RIDERS TO THE STARS

RIDERS TO THE STARS
   Film (1954). Ivan Tors/United Artists. Dir Richard Carlson, starring William Lundigan, Herbert Marshall, Richard Carlson, Martha Hyer. Screenplay Curt SIODMAK. 81 mins. Colour.
   Cosmic rays are destroying space vehicles, and the theory is put forward that meteors possess a special quality that protects them in space. Manned spaceships with special scoops on their noses are sent up to capture meteors before they burn up in the atmosphere so that their coating - which turns out to be diamond! - can be used to protect spaceships. The story has been rightly singled out by Damon KNIGHT as a splendid example of all that is silliest and mostunscientific in sf CINEMA, from which much of its value as entertainment unintentionally derives. Riders to the Stars * (1953), as by Siodmak and Robert (Eugene) Smith (1920-), is the novelization.
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