History Film / CatWomenOfTheMoon

** Walt makes jokes of the money he'll collect from a SideBet.

** Captain Laird barks at the others to give him a status report instead of answering the desperate calls from White Sands.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: At least ''Film/{{Missile to the Moon}}'' has an explosive climax. This movie ends with Rip running offscreen firing his gun after Alpha and Beta. We then hear him shouting back, "The cat-women are dead! Helen's all right!"

* ReentryScare: Inverted as the movie opens with [[HistoryMarchesOn 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]].

-->Why do we wait? Why not...now! ''SmashCut to tocketship blasting into space''

-->Why do we wait? Why not...now! ''Rocketship blasting into space''

* FauxlosophicNarration: The OpeningMonologue.

* 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.

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

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

* ElmerBernstein did the score.

* PropRecycling: The space helmets are leftovers from ''Creator/AbbottAndCostello Go to Mars'', produced the same year, as well as sets and costumes from ''Film/ProjectMoonbase'', which was being made at the same time.

* ThreeDMovie

* PropRecycling: The space helmets are leftovers from ''AbbottAndCostello Go to Mars'', produced the same year, as well as sets and costumes from ''Film/ProjectMoonbase'', which was being made at the same time.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: At least ''{{Missile to the Moon}}'' has an explosive climax. This movie ends with Rip running offscreen firing his gun after Alpha and Beta. We then hear him shouting back, "The cat-women are dead! Helen's all right!"

Well there's more to it than that, but not much. Part of the LadyLand subgenre of sci-fi cheapies (see also ''QueenOfOuterSpace'' and ''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.

* ThePowerOfLove: Kip breaks Alpha's MindControl just by holding Helen's hand.

* GiantSpider: Our heroes are attacked by giant puppet spiders, reducing Helen to a ScreamingWoman.

* PropRecycling: The space helmets are leftovers from ''AbbottAndCostello Go to Mars'', produced the same year, as well as sets and costumes from ''ProjectMoonbase'', which was being made at the same time.

* ArtificialGravity: Used in the cave to hold an atmosphere. Presumably on the rocketship too, as we're spared the obligatory zero-g sequence. Also Laird says their space boots won't weigh as much once they're out on the moon's surface.

* AntiClimaxCut: At least ''{{Missile to the Moon}}'' has an explosive climax. This movie ends with Rip running offscreen firing his gun after Alpha and Beta. We then hear him shouting back, "The cat-women are dead! Helen's all right!"

* VillainTeleportation: Lambda teleports herself via a bad jump cut. Leads to a FridgeLogic moment -- if the cat-women can do this, why do they need the spacesuits to get to the rocketship?

Well there's more to it than that, but not much. Part of the LadyLand subgenre of sci-fi cheapies (see also ''QueenOfOuterSpace'' and ''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 patriachy by the end.

What were you expecting -- rocket science?

* AntiClimaxCut: At least ''Missile to the Moon'' had an explosive climax. This movie ends with Rip running offscreen firing his gun after Alpha and Beta. We then hear him shouting back, "The cat-women are dead! Helen's all right!"