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Four men and one woman hold a hasty press conference before blasting off into space in the ''RXM'' (Rocketship Expedition Moon). But a miscalculation in the fuel mixture sends the RXM hurtling off at tremendous velocity, knocking the crew unconscious. Upon waking they discover they're near the planet Mars. Deciding they might as well explore that planet instead, the crew land to discover the remnants of an alien culture literally "bombed back to the Stone Age" after a nuclear war.

 

Nevertheless ''Rocketship X-M'' was a great success at the box office and has garnered some staunch fans over the years. One of them -- producer Wade Williams -- spent six years tracking down a fine grain print of the film which he then restored, even reshooting some of the scenes with special effects models and doubles of the original actors.

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* [[After the End]]: Mars

* [[All Planets Are Earthlike]]: Averted in that [[California Doubling|California's Death Valley doubles for Mars]], which is actually quite similar (NASA tested some of its Mars equipment there). But apparently war-surplus jumpsuits and oxygen masks are all you need to walk around on the surface.

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