It's strange how time can make a bad science fiction movie turn into a political commentary.
In this case, the movie is "Rocketship X-M" made in 1950 by Kurt Neumann. To sum up the plot, a remarkably young and heroic Lloyd Bridges leads Earth's first trip to the moon in a rocket with a guy from Texas, an astronomer turned navigator, the patriarchal scientist who designed the ship and his lovely female assistant.
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