Way... Way Out
1966 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
The Americans and the Russians each have a two-person base on the moon. The Americans have had to keep replacing their astronaut teams because they quickly go crazy; they have been using only male astronauts on the unspoken assumption that this would avoid any possibility of impropriety. The Russians, as godless Communists, are under no such constraints, and their male-female team has remained well-adjusted. At the start of the film, a male and female American astronaut team is sent up to replace the sex-starved all-male team. The government insists on them being married first to preserve morality. Most of the story revolves around the eventual consummation of this marriage of convenience, and around their relationship with their Russian neighbors, who keep casually dropping by.
Direction Gordon Douglas
Cast Jerry Lewis · Connie Stevens · Robert Morley · Dennis Weaver · Howard Morris · Brian Keith · Dick Shawn · Anita Ekberg · William O'Connell · Bobo Lewis · Sig Ruman
Soundtrack Lalo Schifrin
Screenplay William Bowers · László Vadnay
Cinematography William H. Clothier
Original title Way... Way Out
4.7
95 votes (FilmAffinity)
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