Review: Spaceways
Howard Duff is an American engineer involved in a top-secret British space rocket test launch. The launch proves fatally unsuccessful and Duff ends up accused of double homicide as the story becomes a mystery. Alan Wheatley plays the military investigator on the case, whilst Eva Bartok plays a mathematician, and Cecile Chevereau is Duff's histrionic wife. My vote for the worst Hammer movie ever made, this 1953 sci-fi/mystery drama from director Terence Fisher ( “The Curse of Frankenstein” , “The Horror of Dracula” ) is based on a radio play and boy does that make a lot of sense. As a film it’s a complete and utter failure at capturing – let alone maintaining – your attention. The idea of killing two people, stuffing their bodies into a rocket, and launching the thing is a heck of an idea. This film isn’t really about that though, so even when this film stumbles upon an idea, it ends up doing nothing with it. This is just talk, talk, talk. That’s fine for radio whe...