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It's cheesy. sleazy, and - worthwhile!
A handsome astronaut inherits three million dollars and decides to build a rocket ship to take him and his professor/mentor to the moon. They land on the moon (really the Coral Castle in Florida - a home made of coral that is a local tourist attaction here in Florida) and find out that it looks just like Florida (Surprise!) -with topless women and a few local hunky lifeguards wearing antennae on their heads. One of the topless women looks like the astronaut's secretary on earth (who has a crush on our hunky hero but who isn't given the time of day by him. He's a scientist, after all, and women don't interest him). When the astronaut gets back to earth, he sees his secretary in a new (topless) light and gives her a big, manly kiss. End of movie. It's junk but fun, for a number of reasons: <
>1) Floridians will enjoy the on-location color filming of 1960's Florida. This was paradise before hurricanes, a tsunami of illegal immigration turned South Florida into South America (so much for the promises of Republican politicians to do something about this problem that has led to South Florida having no recognizable American identity - you will have trouble getting a job in Miami if you do not speak Spanish), and property taxes made it unlivable (everyone I know is leaving for Georgia and North Carolina). <
>2) Sci-Fi fans will get a kick out of the low IQ scientific mis-explanations for everything that these astronauts do. <
>3) This is totally politically incorrect bachelor fantasy stuff from the end of the atomic age. Women exist for men. Period. It's funny and offensive at the same time. <
>4) It's garbage but fun garbage. This was considered hot stuff in 1960 - the theatres in Florida packed them in with this silly nudie movie. <
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>If you appreciate cheesy time capsules, this will please you.

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Not as funny as it sounds
Judging from the title, you might expect this to be a hilarious movie, but unfortunately, it's just an extremely slow-paced nudie cutie flick with a sci-fi element added to it. The scientists travel to the moon and finds out it's inhabited by topless women. The story pretty much ends there but the movie drags on for another half hour or so. There is some amount of Doris Wishman charm in there somewhere, but not enough to save the movie from getting boring very quickly. <
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>I wanted to like "Nude on the Moon", but unfortunately, the title is the only good thing about the movie, and that's just not a good enough reason to waste money nor time on this film.

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"Nudes on the Moon," the most famous of the Doris Wishman "Nudie Cuties"
Here, for your consideration, is the premise of this movie (plot seems an overstatement). Dr. Huntley (William Mayer) and Professor Nichols (Lester Brown) are finally able to complete the work on their moon rocket because of an inheritance from Uncle Ted. So they travel to the moon and find a bunch of nudist "moon dolls" with pipe-cleaner antennae sticking out of their bouffant hairdos. The telepathic nearly naked women take the pair to be judged by the Moon Goddess (Marietta). Did I mention the women were nearly naked? <
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>"Nude on the Moon" comes to us courtesy of writer/director/producer Doris Wishman who also brought us "Diary of a Nudist," "The Prince and the Nature Girl," "Gentlemen Prefer Nature Girls," "Behind the Nudist Curtain" and "Bad Girls Go to Hell." Believe it or not, Wishman did not consider "Nude on the Moon" to be one of her better films because the cast was so ugly. This is what happens when you do not have total control over your pictures, I guess. Of course today "nudist" films such as this one are cute and quaint, but even when they were originally released they were not even remotely close to being soft-core. At least this one has the relative virtue of being in color. This 1961 film was also released as "Girls on the Moon," "Moondolls," "Nature Girls on the Moon" and "Nudes on the Moon" (important difference with that last one, I guess). <
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>Doris Wishman (1912-2002) stands out in the history of sexploitation films because she had the distinction of being a successful woman director in a genre dominated by men. Wishman started making films set at nudist camps and probably enjoyed her most success making "nudie cuties" of which "Nudes on the Moon" (made under her Anthony Brooks alias) would be the prime example. But then she moved on to the "Roughies" that defined the middle of her film career (e.g., "Bad Girls Go to Hell"), before she moved on to the "Ghoulies" (e.g., "A Night to Dismember") and soft core (e.g., "Double Agent 73"). <
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>By the way, the song opening and closing the movie is "Moon Doll," words and music by Judith J. Kushner, sung by an imitation Sinatra type who may well be Ralph Young. You have to love a song that opens, "I'm mooning over you, my little Moon Doll." The music that perfectly suits the tone of the movie and the topless people enjoying the all that sunshine on the moon is apparently by Daniel Hart and Doc Severinsen. You have to admit, the music fits the action perfectly, whoever wrote it for this film. <
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>The most disappointing thing about this DVD is that for one in the Something Weird series there is only the one movie and only one short subject "Cosmic Striptease," which suggests that if a female cosmonaut saw creatures on the moon (well, the antennae of creatures on the moon), that a reasonable response would be to do a strip tease. There is a gallery of exploitation art from Wishman's films, which we have seen on the superior Something Weird DVD with the roughie double-feature of "Bad Girls Go to Hell" and "Another Day Another Man." If you want the complete Doris Wishman experience you need to check out that one as well as this one. But this would be the place to start.