty years too old. Barney, hearing where the ship is headed, offers himself as second officer and is accepted. The crew watches a farewell broadcast from family and friends, then the ship departs. The general, reading his Bible often, begins to doubt whether the voyage is right.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Conquest of Space (1955)
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- Paul Corupe called Conquest of Space the first big flop of George Pal's career, a major setback that saw Pal abandon science fiction filmmaking for five years and shelve a planned sequel to When Worlds Collide.
- To appear in Conquest of Space, actor Walter Brooke turned down a five-year contract to appear in a soap opera.
- Eric Fleming was pulled out of the cast of My Three Angels on Broadway to appear in Conquest of Space.
- Director Byron Haskin said that the rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, the film's technical adviser, was on the set of Conquest of Space all the time.
