Riders to the Stars

Riders to the Stars (1954)

SEE! men and equipment float in air, trapped where there is no gravity - no up or down!

The Office of Scientific Investigations recruits and intensively trains astronauts to pilot space rockets to intercept and capture a meteor before it dissolves in Earth's atmosphere. Scientists need to examine the meteor to understand how it withstands cosmic radiation and extreme heat, solving the problem of metal fatigue for safe intergalactic travel.

Date of release
1954-01-14
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (17)
Runtime
1h 21m
Genres
Drama, Science Fiction
Director
Richard Carlson, Herbert L. Strock

Casting

Interesting facts

Riders to the Stars is a 1954 independently made American science fiction film produced by Ivan Tors Productions and released by United Artists. The film was directed by Richard Carlson and Herbert L. Strock (uncredited) and also stars William Lundigan, Martha Hyer, and Herbert Marshall.

Production

Riders to the Stars was Richard Carlson's first film as both director and star. In order to create a more authentic feel for the story, contemporary newsreel footage was used of United States' launches of German V-2 rockets captured by the United States Army at the end of World War II in Europe. Additionally, one authentic sequence shows "two white rats in a rocket beyond the force of gravity ...

Five years later, actor William Lundigan would go on to star in the syndicated space science fiction television series Men Into Space (1959), which could be considered a sequel to or at least a continuation of the ideas explored in Riders to the Stars.

Riders to the Stars was filmed and released theatrically in SuperCinecolor provided by Color Corporation of America, but prints struck for television syndication were in black-and-white. Turner Classic Movies airs the color version.

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