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| Title: SPACEWAYS Year: 1953 Rating: ** |
Before their famous Victorian horror flicks, Hammer Films did either film noir crime or science fiction, making SPACEWAYS a cross between both but mostly mystery as two people vanish inside a headquarters along with a rocket that blasted into space to become a satellite... and it's imported American actor Howard Duff, friends and partners with a pretty scientist prettier than the wife who'd gone missing with a womanizing doctor she'd been cheating with...
Both stories pan out practically side by side... a shame because the sci-fi rocket aspect... especially during the early 1950's... feels straight from one of those space magazines from that era... having more potential than whoever might've killed two unlikable characters and possibly sent them into outer space on that rocket... a lesson for Hammer to stick with one genre or the other: in five years hitting the bigger leagues with good sci-fi including the QUATERMASS while horror classics DRACULA and FRANKENSTEIN weren't far behind.
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| Howard Duff and Eva Bartok in SPACEWAYS |
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| Howard Duff and Eva Bartok in SPACEWAYS |
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| Doomed cheating couple Andrew Osborn and Cecile Chevreau in SPACEWAYS |
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| Michael Medwin and (doomed wife) Cecile Chevreau in SPACEWAYS |
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| Howard Duff and Eva Bartok in SPACEWAYS |
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| Philip Leaver in SPACEWAYS |
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| Alan Wheatley in SPACEWAYS |
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| Howard Duff and Eva Bartok in SPACEWAYS |
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