The Lost Missile (1958) on Netflix
A rocket fired at an object in space sends it into orbit five miles above Earth, burning the ground below. Near New York, Dr. David Loring's wedding to Joan Woods collapses.
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Plot summary
An object like a missile appears in nearby space, and a European nation fires a rocket at it. The explosion only diverts it into an orbit around Earth, five miles up, where the heat of its engine scorches the land beneath. Radar on the DEW Line sights it heading for the continent, and the jets sent to intercept it are destroyed. Dr. David Loring works at the Havenbrook Atomic Laboratory near New York City on a hydrogen warhead for the Jove rocket, and the job has already cost him his wedding to his assistant, Joan Woods. The missile is projected to pass over New York, and American and Canadian authorities begin civil defense preparations.
Cast
- Ellen Parkeras Joan Wood
- Larry Kerras General Barr
- Fred Engelbergas TV Singer (as Fred Engleberg)
- Shirley J. Shawnas Black Woman by Piano (as Shirley Shawn)
- Robert Busch
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Lost Missile (1958)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The Lost Missile was to have been directed by William Berke, who was also its executive producer, but after Berke died suddenly his son, Lester Wm. Berke, took over as director.
- The film's atomic-powered cruise-missile doomsday weapon echoed a real U.S. Air Force project then in the works, the Supersonic Low Altitude Missile.
- The Lost Missile was a low-budget film that relied heavily on stock footage of military forces and civil-defense exercises to show its Cold War military action.
