Miss Moneypenny In Space!

A Warner Brothers Home Video '50s-era Sci-Fi double-bill is available now on DVD exclusively at Best Buy... and I had to run out this morning to make sure I snagged a copy. One is World Without End (1956) about a mission to Mars that goes terribly awry when the crew is sent hurtling into the future because of a strange space/time warp. They find the world decimated by a nuclear war and on top of the earth are mutated cave men and giant rubber spiders. The normal people live underground in fabulous nifty space outfits. It's directed by Edward Bernds, who also brought us the fabulously stupid Queen Of Outer Space (1958) starring Zsa Zsa Gabor.

The other feature on this double-DVD is Satellite in the Sky (1956) an incredibly talky British film directed by Paul Dickson about a space flight called "Operation Stardust" which is used to detonate an atomic bomb in space as a demonstration to the world of its destructive power and the "futility of war." Lois Maxwell (Miss Moneypenny from the James Bond films) plays a reporter who stows herself away on the ship only to discover the bomb will not disengage. Now how can you pass up seeing Miss Moneypenny in space?