Project Moonbase

Project Moonbase (a.k.a. Project Moon Base) is a 1953 <a href="/facts/Independent_film/jrUBoAMB">independently made</a> <a href="/facts/Black-and-white/CXPjISFh">black-and-white</a> <a href="/facts/Science_fiction_film/cNsrPn3y">science fiction film</a>, produced by Jack Seaman, directed by <a href="/facts/Richard_Talmadge/Fdfbkuoz">Richard Talmadge</a>, and starring Ross Ford, <a href="/facts/Donna_Martell/chtePmQd">Donna Martell</a>, and <a href="/facts/Hayden_Rorke/s1xr6KCT">Hayden Rorke</a>. It co-stars Larry Johns, Herb Jacobs, Barbara Morrison, and Ernestine Barrier. The film was distributed by <a href="/facts/Lippert_Pictures/dVWh6mRF">Lippert Pictures</a> and is based on a story by <a href="/facts/Robert_A._Heinlein/h0oY0898">Robert A. Heinlein</a>, who shares the screenwriting credit with producer Jack Seaman.
Project Moonbase is unusual for its time in attempting to portray space travel in a "realistic" manner and for depicting a future in which women hold positions of authority and responsibility equal to men; as an example, the President of the United States is a woman. However, Colonel Breiteis, the female commander of the Moon mission, is shown to be picked for her gender, generally shown as a member of a "weaker sex", and even threatened with a spanking by her commanding officer.
<a href="/facts/Mystery_Science_Theater_3000/us79U0Jw">Mystery Science Theater 3000</a> featured the film in January 1990 as an episode during its first season on <a href="/facts/The_Comedy_Channel_(United_States)/Ve8B4BID">The Comedy Channel</a>. It had been originally broadcast in 1986 as a syndicated television episode of the <a href="/facts/Canned_Film_Festival/a8WLn63G">Canned Film Festival</a>.

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Project Moonbase