i completely understand the historical significance of rocketship x m and but that doesn not make it a good movie . to begin with and the plot ( or what there be of it ) be dull and lifeless . five astronaut blast off for the moon they get knock off course and end up on mar ( huh . ) caveman look martian throw rock at them they return to earth and meet a fiery death the end . believe it or not and but this pithy plot description make it sound much more interesting than it really be . to make matter bad and john emery character and dr. karl eckstrom and feel it necessary to give long draw out speech on everything from the nature of man to the danger of nuclear weapon . it just a thrill a minute ( sarcasm intend ) . look back at rocketship x m almost 60 year later and i would call the portrayal of woman funny if it weren not all so sad and misguided . there be a number of example i could cite and but there one exchange of dialogue just after take off between the male chauvinist pilot floyd ( play by the irritating and plastic haired lloyd bridge ) and dr. lisa van horn ( the only female crewmember and the constant object of floyd often creepy attention ) that illustrate the film attitude toward woman quite nicely represent  floyd represent i have be wonder and how do a girl like you get mixed up in a thing like this in the first place .  dr. van horn represent i suppose you think that woman should only cook and sew and bear child .  floyd represent isn not that enough . i think floyd should have stay behind with the caveman .