The Lost Missile (1958)
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Directors
William Berke
Cast
Robert Loggia, Ellen Parker, Philip Pine, Larry Kerr, Marilee Earle
The story
The appearance of an unknown "missile-like" object in nearby space leads a European nation (unnamed, but implied to be one of the countries behind the Iron Curtain) to fire a rocket at it. Though the rocket intercepts the unidentified object, the explosion only diverts the missile into an orbit around the Earth. Racing five miles above the earth, tremendous heat from its rocket engine causes widespread devastation of the land below.
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Sci-Fi, science fiction film
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