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Director:
Lesley Selander
Writer:
Arthur Strawn (writer)
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Release Date:
11 November 1951 (USA) more
Genre:
Sci-Fi more
Tagline:
Fifty Years Into The Future! more
Plot:
Five astronauts successfully fly to Mars where they encounter seemingly friendly and advanced inhabitants who harbor covert plans to use their ship to invade Earth. full summary | add synopsis
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A "lost" gem from the 1950s. Don't pass on this one! more (22 total)

Cast

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Marguerite Chapman ... Alita
Cameron Mitchell ... Steve Abbott
Arthur Franz ... Dr. Jim Barker
Virginia Huston ... Carol Stafford
John Litel ... Dr. Lane
Morris Ankrum ... Ikron
Richard Gaines ... Prof. Jackson
Lucille Barkley ... Terris
Robert Barrat ... Tillamar (as Robert H. Barratt)
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Wilbur Back ... Councilman
William Bailey ... Councilman
Trevor Bardette ... Alzar
Stanley Blystone ... Councilman
David Bond ... Ramay
Raymond Bond ... Astronomer #2
Tristram Coffin ... Commentator
Russ Conway ... Astronomer #1
Edward Earle ... Justin
William Forrest ... Gen. Archer
Everett Glass ... Montar
Perc Launders ... Workman
Anthony Marsh ... Attendant
Bill Neff ... Sergeant
Frank O'Connor ... Councilman
Bob Peoples ... Soldier
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Runtime:
72 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Supercinecolor)
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
USA:Approved | Finland:S
Company:
Monogram Pictures more

Fun Stuff

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In the scene where the reporter and one of the professors go back to check for damage. The round red object he opens up is a complete (minus 2 machine guns) belly ball turret for a B-17 bomber from World War II. It is minus it's revolving and raising and lowering mechanisms. more
Quotes:
Steve Abbott: [playing solitaire] How many years you've been in love with him?
Carol Stafford: [tearfully] Three.
Steve Abbott: How many tears do you think it'll take to wash out three years.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us (2005) (TV) more

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A "lost" gem from the 1950s. Don't pass on this one!, 9 November 2001
Author: Bruce Cook (brucemcook@windstream.net) from Fayetteville, GA

Four men and a lady blast off for the red planet Mars in this lean-budgeted but likable little yarn. The explorers find a thriving civilization of completely humanoid Matians. The leaders of the Martian government act friendly, but they secretly plot to kill the Earthlings and steal the secret of their rocket propulsion system.

Scientist Arthur Franz (`Invaders from Mars') is the leader of the expedition, Cameron Mitchell is the wisecracking newspaper man, and Virginia Houston is Franz's jilted fiancé'. Mitchell fall in love with Miss Houston, and Franz falls in love with a gorgeous Martian lady in a minidress, played by Marguerite Chapman, the heroine of `Spy Smasher' -- one of the Republic serials which Lucas and Speilberg patterned `Raiders of the Lost Ark' after.

Director Lesley Selander shot the picture in just 11 days, and admirable accomplishment in view of the results. After all, it was made in 1951 (the same year as `The Thing' and `The Day the Earth Stood Still') in glorious Cinecolor, and the set designs are remarkably similar to those used in `This Island Earth'. I read somewhere (`Starlog' magazine, I think') that the sets and special effects were by the same people.

The costumes are excellent, especially those worn by the attractive female stars (extremely short, `futuristic' dresses). Also noteworthy is the fact that we get to see Morris Ankrum in his second sci-fi role (the first was `Rocketship X-M'). He portrays a general, as he did in so many 1950s sci-fi films -- but this time he's a MARTIAN general who urges his people to invade the Earth!

A lovely irony for 1950s sci-fi fans.

The highly appealing rocket in `Flight to Mars' was reused in at least three other 1950s movies -- `Queen of Outer Space', `World Without End', and `It ! The Terror from Outer Space'. And that makes this rocket the most well-traveled interplanetary vehicle in film history, second only to the Millennium Falcon!

If you've got a soft spot for 1950s films, this one will warm the your heart if you can find it. Lemme' know if you do.

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