UK Satellite

SATELLITE IN THE SKY-1956-Great Britain is getting ready to send some kind of manned rocket into space (Project Stardust). Commander Hayden (Kieron Moore) is in charge. The war office wants the ship to take along a “J-Bomb”, more powerful than a hydrogen bomb. Larry Noble (Jimmy Hanley) is another astronaut. A woman reporter (Lois Maxwell) stows away on the ship. A pompous military scientist (Donald Wolfit)) is in charge of releasing the bomb into space but there's a screw up and the bomb attaches itself to the ship. Hayden takes a space walk but to no avail. They seem to have no choice but to stay up in space and die when the bomb explodes. The army scientist (Donald Grey) and Lefty (Barry Keegan), the ship's engineer sacrifice themselves to save everyone. Very talky and unexciting. 

The cheesy effects were provided by Wally Veevers who later worked with Stanley Kubrick on 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. Director Paul Dickson had done documentaries and short films and later went into TV.

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