History Film / MoonZeroTwo

Two such denizens of this rough and tumble lunar society are the notorious millionaire J. J. "100%" Hubbard (Warren Mitchell) and former-astronaut-turned-satellite-salvage-man Bill Kemp (James Olson). The first man to set foot on Mars, Kemp has now left the Space Corporation because it has abandoned exploration entirely in favour of running commercial passenger flights to Mars and Venus. When Hubbard hears of a small 6000-tonne asteroid made of pure sapphire that is orbiting close to the moon, he hires Kemp to capture it using Kemp's old "Moon 02" space ferry and bring it down on the lunar farside; although it would be against the law, nobody except Hubbard (and Kemp) would know that the asteroid was diverted. Kemp has little choice about agreeing, since he has learned that his flight license soon will be revoked due to protests from the Corporation. As extra incentive, Hubbard also claims that he plans to use the sapphire as a rocket engine thermal insulator -- meaning he would build more powerful rockets capable of finally colonizing Mercury, and even the moons of Jupiter, for commercial gain.

Of course, if the heat radiating system is blown, the interior of a spacecraft can become dangerously hot, as depicted in the movie and as demonstrated aboard the real-world Skylab only four years later.

* SciFiBobHaircut: The wigmaker from ''Series/{{UFO}}'' has clearly been selling to some of the women in this movie, including Clementine. (Compare her appearance during the BarBrawl and on board ''Moon Zero Two'' in the next scene.)

* SpiritualSuccessor: The television series ''Series/{{UFO}}'' and ''Series/{{Space 1999}}'' have many stylistic similarities. (Indeed,this and ''Series/{{Space 1999}}'' have a cast member in common (Catherine Schell, still billed as Catherina von Schell).

* {{Zeerust}}: The film is a very 1960's vision of the future.

* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: Underneath the silly '60s camp, ''Moon Zero Two'' is plenty hard.

Meanwhile a young woman named Clementine (Creator/CatherineSchell) arrives looking for her brother, a miner working a distant patch of moonscape at Spectacle Crater on farside. Unfortunately, the trip from Moon City on the nearside would take six days by lunar buggy. Since Kemp could fly there in twenty minutes in Moon 02, she persuades him to help her learn whether her brother is still alive. In doing so, Kemp learns more than he would like about of Hubbard's schemes and methods.

* INeverSaidItWasPoison: How Kemp fingers the man who arranged [[spoiler: Tapman's]] death. Realizing the man died from a poisoned oxygen tank, he holds it up to the face of the corrupt bureaucrat who sold it to him and asks him what he smells. The panicked man says, "Cyanide!"...at which point Kemp reveals that the tank he was holding ''then'' is empty.

* SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay: Despite a fair attempt at realism, there are examples. Most notably while in the malfunctioning moon bug, the temperature suddenly becomes excessively hot, forcing Kemp and Clem to strip down to their space skivvies because the heating and cooling systems are no longer functioning. However, waste heat elimination is one of the biggest problems faced by spacecraft designers because vacuum is an extremely poor conductor for radiating heat away. As a result, spacecraft are designed to be as efficient as possible at doing away with excess heat. The end result is that without some sort of heating system to warm the cabin, a spacecraft's interior will get extremely cold ''extremely'' quickly, regardless of whether it's being exposed to direct sunlight.[[note]]See, for example, the Apollo 13 accident; shutting down non-essential systems such as life support led to interior becoming very cold in short order.[[/note]] If Kemp and Clem's buggy had lost its environmental systems, it actually would have gotten dangerously ''cold'', ''not'' excessively hot, because of the craft's own engineering to expel waste heat.

* TheStoic: Bill Kemp the hero greets everything with DullSurprise.

Meanwhile a young woman named Clementine (Catherine Schell) arrives looking for her brother, a miner working a distant patch of moonscape at Spectacle Crater on farside. Unfortunately, the trip from Moon City on the nearside would take six days by lunar buggy. Since Kemp could fly there in twenty minutes in Moon 02, she persuades him to help her learn whether her brother is still alive. In doing so, Kemp learns more than he would like about of Hubbard's schemes and methods.

* {{Fanservice}}: In and out of universe, the dancing women dressed as Aliens, Cowgirls, and Native Americans.
** As well as getting a good look at Kemp in the shower...

* SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay: Despite a fair attempt at realism, there are examples:
** InSpaceEveryoneCanSeeYourFace: No silly faceplate lights, but no shielding against solar radiation either.
** SpaceIsNoisy: Mostly averted, but during the gunfight on Farside, gunshots are clearly audible in a vacuum.
** SpaceIsSlowMotion: Abused horribly when Kemp turns off the artificial gravity at the saloon during a BarBrawl.
* SpaceWestern: The film labelled itself as one, lampshades it, and the plot is a SciFi version of a claim-jumping story. On the other hand, it more closely resembles the aviation-action thrillers fashionable at the time it was made, and the original story was co-written by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Lyall Gavin Lyall]], a notable author in that genre.

* DisposableWoman: Liz, the hero's [[VasquezAlwaysDies police officer]] SympatheticInspectorAntagonist slash [[UnresolvedSexualTension ambiguous love interest]] is bumped off just before the final act, just in time to make room for Clem to take over as the ReplacementLoveInterest. (Liz had been following the trail of Hubbard's plot on her own, but since she doesn't have the chance to notify other authorities, her subplot [[ShootTheShaggyDog boils down to this trope]].)

