Monogram Pictures fizz off into outer space using gym locker room sets as spaceship interiors, military disposal store props and 2 color color and then reveal Mars is populated with man hungry showgirls wearing miniskirts sporting hairdoos by the Bettie Page salon de crater. What's not to like? this theme was recycled into at least three films I embrace equally: Cat Women Of The Moon, The Queen Of Outer Space (yippee!) and Mesa Of Lost Women. Showgirls, hairy spiders with goggly eyes, fellers with tin ray guns and possibly the same sweat stained space suits in each film. Very good. This one skipped the spider though and is a remake of Rocketship XM. I love the idea we can get into a flying pencil-case with a cracker up the exhaust pipe, settle into a bunk yanked from a submarine, crash-land in a quarry and meet scantily clad ex-LasVegas assistant cashiers who each look like Aunty Lorraine and her gal-pal Lois. You know you are really living when this is exciting.
Review of Flight to Mars
