The Lost Missile

The Lost Missile (1958)

The thing that came from outer hell ... to burn the world alive!

A missile from parts unknown enters an orbit only 5 miles above Earth's surface and, due to friction from its intense speed through our atmosphere, proceeds to incinerate everything in its immediate wake.

Date of release
1958-12-01
TMDB
4.8 / 10 (16)
Runtime
1h 10m
Genres
Science Fiction
Director
William Berke

Casting

Interesting facts

The Lost Missile is a 1958 American science fiction film written by John McPartland and science-fiction writer Jerome Bixby. It was to have been directed by William Berke, who was also the executive producer, but following Berke's sudden death, his son Lester Wm. Berke became the film's director. It stars Robert Loggia in one of his earliest roles.

Production

A low-budget film that relied heavily on stock footage of military forces and civil-defense exercises, The Lost Missile carried a Cold War-era message of the importance of the work performed by scientists and the military in protecting the nation from external threats.

The concept of the atomic-powered cruise-missile doomsday weapon was similar to that of the U.S. Air Force's Supersonic Low Altitude Missile, which was under development at the time.

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