A strange missile from outer space circles the Earth at low altitudes, destroying everything in its path.A strange missile from outer space circles the Earth at low altitudes, destroying everything in its path.A strange missile from outer space circles the Earth at low altitudes, destroying everything in its path.
Phillip Pine
- Dr. Joe Freed
- (as Philip Pine)
Fred Engelberg
- TV Singer
- (as Fred Engleberg)
Shirley J. Shawn
- Black Woman by Piano
- (as Shirley Shawn)
Cecil Elliott
- Harold's Wife
- (as Cecil Elliot)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaOriginal director William Berke died of a sudden heart attack on the first day of shooting. His son, Lester Wm. Berke, took over.
- GoofsWith less than four minutes before Jove launches, the lead character secures the plutonium, drives the long distance to the missile base, gets to the launch pad, goes up to the Jove warhead on a slow-moving lift, places the plutonium inside, arms all the warhead mechanisms and gets back to ground and away from the Jove rocket, all in less than four minutes.
- Quotes
Dr. David Loring: There must be at least two million children in New York. I wonder how many will get out alive.
- Crazy creditsOpening credits shown over a missile flying through a group of stars.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Weirdo with Wadman: The Lost Missile (1964)
Featured review
THE LOST MISSILE (Lester William Berke, 1958) **
I had never heard of this one before it turned up on Cable TV. It's very typical of late 50s sci-fi: sober, depressing and not a little paranoid! Despite the equally typical inclusion of a romantic couple, the film is pretty much put across in a documentary style - which is perhaps a cheap way of leaving a lot of the exposition to narration and an excuse to insert as much stock footage as is humanly possibly for what is unmistakably an extremely low-budget venture! While not uninteresting in itself (the-apocalypse-via-renegade-missile angle later utilized, with far greater aplomb, for both DR. STRANGELOVE [1964] and FAIL-SAFE [1964]) and mercifully short, the film's single-minded approach to its subject matter results in a good deal of unintentional laughter - particularly in the scenes involving an imminent childbirth and a gang of clueless juvenile delinquents!
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- Das rote Telefon... Alarm!
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- Runtime1 hour 10 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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