Missile to the Moon is a 1958 independently made American black-and-white science fiction film drama, produced by Marc Frederic, directed by Richard E. Cunha, that stars Richard Travis, Cathy Downs, and K. T. Stevens. The film was distributed by Astor Pictures and is a remake of an earlier Astor Pictures-distributed film, Cat-Women of the Moon (1953). Missile to the Moon was released in late 1958 as a double feature with Cunha’s Frankenstein’s Daughter.

A spaceship blasts off from Earth with five aboard, but one of them is secretly a Moon man returning home. He dies by accident during the trip to Luna. What the remaining four find waiting for them when they arrive on the Moon is well beyond their expectations: huge rock creatures, giant lunar spiders, and a cave-dwelling civilization made up of beautiful women.

Plot
Two escaped convicts, Gary (Tommy Cook) and Lon (Gary Clarke), are discovered hiding aboard a rocket by scientist Dirk Green (Michael Whalen), who then forces them to pilot the spaceship to the Moon. Dirk, who is secretly a Moon man, wants to return home.

Dirk’s partner Steve Dayton (Richard Travis) and Steve’s fiancée June (Cathy Downs) are accidentally trapped aboard just before the rocketship blasts off from Earth.

Moon man Dirk is later accidentally killed in a meteor storm during the lunar trip. Once they land on the Moon, the spaceship’s reluctant crew encounter deception and intrigue when they discover an underground kingdom made up of beautiful women and their sinister female ruler, the Lido (K. T. Stevens).

While on the Moon, they encounter surface-dwelling, slow-moving, bipedal rock creatures that try to kill them. They must also contend with a cave-dwelling giant spider.

Cast
Richard Travis as Steve Dayton
Cathy Downs as June Saxton
K. T. Stevens as the Lido
Tommy Cook as Gary
Gary Clarke as Lon
Michael Whalen as Dirk Green
Nina Bara as Alpha
Laurie Mitchell as Lambda
Marjorie Hellen (Leslie Parrish) as Zeta
Henry Hunter as Colonel Wickers
Lee Roberts as Sheriff Cramer
Pat Mowry as Moon girl
Tania Velia as Moon girl
Sanita Pelkey as Moon girl
Lisa Simone as Moon girl
Mary Ford as Moon girl
Marianne Gaba as Moon girl
Sandra Wirth as Moon girl