(Recorded) Movie Thoughts: Countdown

The science fiction movies month on Turner Classic Movies devoted one Tuesday evening to “moon movies,” appropriate enough given Apollo 11’s anniversary. I’d already seen Destination Moon and For All Mankind, but the other drama sandwiching the documentary was one I hadn’t got to yet for all that I had recorded it to DVD from the channel before. Having just watched an early “rocket to the moon” movie, I thought it would be interesting to get to one released just before the actual event, even as I contemplated how Marooned had a minor presence in the histories of science fiction movies I’ve read but I hadn’t been aware of Countdown until I’d happened on it on TCM.
( Rocket to the moon )