Except for some of the flight instruments, flight to mars reuses the interior flight deck sets, somewhat redressed, and other interior props from lippert pictures 1950 science fiction feature rocketship xm. E 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. At 72 minutes, flight to mars is about five minutes shorter than virginia hustons crying fit when she finds out arthur franz has fallen for topbilled marguerite chapman, who plays a martian with the best legs ever seen. Queen of mars, is a silent film directed by soviet filmmaker yakov protazanov made at the mezhrabpomrus film studio and released in 1924. A team of engineers along with a newspaper reporter embark on the incredibly risky journey, not even knowing if theyll be able to return to earth. It starred cameron mitchell, marguerite chapman, virginia huston, and morris ankrum. On one hand, it is a fantasy set on the planet mars with sets and costumes culled from rocketship x.
A leather jacketed reporter a pipe smoking scientist and a woman scientist wearing a evening dress just to name a few of the crew heading to mars in this wild plumbing space ship, equipped with office swivel chairs with safety belts. Flight to mars is a 1951 english film stars marguerite chapman, lesley selander, arthur strawn, walter mirisch, marlin skiles, harry neumann, richard v. Flight to mars is a 1951 american cinecolor science fiction film drama, produced by walter mirisch for monogram pictures, directed by lesley selander, that stars marguerite chapman, cameron mitchell, and arthur franz. The round red object he opens up is a complete minus 2 machine guns belly ball turret for a b17 bomber from world war ii. See the full list of flight to mars cast and crew including actors, directors, producers and more. An aboveaverage scifi bmovie in rather nice looking supercinecolor. Flower golden harvest company group 1 hammer film productions harry alan towers hemisphere pictures. The winner of the best motion picture category was metrogoldwynmayer s an american in paris. According to one of my film bibles, the psychotronic encyclopedia, it was the first space flight movie in color. Theatrical trailer for flight to mars 1951 youtube. Flight to mars 1951 four scientists and a newsman cameron mitchell crashland on mars and meet martians who act friendly. Sci fi, martians, space travel, rockets, aliens, futuristic city, nice graphic reading fifty years in the future. Flight to mars 1951 film complet en francais film complet.
Feb 25, 2012 theatrical trailer for the 1951 film flight to mars. Flight to mars 1951 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. In the trailer from the 1951 film flight to mars, visitors from earth to the red planet find a dying, but technologically advanced, civilization that has been listening in on radio communications from earth. Exploration of mars, unmanned or hypothesized manned flights. Flight to mars 1951 film complet en francais a 20170809t17. Reproduction image size varies based on original poster dimension ratios. Read the full synopsis of flight to mars, 1951, directed by lesley selander, with marguerite chapman, cameron mitchell, arthur franz, at turner classic movies. Flight to mars 1951 sifi film mod dvd disc only ebay. The martian underground helps the earthmen stop the insidious plan. The film s storyline involves the arrival on the red planet of an american scientific expedition team, who discover that mars is.
Scifi fans wouldnt get to see a ship with that much mileage on it again until the enterprise warped out of orbit in star trek fifteen years later. Flight to mars, a ufo tribute band, a side project of pearl jam lead guitarist mike mccready. One year later a film decided to take viewers one step further to the planet mars. The bravados classic western, full movie, gregory peck, english. This has a strong oldtimey feel to it, more 30s than 40s even. It was based on alexei tolstoys novel of the same name. Get info about the original print of flight to mars, 1951, directed by lesley selander, with marguerite chapman, cameron mitchell, arthur franz. Cheesy, shlocky and campy as it is, i suppose that 1951s flight to mars still has a claim to historical relevance. On one hand, it is a fantasy set on the planet mars with sets and costumes culled from rocketship xm and destination moon. After the reception that destination moon and rocketship xm got at the box office its no big leap to see why there would follow a film like flight to mars 1951 though 1951 and the rest of the 1950s decade wasnt more jam packed with other films that forayed into space voyage. Flight to mars, a 1951 cinecolor science fiction film.
Notes about flight to mars, 1951, directed by lesley selander, with marguerite chapman, cameron mitchell, arthur franz, available from turner classic movies. Jan 09, 20 the footagedirect archive includes historical and contemporary footage covering a wide range of subjects from corporate images to war footage, public domain movies and film trailers to industry. Poster for flight to mars 1951, usa wrong side of the art. Envisioning martian civilizations life on other worlds. Put aside all your thoughts of real space flight and take a look back at what the public, and hollywood thought in 1951. Flight to mars was crafted at a time when hollywood was making the transition from flash gordon to the real thing. Produced by academy award winning producer walter mirisch in otherworldly hues of twocolor cinecolor, flight to mars is fifties nostalgia at its imaginative best and is a must for scifi aficionados. This movie flight to mars came out in 1951 and was the first science fiction movie made in color at the time. According to one of my film bibles, the psychotronic encyclopedia, it was the first spaceflight movie in color. Oct 21, 2015 for this reason, the rocket in flight to mars is the most welltraveled interplanetary vehicle of the 1950s.
