Boom in the Moon
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| Directed by | Jaime Salvador |
| Produced by | Alexander Salkind |
| Written by | Jaime Salvador/Victor Trivas |
| Starring | Buster Keaton Angel Garasa Virginia Seret Luis G. Barreiro |
| Music by | Leo Cardona/Georges Tzipine |
| Cinematography | Agustin Jimenez |
| Edited by | Rafael Saballos |
| Distributed by | Alsa Film |
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Release date
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Mexico August 2, 1946 United States October 1983 |
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Running time
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90 minutes |
| Country | Mexico |
| Language | Spanish |
Boom in the Moon (Spanish: ''El Moderno Barba Azul'' or "The Modern-Day Bluebeard") is a 1946 Mexican science fiction comedy film directed by Jaime Salvador and starring Buster Keaton. The film is notable both as Keaton's only Mexican production and as the last time Keaton had star billing in a feature film.
Keaton plays an American soldier during World War II who escapes from an airplane crash over the Pacific Ocean. He is adrift for a long period and his face becomes covered in a scraggly beard. He arrives on a beach, believing he has landed in Japan, but he is actually in Mexico. He wanders into a fishing village and is promptly arrested under the mistaken belief that he is a wanted serial killer who marries and murders women (also known as a "bluebeard"). Keaton and another prisoner (Angel Garasa) are put in the custody of an aeronautics scientist who is planning to launch a manned rocket into outer space. The two prisoners, along with the scientist's assistant (Virginia Seret) are blasted into space, but their craft lands in an isolated portion of Mexico instead. They mistake a beekeeper wearing protective headgear as an alien, while the beekeeper believes the trio (who are wearing wizard robes) are aliens. The prisoners and the scientist's assistant are apprehended by the local police, and the matter is quickly settled. Keaton and his cellmate receive pardons and are free to go on their way.
Boom in the Moon marked the first time since the 1935 production The Invader (a.k.a. An Old Spanish Custom) that Buster Keaton was given a starring role in a feature film. During the first part of the 1940s, Keaton's screen work was limited to small supporting parts in feature films and headlining a series of short films made by Columbia Pictures.
Boom in the Moon marked the first solo producer credit enjoyed by Alexander Salkind (1921–1997). The Gdansk, Poland-born Salkind, the son of film producer Michael Salkind, fled Nazi-controlled Europe with his family prior to World War II, settling in Mexico City. Salkind would later produce the notable films Austerlitz (1960), the Orson Welles-directed version of The Trial (1962) and the epic Superman (1978) and its sequels.
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