 Rooney and Peter Lorre put their own money together to finance it, and thus gave Pichel, the blacklist already looming over him, one of his last Hollywood films.Striking out in another nascent genre, Pichel pioneered scientific authenticity in an early Technicolor science fiction film "Destination Moon" (1950), produced by George Pal.It won the Oscar for Special Visual Effects, for effects director, Lee Zavitz.