Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Red-Barracuda A couple of inhabited planets are on a collision course. The space federation called the United Worlds warns the rulers of both planets of the deadly situation. The problem is that the ruler of one of the planets, Ophesius, is an evil queen who wants nothing to do with the United Worlds. When she finally accepts the situation, rather than organise a mass evacuation she decides to simply blow the other planet up.This was made up into a feature film by merging a few episodes of the Rocky Jones Space Ranger TV series together. Like a lot of sci-fi films of the 50's it has cold war undertones. The planet Ophesius represent communist thinking in the way that they refuse to join up with everybody else and are only interested in themselves. Well, more accurately, this is how Americans in the 50's mostly thought of communists, as opposed to any particular accuracy of depiction. Whatever the case, you don't need to know this and the film works as a space adventure. Personally I found it interminable but others with a keen interest in 50's sci-fi may well completely disagree. But I think this one is even going to try their patience somewhat.

jonathan-577 By all appearances this serial could have been made any time since the mid forties. The cardboard sets, the moon kings with lightning bolts sewn onto their aprons, you know the drill. This one is a Rocky Jones adventure, featuring the space cop's dealings with the insufferable Bitch Queen of planet Offeecious, a commie planet that won't join the United Planets. When the noble messengers of intergalactic reason announce that Offeecious is on a collision course with this other, vaguely Slavic planet, Bitch Queen decides to blow the other guys up rather than evacuate her land. This introduces a moral to the effect of "The greatness of a nation is not in its land, but its people," which is hammered home five or six times in the climactic talkfest. The BQ's constant nasal ranting about "OffEEEEcious" provides relief from some seriously wanting space effects, is this a TV show?

classicsoncall Take your best shot at "Crash of Moons", but I found the film to be fairly entertaining, with some unique story elements and special effects that come off as pretty original for the mid 1950's. I've been overdosing on sci-fi films of the era recently, and must say that it's a lot better than some of the space turkeys that came out a decade later, like "Voyage To The Prehistoric Planet" and "Zontar The Thing From Venus". Part of it's appeal for me included the well done orbiting space station OW-9, and the use of creative space jargon to describe futuristic technology like the 'viseograph', the 'astrophone' and 'tortanic' missiles.The hero of the piece is Space Ranger Rocky Jones (Richard Crane), the movie spliced together from episodes of the mid '50's television program. It's not hard to see where some of the imagination for Star Trek's Captain Kirk came from. Confident and take charge, Rocky seemed to be wherever the ladies were present, though without Kirk's overworked libido. His team includes the leggy Vena Ray, adequately portrayed by Sally Mansfield.The story line is also fairly imaginative, with two gypsy moons linked together by an atmosphere chain that initially threatens the space station, and then takes up an orbit that may destroy another planet. Ophecious is ruled by a hawkish space queen named Cleolanta (Patsy Parsons), who views the threat of rogue moon Placida as a United Worlds plot to destroy her planet and her rule.If you're a fan of 'B' Westerns, you'll have no trouble recognizing a couple of faces that made dozens of cowboy flicks each. Harry Lauter is Cleolanta's right hand man Atlasan, while her lieutenant is veteran Lane Bradford. Nan Leslie, who also made her mark in a fair number of Western films, is Atlasan's wife Trinka, the voice of reason on Ophecious who is anxious to accept Rocky Jones' help to save her planet's people. Meeting her prompts Rocky's sidekick Winky (Scotty Beckett) to remark - "Hey Rocky, who is that luscious trail of star dust anyway?" Perhaps the surprise member of the cast for trivia fans is the character Bavarro, who a dozen years later would become the perfect foil for Colonel Hogan on the popular series "Hogan's Heroes". I didn't make the connection at first, but will have to go back to review John Banner's scenes to measure the resemblance.OK, it's dated, black and white, and has moments when the non action simply plods along, but overall I found "Crash of Moons" to be likable enough. It helps that the players themselves didn't seem to take the whole thing too seriously, as they looked to be in the spirit of things, all with a straight face. I wonder how much practice that took, as some of those space uniforms looked downright out of this world in a genuinely 'out there' sort of way.

InzyWimzy Oh boy! I really trashed Manhunt in Space. I think this flopper deservedly rates worse than Manhunt. It goes nowhere and fungi growth was more exciting than this tripe.Poor Cleolanta. She's so misunderstood. Smug Rocky struts around and thankfully, there's no mention from Winky about his "gay nightlife". There's a lot more talking, a really awful (to watch) space marriage on the rocks, and crappy space effects cut-outs. Then, there's Bobby. You decide who's more annoying: Bobby or the Winkster? Personally, I'd jettison them out of an airlock into a black hole not before first subjecting them to killer flesh eating alien mutants.At least there's Vena. She's just a cosmic girl!