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Spaceflight IC-1: An Adventure in Space (1965)

As earth has become more uninhabitable a desperation journey to a new planet that is going to take years to complete goes awry when the ship’s captain becomes completely unreasonable. The crew is made up of husbands, wives, and children, picked out by earth super powers to start a new colony. As well, the ship also carries some other passengers who’ve been frozen, to be thawed out and revived when they get to their far off destination. The story goes in several interesting directions, with a mutiny led by the ship’s doctor, the captain who’s wife hasn’t gotten pregnant (which provokes classic insecurity symptoms), not a good development for a captain of a space ship carrying humanity’s last chance at avoiding extinction, the kids on board, the shifting allegiances between the crew, etc… However interesting the film is thematically, it suffers from a lack of resources, looks incredibly cheap, and has an unknown cast that utters a lot of bad lines.