ChiefRocko I remember seeing this a few times as a kid during those Saturday afternoon monster movie shows. I have to say that THIS one always stuck with me. Not that it's that good or well made - it's NOT - but the premise. Blazing death coming at you at 4K mph? How could you run? How could you shelter? Basically you couldn't. THAT is the brilliance of this film - it creeps you out.Part of what sets this gem apart is that unlike most "happy happy joy joy" American films of the time, this one shows people who don't stand a chance actually dying. Kids, women, people in shelters - there's no last minute helo rescue or a sudden rainstorm that saves families cowering in alleyways... they're doomed and they stay doomed.Well worth a watch - and compared to a LOT of films of that era, this one is actually interesting and different.Keep an eye out: when the nervous scientist's pregnant wife is taking shelter in her bldg's basement, there's an angry bald guy complaining... every person in the room with me watching had the same reaction: "hey, that's the bald guy from the basement in Night of the Living Dead!" One thing - you would NOT want to be standing near Robert Loggia when a lot of heat builds up. Not going to say his acting is wooden, but if you look REALLY hard, in the background is a bunch of Amish guys chasing him so they can build a barn out of him. The man's a deciduous forest worth of wood.Of course this film would've been PRIME for Mystery Science Theater 3000... but then, every film ever made would be better getting riffed by Mike and the Bots. Perhaps Rifftrax can take care of this glaring omission!

Enrique Sanchez I was expecting a truly hokey kind of 50s mess. I had discovered it on a list of great undiscovered 50s science fiction movies. What luck! I was pleasantly surprised with the effort. One can say that some of the direction of the acting could have been better. But I take movies from the 50s with a grain of salt. So many great ideas were relegated to the B-Studios. But I will remove from my summary opinion these minor and understandable chinks in the armor.LOST MISSILE is a near-great film if not right UP THERE with the best of the genre. We were informed at the outset that the armed forces were very cooperative with this effort, which would explain the wonderful "stock" footage of military operations and maneuvers. This did NOT bother me one bit, in fact, it added to the authentic feel of the story. I also thoroughly enjoyed the city, town footage of Ottawa and New York City in the 50s. I have come to expect these in movies from those days. Of course, stock footage has been forbidden in recent times because of its apparent lack of integrity to film-making. I see it as a wonderful way to see things as they really are or were.I did enjoy the way the alien missile reminded me of Kubrick's superb black comedy sci-fi, "DR. STRANGELOVE", which came six years after this. So it appears that it might have had some future influence in the genre.This film should be seen by all sci-fi buffs - it is fun and it contains some thrilling moments in the best 50s style they could conjure up in those days. There was a fascinating story, with one very fine actor: ROBERT LOGGIA. The ending was a mix of upbeat, downbeat and it did not wrap things up as neatly as Hollywood would have wanted in its heyday.What's not to like? Well, if you're expecting CGI and slick, you've come to the wrong place for that watermark. That sort of film filled with technical wizardry did not enter into the canon until a Kubrick's masterpiece "2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY"...Sit back, enjoy it, it's free on this website. You won't soon forget it.

sol1218 ***Spoilers*** With the report of an unknown missile strafing the earth at 4,200 MPH it becomes vital for the nations on earth to stop it before it destroys all life on the planet! But How!Top US nuclear scientist atomic physicists and aeronautical engineer Dr. David Loring, Robert Loggia, has to postpone his wedding plans with his fiancée and fellow scientist Joan Woods, Ellen Parker, at the prestigious Heavenbrook Atomic Labs outside New York City in order to stop the runaway missile from setting the world on fire! This has the disappointed future bride drop David like a hot potato not realizing, which as a nuclear scientist Joan should have, that the preventing of the earth from being destroyed is far greater then her wedding plans. In fact if these's no earth there sure as hell won't be a wedding!As the renegade missile sweeps across Canada jets planes, from both the US and Canada, are scrambled to either force or shoot it down. With it's fantastic speed of 4,200 MPH the missile generates heat of over one million degrees which knocks out and burns to a crisps any plane that comes within five miles of it! When Dr. Loring finally comes up with a fool-proof plan to knock the unknown missile out of the sky his fellow scientist at the Havenbrook Labs Dr. Joe Freed, Philip Pine, suddenly has seconds thought about downing the damn thing! Having found out, were never shown how, that the missile is being operated by aliens from space Dr. Freed wants to have it and its alien crew saved for future studies, in the knowledge that the aliens can provide the human race, in scientific advancements!As if things aren't going bad enough for Dr. Loring in his attempt to stop the lost missile, with a baby nuke that he devised, from obliterating the earth he together with Joan are carjacked by these 1950's greasers, or leather jacketed teenagers, on their way to the nearest USAF missile site. The unaware teens not knowing what their dealing with by being exposed to the plutonium, from he baby nuke, in Dr. Lorings' jeep soon end up being fatality radiated by it!***SPOILERS*** With time and the films' meager budget quickly running out Dr. Loring makes it to the missile launch site with the baby nuke and knowing, by being exposed to it, that his life is kaput willfully sacrifices himself by putting the radiation emitting baby nuke into the missile's, known as Jobe, nose-comb. It's then that Jobe does its job, by knocking out the runaway missile, in saving the earth until another day or another movie like "The Lost Missile" comes around.Skillfully spliced and integrated stock footage makes "The Lost Missile" hit its mark in keeping its audience glued to the screen without the special effects, of the 1950's, that the film so obviously lacks. There's also the film debut in the movie of African/American actor Hari Rhodes, who's extensive film credits include Samuels Fullers' "Shock Corridor" and the made for TV movie mega mini-series "Roots", as-according to the movie credits-the Black Man at the piano.

donsimo This may be THE sleeper sci-fi film of the 50s. Very imaginative story--plausible & with adult storytelling/writing. Loggia was great. I did find a VHS copy on ebay a few years ago and the story held up very well! And that alien missile looks like it was designed by Giger! ("Alien")