Mick Garris on ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS
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- Опубликовано: 21 ноя 2013
- Often misidentified as a George Pal production, this popular sci fi thriller recycles space ships from War of the Worlds and space suits from Destination Moon in the service of a clever updating of Daniel Defoe's original survivalist classic. Sadly, co-star Mona the Wooley Monkey seems to have retired after her screen debut.
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The rocks produced their own oxygen, that's how they kept burning. He then discovered how to extract the oxygen from the rocks.
A classic SF movie from the 60s that captured the imagination of many a child in that era (like me). I still love watching it, all these many years later.
I first saw this movie when I was 6 years old in 1966. I've seen it many times since then. I find it quite strange that some of the pictures we get back from actual Mars sort of resemble what we've seen in old movies like this. The nonsense stuff like fire on Mars is all fantasy however. A great movie.
NBC Saturday Night at the Movies ran this, and, because it wasn’t a “school night,” I stayed up and watched it. A happy memory.
Byron Haskin also directed some of the best OUTER LIMITS episodes.
RIP Adam West
One of my very favorite movies.
My mum took me to see this movie when I was 8 or 9 years old. I thought it was fantastic.
Love to hear someone else speak of the STARTLING and unusual UFO movement!
Yes the movement of the ships was striking and “alien”. I thought it was cool. Watched this with my dad who was a Physicist PHD, he scoffed at the movements of the ships, coming to abrupt halts as unscientific. A body in motion tends to stay in motion etc, but hey alien magno-anti-gravitational technology… Oh you mentioned slave with a ring around his neck, but it was two remote controlled bracelets that they Rob and Friday were trying to cut off with a cable saw.
I saw this on TV a long time ago, it's really good.
Impacted you and me too !! The film is from 1964, I think it's very good for the time.
Really cool extra information. I like this one when I was young too. It played a lot on TV. The Criterion DVD of this movie has a lot of nice information too!
I saw this in the theater, in 1964 when it came out. I was 6 years-old. A very exciting movie for that time. Definitely made an impression. The scariest part for me, was when Adam West returns in a nightmare sequence, and is pounding on the makeshift door that Mantee had fashioned for his Martian man-cave. Years later, I re-watched the film, and was further surprised to see that it was TV's Batman, who was the subject of Mantee's nightmare. I also remember thinking that the primitive revolver that Mantee uses was somehow out-of-place in a Sci-fi film. If I'm going to another planet, I'll take a cool ray gun for protection - thank you very much. Not some six shooter from the western TV show they're making in the adjacent studio. LOL.
I saw this in the theater when I was 12 and even then, when he opened the case and picked up the revolver, I remember thinking, why would you bring that extra dead weight on a space flight?
i LOVED THIS MOVIE AS A KID TOO.
I remember seein this at a drive-in in California when it came out.
Paul Mantee did make this movie work. It is a real classic. I have a model of the escape pod in my study. With all of the technical defects this movies is a real classic that will be loved for centuries to come.
Agreed. I still like it after all these decades. Especially with the crafts that blew holes in the side of mountains for the ore gathering expedition they were engaged in.
I found it interesting that Paul Mantee showed-up in a Batman episode as one of Catwoman's henchmen a couple of years later after the release of this movie. I have always wondered how Adam West reacted when Mantee was on the set!
adam told paul ; who's the star now , bitch !
Love this movie ..❤️❤️❤️❤️
Loved this movie as a kid.
I liked the movie too. Especially when the Earth ship evaded the planetoid in the beginning of the movie.
I STILL LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😊
Very Scientific! I especially like the plastic labels on his equipment. I have an old ‘DYMO’ label maker that uses plastic, stick-on tape to make those embossed labels. Still, this has been one of my favorite space movies since I was a kid. Even though we know a lot more about Mars now than we did back then, it is still an enjoyable, interplanetary survival movie.
My brother and I adored this film
Although my brother still thinks "The Green Slime" is a cinematic masterpiece.
Check out the score. Its now available on CD in Stereo. Check out web sites that deal in film scores and amazon.
