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* InSpaceEveryoneCanSeeYourFace: The helmets are equipped with "invisible electro-magnetic ray screen[s]" that protect them from ... space ... stuff. In practice, this just means they're wearing [[OffTheShelfFX motorcycle helmets with no face shield]].
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''12 to the Moon'' is a 1960 American ScienceFiction film directed by David Bradley, starring Ken Clark, Michi Kobi, Tom Conway, Anthony Dexter, and John Wengraf.
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* TripToTheMoonPlot: Involving a much larger crew than would eventually end up going.
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* KnockoutPunch: One punch from the American takes down a knife-wielding Frenchie.
* MagicalAsian: Hideko has an intuitive understanding of alien languages because she's Japanese for some reason.
* SpecialGuest: Francis X. Bushman received "Guest Star" billing in the opening credits for his MrExposition speech at the start of the film as spokesman for the "International Space Order."
* TapOnTheHead One punch from the American takes down a knife-wielding Frenchie.
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* SpecialGuest: Francis X. Bushman received "Guest Star" billing in the opening credits for his MrExposition speech at the start of the film as spokesman for the "International Space Order."
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* DramaticPause: "I don't believe there are any...Moon People. Do you?"
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* DramaticPause: "I don't believe there are any... Moon People. Do you?"
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* DirtyCommunists: Completely averted. Orloff, identified explicitly as being from the Soviet Union, angrily condemns FrenchJerk Martel's suggestion to let North America be frozen by moon aliens. He then attempts to beat down Martel in order to stop him, despite having second-degree burns all over his hands.
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* DirtyCommunists: Completely Almost completely averted. Orloff, identified explicitly as being from the Soviet Union, angrily condemns FrenchJerk Martel's suggestion to let North America be frozen by moon aliens. He (Martel implies that he was also a Communist, and denounces Orloff as a traitor for not cooperating.) Orloff then attempts to beat down Martel in order to stop him, despite having second-degree burns all over his hands.
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* FrenchJerk: Martel who wants to let America freeze so Europe will dominate the world. Even the Soviet character was portrayed as having basic honor and dignity, and this was a movie made more or less at the height of the RedScare.
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* FrenchJerk: Martel Martel, who wants to let America freeze so Europe (and/or the Soviet Union) will dominate the world. Even the Soviet character was portrayed as having basic honor and dignity, and this was a movie made more or less at the height of the RedScare.
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* QuicksandSucksQuicksandSucks: Even on the moon. One of the crew members sinks to his doom, and Captain Anderson almost joins him by the time the others finally dig out the "Magnet buoy" to pull him out.
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* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLoveWhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: The moon aliens, despite being contemptuous of human emotions, admit to being curious enough about love to take the Swedish doctor and her love interest with them, and decide that it is a redeeming quality of humanity by the end of the film.
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* MrFanservice: [[{{hunk}} Hunky]] Captain Anderson gets a ShirtlessScene early on.
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* GoldFever: As usual there's gold on the Moon, though they're more enraptured by the Meddia stone.
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* GoldFever: As usual there's gold on the Moon, though they're more enraptured by the Meddia Medea stone.
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* BrokenAesop: So was it the PowerOfLove or the threat of Mutually Assured Destruction that made the aliens back off? Then again, maybe the Aesop is that you need both.
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* BrokenAesop: So was it the PowerOfLove or the threat of Mutually Assured Destruction MutuallyAssuredDestruction that made the aliens back off? Then again, maybe the Aesop is that you need both.
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* OffTheShelfFX: The wall-mounted launch countdown timer is a standard GraLab darkroom timer; the gaffer tape covering up the logos is visible in one close-up.
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* OffTheShelfFX: The wall-mounted launch countdown timer is a standard GraLab [=GraLab=] darkroom timer; the gaffer tape covering up the logos is visible in one close-up.
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* OffTheShelfFX: The wall-mounted launch countdown timer is a standard GraLab darkroom timer; the gaffer tape covering up the logos is visible in one close-up.
** The beds the astronauts lay on during launch look suspiciously like lawn chairs.
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* SpecialGuest: Francis X. Bushman received "Guest Star" billing in the opening credits for his MrExposition speech at the start of the film as spokesman for the "International Space Order."
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted; the crew's sole black member survives the journey intact.
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* NorseByNorsewest: Naturally its the blonde Swedish doctor and her beau who teach the aliens the PowerOfLove.
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* NorseByNorsewest: Naturally its it's the blonde Swedish doctor and her beau who teach the aliens the PowerOfLove.
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* CaptainsLog: Though it isn't the captain who logs.
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* MrExposition: An announcer gives the world's first international broadcast, explaining what's going to happen and introducing the crew over a scene of them passing through a checkpoint one at a time (coincidentally in the order he's mentioning them). Once the mission is underway, a crewmember dictates everything that's happening into a recorder for posterity.
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* NarratingTheObvious: A member of the crew (not TheCaptain) records the events as they happen. Unfortunately this becomes a CaptainObvious Log for the audience, who can see it happening at the same time.
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* NarratingTheObvious: A member of the crew (not TheCaptain) records the events as they happen. Unfortunately this becomes a CaptainObvious Log for the audience, who can see it happening at the same time.
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* DirtyCommunists: Completely averted. Orloff, identified explicitly as being from the Soviet Union, angrily condemns FrenchJerk Martel's suggestion to let North America be frozen by moon aliens. He then attempts to beat down Martel in order to stop him, despite having second-degree burns all over his hands.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: There's a shot of the various animals brought on the rocket for experimental purposes, all in pairs like Noah's ark.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: There's a shot of the various animals brought on the rocket for experimental purposes, all in pairs like Noah's ark.
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* TeamPet: A dog is taken with them to the Moon, for morale reasons I guess (you'd think there'd be enough companionship with twelve people on board).
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* TeamPet: A dog is taken with them to the Moon, for morale reasons I guess (you'd think there'd be enough companionship with twelve people on board).
