Satellite in the Sky

Satellite in the Sky (1956)

The Never-Told Story Of Life On The Roof Of The Earth!

A bomb dooms the first space satellite, manned by a selfless crew, a stowaway reporter (Lois Maxwell) and a mad scientist (Donald Wolfit).

Date of release
1956-07-21
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (22)
Runtime
1h 25m
Genres
Drama, Science Fiction
Director
Paul Dickson

Casting

Interesting facts

Satellite in the Sky is a 1956 British CinemaScope science fiction film in Warner Color, produced by Edward J. Danziger and Harry Lee Danziger, directed by Paul Dickson, and starring Kieron Moore, Lois Maxwell, Donald Wolfit, and Bryan Forbes. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. Special effects were by Wally Veevers, who would later work on most influential sci-fi masterpiece, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).

Production

Satellite in the Sky was the first British science fiction film to be shot in CinemaScope and WarnerColor. Footage of the Avro Vulcan and the Folland Midge, the prototype for the later Folland Gnat aircraft series, was featured in the beginning of the film, as scientists push the envelope of high-speed flight and test exotic rocket fuels. The Midge portrays a fictional jet fighter used to test an experimental fuel.

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