"Кетіп бара жатқан ғарыш кемесі X М"

1950 film by Kurt Neumann

Rocketship X M (a. k. a. Expedition Moon and originally Rocketship Expedition Moon) is a 1950 American black and white science fiction film from Lippert Pictures, the first outer space adventure of the post World War II era. The film was produced and directed by Kurt Neumann and stars Lloyd Bridges, Osa Massen, John Emery, Noah Beery Jr., Hugh O'Brian, and Morris Ankrum. Rocketship X M tells the story of a Moon expedition gone awry. Through a series of unforeseen events, the expedition's crew find themselves on the infamous red planet, Mars. During their time on the planet they go on to discover the remnants of a Martian civilization destroyed long ago by atomic war and now reverted to barbarism.

Because production issues had delayed the release of George Pal's high profile Destination Moon, Rocketship X M was quickly shot in just 18 days on a $94,000 budget; it was then rushed into theaters 25 days before the Pal film, while taking full advantage of Destination Moons high profile national publicity. Given the film's minimal special effects budget and limited shooting days, the surface of Mars was much easier to simulate using remote Southern California locations than creating the airless and cratered surface of the Moon.

Rocketship X M was rushed to market to be in theaters before the more lavishly produced but delayed Destination Moon that was finally released 25 days later. A lack of both time and budget forced RX Ms producers to omit special effects scenes and substitute stock footage of American V 2 rocket launches and flight to complete some sequences that otherwise would have been made using the Rocketship X M special effects miniature. These V 2 inserts created very noticeable continuity issues.