Missile to the Moon is a 1958 independently made American black-and-white science fiction film drama, produced by Marc Frederic, directed by Richard E. Cunha, that stars Richard Travis, Cathy Downs, and K. T. Stevens. The film was distributed by Astor Pictures and is a remake of an earlier Astor Pictures-distributed film, Cat-Women of the Moon (1953). Missile to the Moon was released in late 1958 as a double feature with Cunha's Frankenstein's Daughter. A spaceship blasts off from Earth with five aboard, but one of them is secretly a Moon man returning home. He dies by accident during the trip to Luna. What the remaining four find waiting for them when they arrive on the Moon is well beyond their expectations: huge rock creatures, giant lunar spiders, and a cave-dwelling civilization made up of beautiful women. Plot Two escaped convicts, Gary (Tommy Cook) and Lon (Gary Clarke), are discovered hiding aboard a rocket by scientist Dirk Green (Michael Whalen), who then forces them to pilot the spaceship to the Moon. Dirk, who is secretly a Moon man, wants to return home. Dirk's partner Steve Dayton (Richard Travis) and Steve's fiancée June (Cathy Downs) are accidentally trapped aboard just before the rocketship blasts off from Earth. Moon man Dirk is later accidentally killed in a meteor storm during the lunar trip. Once they land on the Moon, the spaceship's reluctant crew encounter deception and intrigue when they discover an underground kingdom made up of beautiful women and their sinister female ruler, the Lido (K. T. Stevens). While on the Moon, the Earthers encounter surface-dwelling, slow-moving, bipedal large rock creatures that try to crush them. They must also contend with a cave-dwelling, not-so-giant spider that attacks them. Cast Richard Travis as Steve Dayton Cathy Downs as June Saxton K. T. Stevens as the Lido Tommy Cook as Gary Gary Clarke as Lon Michael Whalen as Dirk Green Nina Bara as Alpha Laurie Mitchell as Lambda Marjorie Hellen (Leslie Parrish) as Zema Henry Hunter as Colonel Wickers Lee Roberts as Sheriff Cramer Pat Mowry as Moon girl Tania Velia as Moon girl Sanita Pelkey as Moon girl Lisa Simone as Moon girl Mary Ford as Moon girl Marianne Gaba as Moon girl Sandra Wirth as Moon girl Production Missile to the Moon is an even lower-budget remake of the low-budget science fiction film drama Cat-Women of the Moon (1953) and closely follows the