thinker1691 Review of Flight to Mars

Flight to Mars (1951)

" We'll steal their ship, go to the Earth and destroy them all "

[6/10 · 24 March 2014]

From a screenplay written by Arthur Strawn and directed by Lesley Selander comes this film offering entitled " Flight to Mars. " It was made in the 1950s' and for many a teenage boy proved to be very interesting. A group of Spacemen from Earth decide to travel to the red planet Mars to explore the possibility of life there. Their ship is imaginative for the time and yet none of us noticed they traveled to the forth planet using only common clothes. We were too busy ogling the shapely long legged, high heeled Martian Beauties. Boarding their spaceship we also never noticed the crew members wore army jackets, fatigues and common gas masks, their rocket ship was equipped with Army bunk beds and the only female crew-member wore her flowing High school hoop skirt. The script calls for good dialog and the cast members do well to maintain a great story. In point of fact, this is a good movie and with actors like Morris Ankrum it does a good job. Although greeted peacefully, they soon discover, they are doomed. All in all, I would recommend this movie to young minds and move this film into the annals of the Classics. ****