From the mailbox:
“Do you know the name of a film I saw on tv in the 70s, that featured a couple of hostile aliens found on the moon, one of which looked like a drag-strip racing timing light and the other a floating leathery sphere that ate astronauts?”
None of that rings a bell for me, but I have a feeling that if you’ve seen it you’d probably remember it based on this description.
It’s probably “Mission Mars” (1968) which starred Darren McGavin and Nick Adams. I liked it, but I haven’t thought about it in years.
Yeah! Sounds like it! I remember a frozen astronaut in it. Thanks.
Mission Mars did indeed have an orb like creature in it.
I need to see it again. Probably been 25 years since I last saw it…
See if this works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dbxFGR991k
Could it have been Dark Star, Carpenter’s first film from 1974?