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Stowaway to the Moon(1975)
Status: Released
Date: 1975-01-10
58%
8 Votes
Time: 1h 40m
Overview:
E.J. Mackernutt, Jr., an 11-year-old boy who has always been fascinated by space and astronauts, sneaks into Cape Kennedy and becomes a stowaway on a spaceship scheduled for a lunar landing. After he is discovered, NASA at first cancels the landing, but E.J. and the astronauts convince them to go forward with it. Problems arise when one of the astronauts is incapacitated by illness and the other two are stranded on the moon's surface, but E.J. is able to command the space capsule and save the day.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies: 
A MOR-Film Fare
Alan Neuman Productions
Movie: Stowaway to the Moon
Top 10 Billed Cast
Lloyd Bridges
Charlie Englehardt
Jeremy Slate
Astronaut Capt. Rick Lawrence
Jim McMullan
Astronaut Ben Pelham
Morgan Paull
Astronaut Dave Anderson
John Carradine
Jacob Avril
Charles Conrad
Himself
Walter Brooke
Whitehead
Keene Curtis
Tom Estes
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E.J. Mackernutt, Jr., an 11-year-old boy who has always been fascinated by space and astronauts, sneaks into Cape Kennedy and becomes a stowaway on a spaceship scheduled for a lunar landing. After he is discovered, NASA at first cancels the landing, but E.J. and the astronauts convince them to go forward with it. Problems arise when one of the astronauts is incapacitated by illness and the other two are stranded on the moon's surface, but E.J. is able to command the space capsule and save the day.
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1975-01-10
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5.8
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