A Space Commander Has Second Thoughts On A Mission To Mars In 1955’sThe Conquest Of Space

It ’s Sunday , and that mean it ’s clip to check out another Greco-Roman science fiction film : 1955 ’s The Conquest of Space !

Here ’s the description from Paramount , which include the film in their on-line bank vault :

From a distance wheel 500 miles above the Earth , air force officer Samuel Merritt ( Walter Brooke ) and his man ( including Eric Fleming and Benson Fong ) make a sleek robot , then receive orders providing their new craft ’s goal : Mars ! But once the starship is underway , doubt surface . Merritt questions the temerity of human beings ’s reach for the promised land . He phone it sacrilege and jeopardise to demolish the commission . Five - time Oscar . winner George Pal ( The War Of The Worlds ) produced this adventure steady down in the ‘ 50s understanding of space geographic expedition … and heighten by the awareness that no matter how advanced skill becomes , human weakness remain .