Marguerite chapman and arthur franz in flight to mars 1951. Flight to mars image enterainment corinth 1951 color 1. Aug 09, 2017 flight to mars 1951 film complet en francais a 20170809t17. The suits that the martians wear were leftovers from destination moon 1950. Flight to mars is a 1951 cinecolor science fiction film directed by lesley selander and written by arthur strawn. Most are from popular movies from the 70s and 80s, but there are. Flight to mars, a former amusement park ride in seattles fun forest. Flight to mars 1951 letterboxd social film discovery. In the silent film, a man travels to mars and leads a popular uprising against the authorities and attracts the love of queen aelita. Flight to mars classic 50s scifi karl petry 20121007 put aside all your thoughts of real space flight and take a look back at what the public, and hollywood thought in 1951. The features at last nights mars movie screening were two cheapies from the early 1950s, flight to mars from monogram and red planet mars from a company i read off the opening credits as hillary productions, inc. Le film flight to mars 1951 vostfr admin 20170629t23. High resolution movie poster image for flight to mars 1951. With marguerite chapman, cameron mitchell, arthur franz, virginia huston.
This episode we take a look at the 1951 scifi adventure, flight to mars join us every other week for another live session filled with all things geek enjoy. Its as if the filmmakers heard that scifi was the new hot thing, but hadnt seen any of the new stuff. It is minus its revolving and raising and lowering mechanisms. Close enough to the man in the moon to talk to him. Many of the same ideas are evident in the 1910 short film pas trip to mars and in flash gordons 1936 visit to the red planet. The image measures 1977 3000 pixels and is 736 kilobytes large.
Flight to mars 1951 not rated 1h 12min scifi 11 november 1951 usa 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. A newspaper reporter and a bunch of scientists fly a rocket to mars just to find out that martians look exactly like us. Starring marguerite chapman, cameron mitchell, arthur franz, virginia huston, john litel, morris ankrum, richard gaines cinematography harry neumann special effects irving block, jack cosgrove, jack rabin art direction dave milton film editor richard heermance original music marlin skiles. Visually this film evokes destination moon which came out a year earlier, but its a cheaper, less scientifically literate film, more akin to rocketship xm and with an equal lack of understanding of, well, anything about how interplanetary flight might work. Because this is a reproduction of an original poster it will feature the same characteristics as the original which can include registration issues, discoloration, etc.
The most fantastic expedition ever conceived by man. Cavalry scout is a 1951 american western film directed by lesley selander and starring rod cameron, audrey long and jim davis. Mars is running low on one of their natural resources corium, and plan to steal the earth astronauts rocket and conquer earth. Cheesy, shlocky and campy as it is, i suppose that 1951 s flight to mars still has a claim to historical relevance. Jim barker and cameron mitchell as twofisted reporter steve abbott. The almost complete psychotronic encyclopedia of film. Released in 1951, flight to mars portrays a secret rocket flight to the red planet. Nikolai tseretelli and valentina kuindzhi were cast in leading roles though the main focus of the story is the. Danny kaye hosted the 24th academy awards ceremony on march 20, 1952, held at the rko pantages theatre in hollywood. This classic 1951 science fiction drama was the first color motion picture about a journey to mars. Radar men from the moon 1952 the lost city 1935 undersea kingdom 1936. 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. Flight to mars cinemasterpieces movie poster lobby. Astronauts who return to earth after a human flight to mars recount encountering hostile creatures, with only two surviving the encounter.
Flight to mars is the second american film of the postwar era after the previous years rocketship xm to depict a manned space trip to the red planet. The films on location principal photography took place in death valley, california from may 11 through late may 1951. They fly to mars, to find martians who want to use their space ship to invade earth. What became more noticeable was that the alienscame here. Available also through the library of congress web site as digital files. Apr 07, 2014 flight to mars is no exception to this. The special effects are laughable but you have to keep in mind that this movie was made about 63 years ago. Brent gair has created a gorgeous replica of the rocket from flight to. Her name, alita, would seem to be a lift from the russian silent film aelita, about a queen of mars.
Flight to mars 1951 cc 6657 robot monster 1953 108789 the wizard of mars 1965 cc. Flight to mars 1951 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. This part is probably inspired by the russian film aelita 1924, which will doubtlessly appear on this blog sooner or later. After the initial half hours trip to mars, however, the film goes off in new directions and becomes much more interesting after the ships arrival to the red planet. For this reason, the rocket in flight to mars is the most welltraveled interplanetary vehicle of the 1950s. Jul 24, 20 flight to mars, 1951, film trailer thekinolibrary. Complete films, some in parts, some cross over several genres e. Gallery of 8 movie poster and cover images for flight to mars 1951.