Word: moonship
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...Moon (Michael Relph; Trans-Lux) is a noodly British farce made by a crew of subversives who have obviously heard more than they care to hear about astronauts and rocket scientists. It seems that the National Atomic Research, Spaceship Testing and Information Bureau (NARSTI) wants to test its new moonship with a guinea pig before sending up a crew of expensively trained cosmonauts. He must be a human guinea pig, because a guinea-pig guinea pig would be an affront to the animal-doting British public. NARSTI's choice is a cheerful clod (Kenneth More) who has been fired...
...young lady (Shirley Anne Field) whose profession requires her to leap out of cakes at stag parties without icing distracts the hero for a time. But at last the moonship is fired. The scientists wait tensely for news. After two days it comes. Rocket haters will be cheered to learn that the first thing More sees at his landing site is a Heinz baked-bean...