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...Cold War did not confine themselves to a single genre. The semi-documentary “Panic in the Streets” (Elia Kazan, 1950), the noir masterpiece “The Third Man” (Carol Reed, 1949), and the low-budget sci-fi romp “Rocketship X-M” (Kurt Neumann, 1950), are equally suffused with dread, uncertainty, and black humor...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hoberman Reveals Cinema’s Cold War Secrets | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

...condition of the sale, the VFW post will continue to operate part of the building, and will retain some current features—including on-site parking and a towering model rocketship, implanted into the facade and a testament to its year of construction...

Author: By Virginia A. Fisher and Brendan R. Linn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: City Dancers Search for Space | 2/14/2006 | See Source »

...Before we actually tried it, space travel was a whole lot easier. See Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953). So simple a janitor (Bud) and a half-wit (Lou) could stumble onto a big silver sausage of a rocketship, flip a few switches, and go all the way to . . . Mardi Gras. Then Venus, with all the usual misadventures and comic contortions along the way. The code term for this is "classic comedy." It's a warning, because it's dated. Soft spots, stiff acting by supporting players, and yet A & C fans (you know who you are) are watching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Final Potato | 3/7/1998 | See Source »

Mystery Science Theater 3000 (Comedy Channel). While we watch campy old movies (Rocketship X-M; The Corpse Vanishes), three outer-space wisecrackers provide tongue-in-cheek patter from the front row. This goofy stunt, first cooked up for a Minneapolis UHF station, is funnier than it has any right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of '90: TV | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

Mystery Science Theater 3000 has origins in the heartland as well: the show began life on a Minneapolis UHF station before being picked up last November by cable's Comedy Channel. Crummy old movies (Rocketship X-M, The Corpse Vanishes) are unspooled in their entirety, while three characters -- one human being and two gabby robots -- offer wisecracking commentary at the bottom of the screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: My In-Law, The Housefly | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

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