Nude on the Moon (1961)

Wonderful character development!

Excellent but underrated film

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

This must be be one of the most wickedly funny films ever made - and I have to hand it to the Yanks because I really don't think any other country could come up with anything more ridiculously sublime - only in the land of the free and the home of the brave could an elderly randy scientist inherit enough cash from a deceased relative to mount his own personal moon landing project - and be accompanied of course by his equally randy but impoverished protégé. What follows is delightfully preposterous yet totally inevitable: a range of fairly well endowed women wearing bikini briefs and nothing else, who, when presented with a chocolate bar eat the wrapper and discard the chocolate. As another commentator has observed (I paraphrase ) if this is pornography it is pornography for all the family - totally inoffensive; and yes, if you are really hard up, possibly a bit of WM if you can cast your mind back to what was available in 1961.

This is a remarkable look at what passed for racy in 1961. Though it promises sex, it actually delivers a healthy suntanned nudist colony travel flick set in South Florida. The amount of cheap is astounding! The rocket ship interior is actually an old DC-6 prop job probably left to rust at Opa Locka airport near Miami. The moon colony is Florida's wierdball Coral Castle (though the director did manage to not show the traffic passing on nearby US 1.) The space helmets and rockets are toys available in any toy store of those years (I played with some in the film as a kid.) and the spacesuits are paper mache. I doubt the producers paid any of the nudie cuties (some not so cute), probably harvested from an actual nature colony, several of which are still located in the area. Science is totally ignored as the moon has not only Earth gravity, but also blue skies and white fluffy clouds that look like, um, South Florida. And the supposedly unmarried star actor hasn't bothered to remove his wedding ring.The best thing about the film was the cool 1959 Pontiac convertible the stars drive to the spaceport, even if it does have a dent in the left side. Still, the film was good for a laugh, and a sense of awe of what could be passed off as a theatrical flick in those days. Get it from Netflix. What can you lose?

A year after Jack Kennedy proposed going to the moon, this little thing appeared, presumably in the few city theaters that skirted pornography laws by showing fake documentaries of nudist camps. Some camps encouraged filming in a combination of exhibitionism, funding of their camp and (for some) promoting the paradigm.Porn crusader Doris Wishman's first films slid into this genre, stretching it by adding a story. The story in this case is in the class of several others that are designed to be acceptably cheesy. In this case, two clearly inept scientists doze off while in their "ship." We see things from the younger scientist's mind, where he imagines just what you'd expect: a destination with simple, lovely topless women.Like "Robot Monster" and a dozen others I've seen this year, most recently "Harriet the Spy" which shares other characteristics with this.The oddest thing is how unattractive (and old) are the women, though the men are thoroughly buff. Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.

This has got to be one of the cheesiest films ever. But it's great for that alone! Awful script (what there is of it), awful "effects", and awful-looking bodies! But hey, what else do you want for night-time viewing?! Watch it, it's an experience.