What movie did you guys watch? Quick rule of thumb, if the movie starts out with a deadly serious-voiced narrator and he continues to appear throughout the flick in order to tell the audience what's going on because there's no way in hell that they'd be able to follow it without him....you're not watching a classic, unless what you're talking about is a classic piece of crap! Another clue that a movie is a big waste of time and money is if it requires tons of stock footage just to drag the time out so it can qualify as a feature length presentation. The only padding trick this pile of dreck lacks is a visit to a nightclub where an attractive lady eats up another 5 minutes belting out a peppy show tune. Dreadfully under-budgeted and saddled with lackluster direction, the movie features brief clips of some poorly conceived and executed "special" effects sandwiched between long, drawn-out episodes of "drama" that would have been laughably bad on a daytime soap opera. The acting comes in two flavors: deadpan and overblown. Maybe the reason that all the sci-fi geeks like this flick is because it features an appearance of that beloved science fiction stereotype; the scientist that wants the deaths to continue in the vain hope that they can communicate with the alien menace!! What fun! Near as I can figure the moral of this movie is that all the selfish women out there should stop bitching that their scientist husbands and boyfriends are too busy working 7 days a week building lots of nukes to be by their side for the birth of their child or marry them! C'mon ladies! The ending is unintentionally hilarious as our scientist hero drives a rod of deadly plutonium through the panicked streets of New York City in order to deliver it in time to their new super duper Job rocket, the only rocket able to get close enough to the alien missle to blow it up. One would get the impression that the transportation of dangerous radioactive material through am major metropolitan area is routine. Believe me, it's not. It has never been allowed, ever. Now, mind you, they have already established that helicopters are transporting all the eggheads out of NYC in order to protect their brilliant skulls, but nobody thinks to fly the plutonium to its destination. Ludicrous. So, wouldn't you know that while our hero speeds along the highway with his deadly cargo he runs smack dab into that other beloved stereotype of 50's movies; the gang of hot rod delinquents, complete with greased back hair and switch blade knives. The gang steals the jeep and the box containing the deadly rod. When the hero catches up with the jeep the box is open and the gang has vanished. Exposing himself to lethal doses of radiation our hero drives to his destination and manages to arm the Job just before he gives up the ghost. I was wishing that everybody involved with this bore-fest could have been stuffed into the jeep with him! Avoid this one unless you need a cure for insomnia.

This cheaply made science fiction disaster film is so low budget that it goes from poverty row reputation to blue light special. Mostly indoor scenery with cheaply filmed shots of possible animated rockets represent an alien attack. Obvious stock footage looks like a bad newsreel or school made documentary. Few efforts to make this a human drama where a scientist's fiancé breaks up with him because she thinks that he values science more than her, while a pregnant wife of an army officer struggles to get in touch with her husband. But in spite of how badly made this is, there is something moderately endearing about it, made with such innocence that you can't totally hate it. How many future film makers must have seen this as kids and been inspired to make better versions of the same story could be interview questions because elements of plot do developments of this are used in every disaster film that I've seen over the past 20 years. Some scenes are pretty shocking, literally as one panic stricken character finds while trying to escape down a New York City subway track. Acting is mostly amateurish and the pacing at times is painfully lethargic. This doesn't seem like a theatrical film, but obviously got some big screen release even though it probably looked ten times poorer than it does on television. Narration makes me call this Plan Six from Outer Space.

We never do find out who sent The Lost Missile if it was aliens or some earth power who was utterly mad. Boy would Isis like to get a hold of one of these.This missile looks like one of your rocketship from some old science fiction movie, only it emanates heat of a million degrees as it passes over the earth destroying all in its path. Imagine an snow covered tundra region burned to a crisp as it passes over. That's what this thing does. No one to contact and reason with about The Lost Missile, humankind must bring whatever scientific knowledge to bear to destroy this thing. It takes out Ottawa in Canada and is heading for New York.A bigger budget with some nice production values and this could have been a science fiction classic. As it is the best parts are the vignettes of ordinary people trying to cope with a sudden impending catastrophe.The Lost Missile is worth a look only to see how much it could have been improved.

I saw this film when it first came out. I found the idea frightening in a way since we humans don't know what is REALLY out there. Life most certainly is out there and at all levels of development. This movie is about an alien rocket that got away from its "owners" and heads out into the galaxy. We never see the alien owners, but the story is centered around earth's scientists and astronomers seeing the object approaching earth at a fantastic speed and about to hit the earth. The German government decided to launch rockets up into space just as the missile approaches and inadvertantly knocks it into earth orbit at a very low altitude. As the missile passes over land and sea the one million degree heat and shockwave it creates as it passes obliterates and burns to cinders all in its path. There are some really notable and scary scenes showing this effect. It took a nuclear device to destroy the missile.If you get a chance to view this film it will be worthwhile.