For Flight To Mars, Monogram Pictures and its penny pinching head Sam Katzman must have really cracked open the cookie jar to spend money on this film. Color even, unheard of for Monogram film. It was probably their big budget item that year, comparatively speaking.
Four scientists, Arthur Franz, Virginia Huston, John Litel, and Richard Gaines and a reporter Cameron Mitchell are the crew of the first manned flight to Mars. And the Martians are humanoid as we are and have a nice little underground civilization that unfortunately runs on a material called Corium. As essential to them as the buffalo was to the Plains Indians.
But they're running out of Corium on Mars and the leader of the high council wants to use the earth astronauts rocket-ship to take armies back and conquer Earth. How they're going to do it with dwindling Corium and one rocket is something the script doesn't really go into.
In the meantime Arthur Franz finds a little love on Mars in the person of shapely Martian Marguerite Chapman. Still the Earth visitors are caught in a power play between Martian leader Morris Ankrum and former leader Robert Barrat.
Sad to say even with color Flight To Mars suffers from the same lack of production values that typify Monogram's products and the lack of a really coherent script. But the Martian girls are lovely to look at, it was like watching a Miss America pageant.
Four scientists, Arthur Franz, Virginia Huston, John Litel, and Richard Gaines and a reporter Cameron Mitchell are the crew of the first manned flight to Mars. And the Martians are humanoid as we are and have a nice little underground civilization that unfortunately runs on a material called Corium. As essential to them as the buffalo was to the Plains Indians.
But they're running out of Corium on Mars and the leader of the high council wants to use the earth astronauts rocket-ship to take armies back and conquer Earth. How they're going to do it with dwindling Corium and one rocket is something the script doesn't really go into.
In the meantime Arthur Franz finds a little love on Mars in the person of shapely Martian Marguerite Chapman. Still the Earth visitors are caught in a power play between Martian leader Morris Ankrum and former leader Robert Barrat.
Sad to say even with color Flight To Mars suffers from the same lack of production values that typify Monogram's products and the lack of a really coherent script. But the Martian girls are lovely to look at, it was like watching a Miss America pageant.