* SpiritualSuccessor: The television series ''Series/{{UFO}}'' and ''Series/{{Space 1999}}'' have many stylistic similarities. (indeed This and ''Series/{{Space 1999}}'' have a cast member in common (Catherine Schell).

* UsedFuture: The eponymous spaceship Moon Zero Two is very used.

* SpiritualSuccessor: The television series ''Series/{{UFO}}'' and ''Series/{{Space 1999}}'' have many stylistic similarities.

* ChekovsGun: Kemp and Clem use a wire connection between their suits to communicate during the shootout at her brother's claim, so Hubbard's goons can't hear them over the radio. In the climax, Clem uses the same system to coordinate taking out another of Hubbard's thugs with Korminski so they can regain control of ''Moon Zero Two'' and rescue Klem.

* ContrivedCoincidence: The astroid will reach optimum position in space to be redirected to the moon, just a couple of days before [[spoiler:Tapman's claim is set to expire]].

* AsteroidMiners: Averted, and discussed. When Hubbard tells Kemp about the sapphire asteroid, Kemp explains how mining asteroids in space has never been practical like he'd given the speech before. Hubbard then immediately explains how his plan was to crash the asteroid instead.

* DisposableWoman: Liz, the hero's [[VasquezAlwaysDies police officer]] SympatheticInspectorAntagonist slash [[FoeYay ambiguous love interest]] is bumped off just before the final act, just in time to make room for Clem to take over as the ReplacementLoveInterest. (Liz had been following the trail of Hubbard's plot on her own, but since she doesn't have the chance to notify other authorities, her subplot [[ShootTheShaggyDog boils down to this trope]].)

* DisposableWoman: The hero's police-officer girlfriend is bumped off to make room for the ReplacementLoveInterest.

''Moon Zero Two'' is a science fiction film produced by Hammer Films and released in 1969 (some three months after the moon landing, in fact). It was billed as a "space western" and made shortly after the release of Creator/StanleyKubrick's ''[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey 2001: A Space Odyssey]]''. The film did very poorly at the box-office, but became a minor cult classic in following decades.

Two such denizens of this rough and tumble lunar society are the notorious millionaire J. J. "100%" Hubbard and former-astronaut-turned-satellite-salvage-man Bill Kemp. The first man to set foot on Mars, Kemp has now left the Space Corporation because it has abandoned exploration entirely in favour of running commercial passenger flights to Mars and Venus. When Hubbard hears of a small 6000-tonne asteroid made of pure sapphire that is orbiting close to the moon, he hires Kemp to capture it using Kemp's old "Moon 02" space ferry and bring it down on the lunar farside; although it would be against the law, nobody except Hubbard (and Kemp) would know that the asteroid was diverted. Kemp has little choice about agreeing, since he has learned that his flight license soon will be revoked due to protests from the Corporation. As extra incentive, Hubbard also claims that he plans to use the sapphire as a rocket engine thermal insulator -- meaning he would build more powerful rockets capable of finally colonizing Mercury, and even the moons of Jupiter, for commercial gain.

Meanwhile a young woman arrives looking for her brother, a miner working a distant patch of moonscape at Spectacle Crater on farside. Unfortunately, the trip from Moon City on the nearside would take six days by lunar buggy. Since Kemp could fly there in twenty minutes in Moon 02, she persuades him to help her learn whether her brother is still alive. In doing so, Kemp learns more than he would like about of Hubbard's schemes and methods.

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For the ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version, please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S01E11MoonZeroTwo episode recap page]].

Two such denizens of this rough and tumble lunar society are the notorious millionaire J. J. Hubbard and former-astronaut-turned-satellite-salvage-man Bill Kemp. The first man to set foot on Mars, Kemp has now left the Space Corporation because it has abandoned exploration entirely in favour of running commercial passenger flights to Mars and Venus. When Hubbard hears of a small 6000-tonne asteroid made of pure sapphire that is orbiting close to the moon, he hires Kemp to capture it using Kemp's old "Moon 02" space ferry and bring it down on the lunar farside although it would be against the law. However, Kemp has little choice since he has learned that his flight license soon will be revoked due to protests from the Corporation. Hubbard also claims that he plans to use the sapphire as a rocket engine thermal insulator; he would build more powerful rockets capable of finally colonising Mercury, and even the moons of Jupiter, for commercial gain.

* INeverSaidItWasPoison: How Kemp fingers the man who arranged [[spoiler: Tapman's]] death. Realizing the man died from a poisoned oxygen tank, he holds it up to the face of the corrupt bureaucrat who sold it to him and asks him what he smells. The panicked man says, "Cyanide!"...at which point Kemp reveals that the tank is empty.

%%* SpaceClothes: Groovy!

* SpaceWestern: The film labelled itself as one, but it more closely resembles the aviation-action thrillers fashionable at the time it was made, and the original story was co-written by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Lyall Gavin Lyall]], a notable author in that genre.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: "Hundred Percent" Hubbard's whole gambit in the film.

''Moon Zero Two'' is a science fiction film produced by Hammer Films and released in 1969 (some three months after the moon landing, in fact). It was billed as a "space western" and made shortly after the release of Stanley Kubrick's ''[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey 2001: A Space Odyssey]]''. The film did very poorly at the box-office, but became a minor cult classic in following decades.

''Moon Zero Two'' is a science fiction film produced by Hammer Films and released in 1969 (some three months after the moon landing, in fact). It was billed as a "space western" and made shortly after the release of Stanley Kubrick's ''[[Film/ThwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey 2001: A Space Odyssey]]''. The film did very poorly at the box-office, but became a minor cult classic in following decades.