Tag: Irving Pichel

• First of the Fifties

    Movie producer George Pal with Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis   Destination Moon produced by George Pal, is widely considered the first science fiction film to attempt a high level of accurate technical detail. Filmed in Technicolor, based on a book by Robert Heinlein, adapted for the screen by Alford Van Ronkel and James O’Hanlon,…

  Bill Ectric

  July 10, 2014

  Alford Van Ronkel, Chelsey Bonestell, Destination Moon, Dick Wesson, Erin O’Brien-Moore, Film, George Pal, Irving Pichel, James O’Hanlon, Robert Heinlein, rockets, Rocketship X-M, Science Fiction, Scott Ashlin, space travel, Tom Powers, Warner Anderson