Riders To The Stars - Herbert Marshall, Richard Carlson

[EllisonRules]

I remember watching this on Creature Features in the early 70's(Saturday night at 8:00 and repeated the following Saturday afternoon at 2:00 (preceded or followed by the Rifleman and Combat!)on New York's WNEW Metromedia Channel 5--

[dewey44]

I saw this movie at the Wicker Park theater in Chicago in the summer of 1954. I was only ten at the time, but I thought it was a good movie.

[theshadow1932]

Check the guy with the glasses. Nice to know that Harold Lloyd was still working in '54!

[Lunamation]

Herbert Marshall, a star in his own rite in the '30s.

[JubalCalif]

@Lunamation

How true! A huge star on both stage and screen...and in spite of losing a leg in WWI. He handled the handicap so well that it resulted in only a slight limp when he walked. Good for him!  A handsome, intelligent, urbane, suave, debonair & witty gentleman. Classy...inside & out! :)

[scotpens]

Typical Ivan Tors nuts-and-bolts sci-fi. And with a title song, no less!

[JubalCalif]

@scotpens

The theme song is a hoot! The only sci fi flick I've ever seen that had a romantic ballad play under the opening credits! Have always loved the work of British born actor Herbert Marshall....especially his voice!

[scotpens]

@JubalCalif  Then you've never seen "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" (1961) or "Journey to the Seventh Planet" (1962)?

[ChaseWinstead97]

@JubalCalif If you like this song, you need to catch "Journey to the Seventh Planet" from 1961 - although in that case the romantic ballad is played during the end credits. Just as funny as this one!

[JubalCalif]

@ChaseWinstead97

Wow!  Thanks for the "heads up" about the music in "Journey to the Seventh Planet"! Is that the one where they send up an astronaut who is also a proctologist in order to find out if there really are rings around Uranus ??? :-)

[dianakittylady]

I remember seeing this on tv in the early 70's as  a little kid, creature features or chiller theater in the nyc. area they wanted to capture a meteor in space ,to find out how they survived the heat of entry into earth amosphere or something along these lines They had 2or 3 manned rockets equiped with extendable scoop they discover there coated with diamond chrystals or something Whare in the world did you get this clip on a comment by EarlyFilms they said TMC really they showed this movie!

[Jules996]

I remember seeing this film in its commercial release, when I was a kid. The premise was that researchers needed to collect a meteor to determine how they survive re-entry (actually, they ablate). The secret is revealed at the end- "pure, crystalized carbon." Gee, that's simple- heat shields coated with diamonds!

[EarlyFilms]

I can't believe I missed this on TCM the other morning! I'll be checking their schedule more closely from now on. I've never seen it broadcast in color. Thanks for posting. A DVD release is long overdue.

[neutronnorman]

I agree. This movie, which I haven't seen since I was a child, was the last "hard" sci fi movie from the fifties. I now understand the plot. I remeber when Gordon's bodie flew past Richard's port hole. That scared the crap out of me. Great post.

[RonaldVaughan]

The end title music is memorable...as is

the diamond caught in a bucket...you'd have

to have seen the movie...