Stowaway to the Moon
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- Runtime
- 100 mins
E.J. Mackernutt, Jr., an 11-year-old boy who has always been fascinated by space and astronauts, sneaks into Cape Kennedy and becomes a stowaway on a spaceship scheduled for a lunar landing. After he is discovered, NASA at first cancels the landing, but E.J. and the astronauts convince them to go forward with it. Problems arise when one of the astronauts is incapacitated by illness and the other two are stranded on the moon's surface, but E.J. is able to command the space capsule and save the day.
E.J. Mackernutt, Jr., an 11-year-old boy who has always been fascinated by space and astronauts, sneaks into Cape Kennedy and becomes a stowaway on a spaceship scheduled for a lunar landing. After he is discovered, NASA at first cancels the landing, but E.J. and the astronauts convince them to go forward with it. Problems arise when one of the astronauts is incapacitated by illness and the other two are stranded on the moon's surface, but E.J. is able to command the space capsule and save the day.
Cast
- Lloyd Bridges
- Jeremy Slate
- Jim McMullan
- Morgan Paull
- Michael Link
- John Carradine
- Jack Callahan
- Charles Conrad
- Walter Brooke
- Keene Curtis
- Edward Faulkner
- Jon Cedar
- Barbara Faulkner
- Stephen Rogers
Director
- Andrew V. McLaglen
Producers
- John Cutts