Conquest of Space
Overview
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
movie
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
produced by George Pal
George Pál
George Pal , born György Pál Marczincsak, was a Hungarian-born American animator and film producer, principally associated with the science fiction genre...
which depicts a voyage to Mars. The science and technology were intended to be as realistic as possible. The poster tagline was "See how it will happen in your lifetime!"
Sometime in the late 1950s, mankind has achieved the capability of manned space flight and built a space station in orbit around the Earth, headed by Captain Merritt, whose son is feeling a little homesick (he'd left Earth three months after just marrying).
Quotations
Walter Brooke — Col./Gen. Samuel T. Merritt
Eric Fleming — Capt. Barney Merritt
Mickey Shaughnessy — Sgt. Mahoney
Phil Foster — Sgt. Jackie Siegle
William Redfield — Roy Cooper
Conquest of Space (1954), Paramount Pictures DVD. ISBN 079219778X.