History Film / CatWomenOfTheMoon

It recieved a 1959 remake titled ''Film/MissileToTheMoon''.

** [[RulesLawyer Captain Laird]] barks at the others to check their instruments instead of taking a moment to answer the desperate calls from White Sands, so the people back on Earth will know they're not dead. When he does answer, he just gives a status report and only reluctantly allows the others to say a few words to their expectant audience.

* NoSeatbelts: Averted; when the crew have to put their RetroRocket in a spin to dislodge a meteor that's become lodged in their tail section, they buckle up the seatbelts on their [[NoBudget office swivel chairs]]... [[NoOshaCompliance Swivel chairs?]]

-->'''Helen:''' I still can't be sure whether you're speaking my language, or I yours.
-->'''Alpha:''' We need no language, Helen. We can [[{{Telepathy}} project our thoughts]] long distances, as you well know. Some day we will teach you. In the meantime we will speak your tongue, just as [[{{omniglot}} we speak all of Earth's tongues]].

** [[TheChick Helen]] does her hair and relies on women's intuition instead of checking her instruments.

-->'''Kip:''' I wonder if the commander would permit an observation?
-->'''Laird:''' Ah come on Kip, we don't have to get that formal.
-->'''Kip:''' Well I only wanted to point out, that from the angle the ship entered the crater, it would have been impossible for Miss Salanger to see that cave.

* FiveManBand: Laird Grainger (TheCaptain), Kip Reissner (co-pilot), Helen Salinger (navigator), 'Walt' Walters (engineer), Doug Smith (radio operator).

Well there's more to it than that, but not much. Part of the LadyLand subgenre of sci-fi cheapies (see also ''Film/QueenOfOuterSpace'' and ''Film/FireMaidensFromOuterSpace'') in which an InterplanetaryVoyage leads to the discovery of an all-female society on another world. Rather than using this premise to explore gender politics of [[TheFifties the time]], we instead get {{fanservice}} and the restoration of a reassuring sense of male patriarchy by the end.

The movie has the distinction of being one of the worst movies ever made about the moon. Until the 1959 remake ''Film/MissileToTheMoon'', which managed to be even worse.

* ReentryScare: Inverted as the movie opens with [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece White Sands Missile Base]] desperately calling the crew of Moon Rocket 4 because they've [[ScienceMarchesOn blacked out from the terrible G-forces of takeoff]].

%%* FishbowlHelmet: Though with a flat face-piece for an undistorted view.
%%* Five Man Band: Laird Grainger (TheCaptain), Kip Reissner (co-pilot), Helen Salinger (navigator), 'Walt' Walters (engineer), Doug Smith (radio operator).
%%* FutureSpandex: The cat-women [[NonIndicativeName at least wear catsuits]].

-->'''Alpha:''' We need no language, Helen. We can [[{{Telepathy}} project our thoughts]] long distances, [[MindManipulation as you well know.]] Some day we will teach you. In the meantime we will speak your tongue, just as [[{{omniglot}} we speak all of Earth's tongues]].

* FishbowlHelmet: Though with a flat face-piece for an undistorted view.
* FiveManBand: Laird Grainger (TheCaptain), Kip Reissner (co-pilot), Helen Salinger (navigator), 'Walt' Walters (engineer), Doug Smith (radio operator).
* FutureSpandex: The cat-women [[NonIndicativeName at least wear catsuits]].

* NotableOriginalMusic: This is one of the films Music/ElmerBernstein scored while waiting for [[RedScare Senator McCarthy]] to leave power.

* DeathByMaterialism: Walt Walters is constantly pulling cheap stunts to get money (postcards from the moon, advertisement plugs on the radio). He gets stabbed InTheBack in a [[GoldFever cave of gold]].
* DejaVu: Helen has the strangest feeling that all this has happened before.

The movie has the distinction of being one of the worst movies ever made about the moon.

Remade in 1959 as ''Film/MissileToTheMoon''.

* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: The landing site is supposedly where the dark and light sides of the moon meet, but establishing shots of the parked rocket ship show the Earth high in the sky instead of where it should be, very close to the horizon.

* NotableOriginalMusic: This is one of the films Music/ElmerBernstein scored while waiting for [=McCarthy=] to leave power.

-->'''Narrator:''' The eternal wonders of space and time. The far away dreams and mysteries of other worlds. Other life. The stars. The planets. Man has been face to face with them for centuries, yet is barely able to penetrate their unknown secrets. Sometime, someday, the barrier will be pierced. Why must we wait? Why not... now? ''SmashCut to rocketship blasting into space!''

* SinisterSilhouettes: Difficult to achieve when the subject is a hair-bunned woman. Except for the HandOfDeath when Walt gets killed.

-->'''Alpha:''' We need no language, Helen. We can project our thoughts long distances, [[MindManipulation as you well know.]]

-->'''Alpha:''' We need know language, Helen. We can project our thoughts long distances, [[MindManipulation as you well know.]]

** Averted when Helen is abducted by the cat-women. Kip points out that it makes more sense to wait to see whether she's returned. She is.