MISSILE TO THE MOON

Two escaped convicts, Gary and Lon, are discovered hiding aboard a rocket by scientist Dirk Green, who then forces them to pilot the spaceship to the Moon. Dirk, who is secretly a Moon man, wants to return home. Dirk’s friend, Steve Dayton, and Steve’s fiancée, June Saxton, are aware that the vessel is getting ready to launch, so they go to the spacecraft to investigate. Unwittingly, they lock themselves in and become passengers when the ship takes off. During the flight, they encounter a meteor shower that results in Dirk receives a fatal head wound. Before he dies, Dirk asks Steve to remain on course, hands him a medallion, and tells him that upon landing he should seek forgiveness from “the Lido."

After landing on the Moon, everyone puts on space suits with oxygen regulators. Soon, they are attacked by rock monsters, unaffected by bullets shot at them. Hiding in a cave, they successfully light a torch and come to realize that there is oxygen on the Moon, allowing them to remove their space suits and helmets. While in the cave, they succumb to a mysterious gas. Waking up later, they find themselves in an underground community of beautiful women. Steve is brought to the queen, "Lido", who believes he is Dirk. She thanks Dirk for his return as the Moon is running out of oxygen and soon they will all die.

Gary introduces himself to one of the Moon girls and soon discovers that the Moon has a diamond mine. Back in the palace rooms, Steve tells June that Dirk left the tribe for Earth years ago to return with a ship to help them. Fearing that Lido may discover his true identity, Steve tells June that a marriage with Alpha, one of the blonde Moon girls, has been arranged and he must marry her. Alpha then enters the room and tells Steve it is time for the wedding and kisses him. Jealous, June attacks her and the two women engage in a hair-pulling catfight. Alpha then realizes the deception and informs Lido, but still insists on marrying Steve. In a power struggle, Alpha kills Lido and becomes the new queen. June and the other men are forced into a cave where they are stalked by a giant spider. Another Moon girl, Zema, has fallen in love with Lon decides to help the earthlings, freeing Lon, June and Gary from the cave and returning the confiscated space suits. In a power struggle with Alpha, who wants June, Lon, and Gary killed, Zema detonates a bomb, allowing the oxygen to escape but not before Steve, June, Gary and Lon have donned their space suits.

As they make their escape, Gary runs back to the cave to retrieve diamonds but is killed in a struggle with one of the rock monsters before reaching the safety of the ship.

As the ship prepares to lift off for Earth, June asks Steve if she is more attractive than Alpha. Steve, tells June the only thing prettier than her is Earth.

The Earthlings escape the Moon after a power struggle among the Moon women leads to chaos. Gary is killed by a rock monster while trying to retrieve diamonds, but Steve, June, and Lon return to Earth.

The ending ties up the film’s blend of pulp adventure and sci-fi melodrama, with the lunar society’s power struggle proving as perilous as any monster. The survivors' escape underscores the film's theme that the dangers of unchecked ambition—whether on Earth or the Moon—can be fatal, while a return to the familiar is ultimately preferred.