Boom in the Moon

Boom in the Moon Spanish El Moderno Barba Azul or The ModernDay Bluebeard is a 1946 Mexican science fiction comedy film directed by Jaime Salvador and starring Buster Keaton. The film is notable both as Keatons only Mexican production and as the last time Keaton had star billing in a feature film.

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, Keatons 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 19211997. The Gdansk, Polandborn Salkind, the son of film producer Michael Salkind, fled Nazicontrolled Europe with his family prior to World War II, settling in Mexico City. Salkind would later produce the notable films Austerlitz 1960, the Orson Wellesdirected version of The Trial 1962 and the epic Superman 1978 and its sequels. ........

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