Release Date
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Original Release
January 10, 1975
1h 40m
Stowaway to the Moon (1975)
⭐ 6.0100 min
Overview
E.J. Mackernutt, Jr., an 11-year-old boy who has always been fascinated by space and astronauts, sneaks into Cape Kennedy and becomes a stowaway on a spaceship scheduled for a lunar landing. After he is discovered, NASA at first cancels the landing, but E.J. and the astronauts convince them to go forward with it. Problems arise when one of the astronauts is incapacitated by illness and the other two are stranded on the moon's surface, but E.J. is able to command the space capsule and save the day.
Director
Andrew V. McLaglen
Department: Directing
⭐Popularity: 0.7
Cast
Lloyd Bridges
Charlie Englehardt
⭐1.9
Jeremy Slate
Astronaut Capt. Rick Lawrence
⭐0.8
Jim McMullan
Astronaut Ben Pelham
⭐0.4
Morgan Paull
Astronaut Dave Anderson
⭐0.4
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Michael Link
Eli 'E.J.' Mackernutt, Jr.
⭐0.1
John Carradine
Jacob Avril
⭐1.3
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Jack Callahan
Dr. Jack Smathers
⭐0.2
Charles Conrad
Himself
⭐0.1
Walter Brooke
Whitehead
⭐0.7
Keene Curtis
Tom Estes
⭐0.7
Genres
FamilyScience Fiction
Production Companies
A MOR-Film FareAlan Neuman Productions
20th Century Fox Television
