Stowaway to the Moon
Released: January 10, 1975Runtime: 100 min
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.
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Lloyd Bridges
as Charlie Englehardt
Jeremy Slate
as Astronaut Capt. Rick Lawrence
Jim Mcmullan
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Morgan Paull
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Michael Link
as Eli 'E.J.' Mackernutt Jr.
John Carradine
as Jacob Avril
James T Callahan
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Walter Brooke
as Whitehead
Keene Curtis
as Tom Estes
Edward Faulkner
as Eli Mackernutt Sr.
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