12 to the Moon is a 1960 independently made American black-and-white science fiction film, produced and written by Fred Gebhardt, directed by David Bradley and starring Ken Clark, Michi Kobi, Tom Conway and Anna-Lisa.

The crew of Lunar Eagle 1 comprises 12 people from around the world, 10 men and two women, all scientists with different specialties, accompanied by a small menagerie, including two cats.

Israeli David Ruskin warns Feodor that the USSR would be unwise to attempt to dominate Israel, as it has done to his native Poland.

Sigrid Bomark and Selim Hamid find an air-filled cave and, after shedding their space helmets, they kiss passionately.

The message also states that the emotionless Moon-beings live underground and fear that the Earthlings will "contaminate our perfect form of harmony."

However, when David learns that Erich has disowned his family and devoted his life to trying to make amends for his father's crimes, they become friends.

Erich produces a plan to drop "atomic bomblets" into the volcano Popocatepetl to trigger a huge eruption to thaw out North America.

He incorrectly assumes that Feodor would also want to keep America frozen in order to advance international communism's quest for world domination.

Another message from the Moon says that the Moon-beings now realize that Earthlings are honorable and peaceful, and that the North Americans were put into suspended animation before the big freeze, so no one has been harmed.

[11] "Kobe", writing in the June 22, 1960 issue of Variety, praised Alton's camerawork but called 12 to the Moon a "[l]ower-half science-fantasy item in which a dozen good eggs from earth tangle with some righteous, but misdirected, lunatics.

Timely, but crude and cliché-ridden"[12] An anonymous reviewer in BoxOffice referred to the film as "[a] modest science fiction programmer [which] will satisfy the youngsters and the action fans who delight in stories of rocketships to the moon."

For example, Westphal writes that the space helmets have no visors, but each is instead equipped with an "invisible electromagnetic ray screen" that protects the astronauts' faces.

[15] Critic Bryan Senn notes that "[t]he effects are minimal and substandard, consisting mainly of the same shot of a rocket traveling through space used over and over again (and it's not even a convincing shot - the stars shine right through the transparent-looking ship)", although he calls the Moon set "eerie and effectively alien, with its cracks, weird shadows, and smoke seeping from mysterious holes.

The film's first thirty minutes promise an internationalized update of Destination Moon [1950], while later events rival a Flash Gordon serial.

[18] The episode's interstitial host segments feature Nuveena, the Woman of the Future, played by Bridget Jones, taken from Design for Dreaming.

"[21] 12 to the Moon was included as part of the Mystery Science Theater 3000, Volume XXXV DVD collection, released by Shout!