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1950    1h 31minScience-Fiction, Drame
6.367%49%5.9
Un scientifique et un militaire américains, le docteur Cargraves et le général Thayer, travaillent sur un projet de conquête de la Lune. Pour financer le développement d'une fusée à propulsion nucléaire et la construction d'une base de lancement, ils s'assurent le concours de grands industriels du secteur privé, en faisant jouer leur fibre patriotique. Ils triompheront de tous les obstacles (notamment l'émotion que soulève dans le public le risque de contamination radioactive) pour mener à bien leur projet.
Réalisé par Irving Pichel

Où regarder Destination... Lune !

  • John ArcherJim Barnes
  • Warner AndersonDr. Charles Cargraves
  • Tom PowersGeneral Thayer
  • Dick WessonJoe Sweeney
  • Erin O'Brien-MooreEmily Cargraves
  • Steve CarruthersBusinessman at Meeting (uncredited)
  • Franklyn FarnumFactory Worker (uncredited)
  • Jack GarganBusinessman at Meeting (uncredited)
  • Everett GlassMr. La Porte (uncredited)
  • Kenner G. KempBusinessman at Meeting (uncredited)
  • Knox ManningHimself (uncredited)
  • Mike MillerUndetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
  • Irving PichelOff Screen Narrator of Woody Woodpecker Cartoon (voice) (uncredited) / Director
  • Cosmo SardoBusinessman at Meeting (uncredited)
  • Grace StaffordWoody Woodpecker (voice) (uncredited)
  • Bert StevensBusinessman at Meeting (uncredited)
  • Ted WardeBrown (uncredited)
  • Robert A. HeinleinScreenplay
  • Alford Van RonkelScreenplay
  • James O'HanlonScreenplay
  • Stian Andreassen30 mars 2026
    Co-authored by Robert Heinlein, it plays out more as a procedural – Building a Rocketship and Flying it to the Moon for Dummies – rather than a character driven story. Heinlein was a unsentimental hard science kind of guy, so there’s no warmth from or between the characters. It’s a kind of gung ho American patriotism, where captains of industry take it upon themselves to achieve what the government can’t or won’t prioritize financially; to land men on the moon and win the space race – eleven years before the start of the Apollo program. It has some really nice set pieces, like the command module of the rocketship, and the Lunar surface, and those space suits are beatific.

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