Space Master X-7 is a 1958

1958 in film

The year 1958 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* February 16- "In the Money" by William Beaudine is released on this date. It would be the last installment of The Bowery Boys series which began back in 1946....

 science fiction

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 directed by Edward Bernds, starring Robert Ellis and Bill Williams

Bill Williams (actor)

Bill Williams was an American television and film actor. He is best known for his starring role in the early 1950 television show The Adventures of Kit Carson.-Career:...

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Plot

A space probe returns to Earth covered with a mysterious fungus, which, when accidentally tinged with human blood, transforms into an ever-growing pile of space rust. If not stopped, this infection may cover the entire world.

Cast

• Bill Williams
  Bill Williams (actor)
  Bill Williams was an American television and film actor. He is best known for his starring role in the early 1950 television show The Adventures of Kit Carson.-Career:...
  
   as John Hand
• Lyn Thomas as Laura Greeling
• Robert Ellis as Pvt. Joe Rattigan
• Paul Frees
  Paul Frees
  Paul Frees was an American voice actor and character actor.-Biography:He was born Solomon Hersh Frees in Chicago...
  
   as Dr. Charles T. Pommer
• Rhoda Williams
  Rhoda Williams
  Rhoda Williams was an American actress who voiced Drizella Tremaine in Walt Disney's Cinderella.-Early life:Rhoda Williams was born on July 19, 1930 in Denver, Colorado . She began her acting career at age five, when she and her family moved to Hollywood from Galveston, Texas. She was the daughter...
  
   as Stewardess Archer
• Joan Barry
  Joan Barry (American actress)
  Joan Barry was an American actress who was at the center of a paternity suit with Charlie Chaplin in 1943.-Biography:Born as Mary Louise Gribble, her father, Jim Gribble, committed suicide before her birth...
  
   as Jean Meyers, a brunet
• Carol Varga as Elaine Frohman
• Thomas Browne Henry as Prof. West
• Thomas Wilde as Collins
• Fred Sherman as Mr. Morse, Hotel Manager
• Gregg Martell as Jim Dale, plane engineer
• Jess Kirkpatrick as Pilot Vaccarino
• Court Shepard as Battalion Fire Chief Hendry
• Moe Howard
  Moe Howard
  Moses Harry Horwitz , known professionally as Moe Howard, was an American actor and comedian best known as the leader of The Three Stooges, the farce comedy team who starred in motion pictures and television for four decades...
  
   as Retlinger, the Cab Driver
• Al Baffert as Plane passenger

Video game

A Space Master X-7 video game was released in 1983 for the Atari 2600

Atari 2600

The Atari 2600 is a video game console released in October 1977 by Atari, Inc. It is credited with popularizing the use of microprocessor-based hardware and cartridges containing game code, instead of having non-microprocessor dedicated hardware with all games built in...

 by Fox's video game publishing arm. It was not in fact based on the movie: programmer David Lubar had not even heard of it before Fox decided to attach the title to an original game he had developed. The game's Atari 800

Atari 8-bit family

The Atari 8-bit family is a series of 8-bit home computers manufactured from 1979 to 1992. All are based on the MOS Technology 6502 CPU and were the first home computers designed with custom coprocessor chips...

port, published by Sirius Software that same year, was released as Alpha Shield, dropping the movie connection entirely.