The Americans and 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.
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Way...Way Out (1966). USA. Language: English. Genre: Comedy / Sci-Fi. Produced by: Jerry Lewis Productions. Released by: 20th Century Fox. Runtime 106 min. Directed by Gordon Douglas. Cast (in alphabetical order): James Brolin…Ted, Alexander D'Arcy…Deuce, Anita Ekberg…Anna Soblova, Milton Frome…US Delegate, Linda Harrison…Linda, Brian Keith .... General Hallenby. Jerry Lewis .... Pete Lattemore. Robert Morley…Harold Quonset, Howard Morris…Schmidlap, Sig Ruman…Russian Delegate, Dick Shawn .... Igor Baklenikov. Connie Stevens…Eileen Forbes, Dennis Weaver .... Hoffman. Written by William Bowers, Laszlo Vadnay. Cinematography by William H. Clothier. Music by Lalo Schifrin. Song: "Way…Way Out" by Lalo Schifrin and Hal Winn, sung by Gary Lewis and the Playboys.