Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

LeonLouisRicci First off, this Film has been around in Awful Pan & Scan and Black & White versions (if you can believe it) for quite a While. It is finally Available in all its Widescreen and Color Glory. It still Remains a relatively Unknown and Little Seen British Sci-Fi Entry from the Fifties.Made before and released Prior to Sputnik it is a Curious and Slick looking Film. The SFX, while certainly Dated hold their own among others of its Type, including the George Pal Stuff. The Rocket Ship is Cool and there is some Attention to Detail and Overall the Movie looks Fifties Nifty.The Story is very Slow Moving in the First Half, Talky and may rely a bit Heavy on Domestic Issues concerning Love Life and such and the Technical High-Light of the First Half are some Very Modern Jet Fighters Zipping About.The Second Half, in Space, Things Tense up quite a bit and there's a lot of Talk about Bombs, and the End of War and Science's Responsibility, not to Mention Governments. Most of the Argument comes from a Female Reporter who Not Only is Philosophically Minded, but looks like a Model and makes Great Coffee and Sandwiches.Overall, this is a Serious Adult-Oriented Space Adventure that is Definitely Worth a Watch and Despite its common Flaws Typical of others in the Genre, it has enough to Offer Sci-Fi Fans and others Interested in the Mindset of the Decade Concerning Space Travel and Nuclear Warfare. Underrated.

Hitchcoc We can forgive them because it was 1956, but this is a real pedestrian space yarn with a lot of holes in it. It's in the middle of the Cold War and the development of a rocket to the stratosphere is commandeered to test a bomb-to-end-all-bombs. This will create what we in the late 20th Century called detente. Even the crew is ignorant of the whole process, but some government zealots go off half cocked with little regard for the dangers, in order to scare the world out of developing any further weapons, fighting any future wars. Of course, the whole thing has to go off just right, and we know it isn't. Once again we have the obligatory pushy female (a reporter who stows away on the rocket) who pushes everyone's buttons. Just to show you what a progressive time she lives in, she ends up making coffee and sandwiches for the guys. There is the idea that science is advancing too fast. In the end, this is a movie about dealing with the realities of miscalculation. The slipshod methods make this less than it could have been. It does have decent special effects or its time.

Scott_Mercer This is one of those 1950's serious science fiction space travel extravaganzas in color, but one of the only British ones. They predicted a lot of things right, got a few things wrong (we still have not militarized space, thank goodness), but still it is amazing that this film was made in 1956, even prior to Sputnik going up.The model work of the spaceship/rocket is top notch for 1956, even if it doesn't fool one living soul in 2013.We're all here for the action stuff about test flights and launching the rocket, and the (inevitable) Crisis In Outer Space (tm) that all serious science fiction efforts seem to gravitate (har har) toward.We're here less so for the political back story, machinations and intrigue, and philosophical battle about the value of taking risks and the sense of discovery that science provides contrasted with all those other issues that require money down here on li'l old Earth, which goes on between the Space Cadet commander and the Spunky Female Reporter (tm also). Did women have ANY profession other than reporter in a movie made prior to 1967? And we're definitely not here for the limp attempts at delving into some of the characters' love lives.But this is entertaining for its time. There are some slow bits, true, but ultimately they do not forget about what we are all there to see, and we get back to glamour shots of the spaceship eventually.If you're a fan of 1950's science fiction, and you haven't seen it, you could do a lot worse than Satellite in the Sky.

Woodyanders A courageous crew led by the rugged and valiant Commander Michael Haydon (an excellent performance by Kieron Moore) guide a stratospheric jet rocket ship on the first space flight; their mission is the first outer space detonation of a tritonium bomb, but alas things go awry and the men find themselves in great peril. Director Paul Dickson, working from a bright and thoughtful script by John Mather, J.T. McIntosh, and Edith Dell, relates the absorbing story at a steady pace, puts a welcome and refreshing emphasis on the engaging characters during the opening half of the picture, and develops a reasonable amount of suspense in the second part of the movie. Moreover, there's uniformly sound and sincere acting from solid cast: Moore makes for a properly strong and stalwart hero, the lovely Lois Maxwell (Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond films) delivers a winningly tart portrayal of snoopy reporter Kim Hamilton (she stows away on the ship), plus there are fine supporting turns by Donald Wolfit as the austere Professor Merrity, Bryan Forbes as the eager Jimmy Wheeler, Jimmy Hanley as the cheery Larry Noble, Barry Keegan as the dour, hardy "Lefty" Blake, Thea Gregory as Larry's snippy, fed-up wife Barbara, and Shirley Lawrence as Jimmy's sweet, cute girlfriend Ellen. The polished widescreen color cinematography by Georges Perinal and James Wilson makes artful occasional use of fades and dissolves while the stirring, majestic score by Albert Elms hits the spirited spot. The special effects are merely passable at best. An intelligent and entertaining little winner.