Missile 510

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Movie
German title Missile 510
Original title First Man into Space
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 1959
length 78 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Robert Day
script John Croydon aka John C. Cooper, Charles Vetter aka Lance Z. Hargreaves
production John Croydon for Amalgated Films
music Buxton Orr
camera Geoffrey Faithfull
cut Peter Mayhew
occupation

Rocket 510 ( English : First Man into Space ) is a British science fiction film from 1959. The production background was apparently the start of Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957. The US premiere took place on February 27, the German premiere on February 14 August 1959.

action

Bell X-1 46-062 (in flight)

During a test flight with a rocket plane , Lieutenant Dan Prescott, contrary to his orders, exceeds the limit and flies into a cloud of meteorite dust . The cloud deforms him physically and mentally. His escape pod is found, but he himself remains missing . Suddenly a series of gruesome and inexplicable murders occur on earth . The attack on a blood bank seems to be related to this . Frigate Captain John Prescott, head of the rocket aircraft test station, exposes the missing test pilot, his brother, as a murderer. Because of his contamination, Dan was forced to feed on human blood. Shortly before his death, he can tell John important details about the test flight.

Production background

Bill Warren suggested that the production was in direct context with the launch of the Sputnik in early October 1957; filming began that same month. The film was designed for the US market from the start. The horror component of Amalgated Films was presumably included in the plot in order to attract a youthful audience, since a purely technology-oriented aviation drama would not have been attractive enough. However, both parts of the plot have practically no context in terms of content.

Although the film is set in New Mexico , it was shot entirely in England . For the production was documentary material of the experimental aircraft Bell X-1 is used.

criticism

The plot of this story was stolen from Schock (1955; director: Val Guest ), and the rest of it is not exactly the yellow of the egg either.

Hahn / Jansen, p. 717.

Lore

A German-language DVD edition appeared in 2010.

literature

  • Ronald M. Hahn / VolkerJansen: Lexicon of Science Fiction Films , 2 vols., Munich (Wilhelm Heyne Verlag) 1997, vol. 2. ISBN 3-453-11860-X
  • Bill Warren: Keep Watching the Skies! American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties , Jefferson, NC / London (Mc Farland & Company, Inc., Publishers) 2010, pp. 270-274. ISBN 978-0-7864-4230-0

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for rocket 510 . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2009 (PDF; test number: 19 984 V).

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