Red Planet Mars
by Harry Horner
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Actor: Herbert Berghof, Morris Ankrum, Peter Graves, Vince Barnett, Willis B. BoucheyDirector: Harry Horner
Brand: Music Video Dist
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 87 minutes
Published: 2006
DVD Release Date: 2006-12-05
Audience Rating: Unrated
Model: 06-013
Studio: Cheezy Flicks Ent
Product features:
- Digitally Remastered
- B&W
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Movie Review: Cold War v. God In this Thought-Provoking Sci-Fi Flick!
Summary: 5 Stars
I found this movie on Netflix and it is an unusual science fiction story. It's unusual because it has very little to do with Mars or aliens. It had a lot to do with the fall of communism in the USSR, circa 1952, but I'm getting ahead of myself.
Harry Horner Vicki (Fox Film Noir) directs this film where in the near future, when they still wore fedora hats and Cold War was at its height, a scientist, Peter Graves [Mission Impossible TV, he looks so young] Biography - Peter Graves: Mission Accomplished and his wide-eyed, emotionally distraught wife, find a way of communicating with the planet Mars.
We first visit a telescope observation place as big as Palomar. They have the photos of Mars taken, which look like matte paintings rather than photographs, and through time-lapse can see the ice mountains at the caps melt into what are "obviously" canals. Holy cow, we gotta talk to these guys.
As Peter Graves' character prepares to turn on his "hydrogen valve radio" his wife Linda, played by Andrea King, Blackenstein (Chk Sen) gets all hysterical, explains how women are naturally frightened and that if he calls up Mars, quote: "You'll send us to oblivion!" So much for a supportive wife.
Lots of technical nonsense too, lots of talking, ho-hum *yawn*. But wait, we get a message!
Mars says they live for 300 years. Insurance premiums rocket.
Mars says they can grow acres of crops. Farm prices crash! Stock market crashes in two weeks. Coal mines close when news comes that Mars doesn't use coal or oil. Western economies all crash, millions unemployed. (Sounds familiar).
Meantime the Russians are laughing at the USA. And the USA is preparing to bomb Russia before the USA is too weak to fight. Does God intervene? Russian church revival? Lots going on here...
Wow, wadda story! We get some propaganda about the Voice of America radio broadcasts, with the Russian Red Guards searching peasants, machine-gunning priests and worshipers, and so on.
Centering around all this is an ex-Nazi scientist who actually invented Peter Graves' transmitter first. He plays both sides (the USA and USSR) for his own benefit.
Did those messages actually come from Mars, or is this a plot?? Hold onto your hats!
The ending got really sappy for me, and was hard to watch, although the ending was especially tough and heartbreaking. Damn.
Not your typical sci-fi, not a lot of cheese.
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