Thanks for your analysis
Good movie
The theme (composed by Van Cleave) has been what's stuck with me most tenaciously from this movie for the past fifty years. I suppose it was calculated to lend a level of "dedication to great purposes" sensibility from which the adolescent American male of that period had not yet been divorced by the reality embodied in Lyndon Baines Johnson and his presidential administration.
Keep in mind that in 1964 little was still known about Mars, and the idea that the Red Planet could at least be almost habitable was still somewhat plausible. Also, the MGP-1 spacecraft was a very plausible spacecraft.
Then, in 1965 Mariner 4 flew past Mars and took the first ever closeup photos of the place. The probe flew over the dullest and most desolate moonlike landscape on the planet. That brought about the Great Disillusionment about Mars. Still, it's a compelling story of survival against long odds on a hostile planet. It wasn't really improved upon until THE MARTIAN was made into a movie.
A great movie to which the film the Martian owes alot.
+Lagg Buster I agree. Frankly I'm a bit surprised that Robinson Crusoe on Mars didn't get any more recognition when The Martian came out.
And don't forget that Fred Steiner also worked on Star Trek TOS.
Glad someone else likes this movie - usually I get "Whuut?" when I talk about it. Mind you though, I'm usually pissed when I do, so I'm not surprised. Great!
Great thanks!
your assesment of the movie lacked some curacy. Friday and his co-laborers had bands around their wrists, not their necks. Mantee runs out of oxygen while the rocks continue to burn, because the rocks are flammable and did not need as much oxygen as Paul Mantee's character. As for the slave masters...yes, we primarily see their ships, but we do see them in space suits and shooting their laser weapons. One could make out the human looking face of one of the many unnamed 'alien' extras in the scene.
Mick's recollection is wrong. The Victor Lundin character slave was tracked by metal band on is wrist not around his neck. Oops. The science of the movie? There was actually very little known about Mars at the time. Anyones guess was good for what Mars was really like.
+nofrackingzone Another thing is the Aliens are scene briefly when Draper films them and watches them on his video equipment in the cave with Friday.
The Martian Ships from War of the Worlds were reused in this Movie.
Paul Mantee was fab in this
Huge fan of Haskin's War of the Worlds (my favourite adaptation) but this one looks like a serious dud... including the same croissant type ships from WOTW but looking a lot less menacing without the tentacles.
"Scientifically authentic" has morphed into "based on a true story" where the movie bears no resemblance to the actually event.
Actual true.
The first half of the movie is really good, then it kind of falls down for me when the aliens are introduced, kind of cliche.
This movie was scientifically accurate for 1964, The Mariner probe in 1965, showed us the real Mars.
+Daniel Ring I'm not sure our host here has much perspective as to what percentage of this film actually contained very realistic and/or probable technical and scientific material. He mentions the fires burning, but seems to have forgotten that the rocks the astronaut finds on Mars contain and release oxygen, which allows the fire to burn, and also allows the guy to re-build his own oxygen supply through extraction. (Some rocks on Mars were discovered to actually release a certain small degree of oxygen held captive.) The ship and space modules were very accurate to what was being done for actual space launches. This film also predicted mini-cams, which were a long way off then. Yes, not everything is accurate (fireballs shuttling about on the surface?----not sure what they were thinkiing there, but to keep hammering away that the science was "bullshit" is pretty disingenuous on Mick's part. I have to suspect he either doesn't know much about astronomy and rocketry, or doesn't recall the film very well.
+Daniel Ring He's also wrong that the aliens are never seen in the film. They are clearly shown to be human-like beings in (rather unimaginative/old fashioned) space suits armed with ray-gun like weapons. (Maybe Mick needs to watch this film again. ? )..... (Oh, and he forgot to mention that one of the art directors was the genius behind the early George Pal films WAR OF THE WORLDS and WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE, Al Nozaki....And, NO, it wasn't Al's idea to re-use the saucer ships from the former film, it was the director's choice, something no one on the film understood. And, since I met and interviewed quite a number of people who made these films, I can state that with some accuracy.)
Good info.
Agreed.
I have never yest seen this movie from start to finish...I always end up changing the channel
Uh I thought that movie was about only one man named Robinson Crusoe.😅😬
The movie was scientifically accurate for the time. This isn't the trailer from hell: It is the critic from hell.
Wonderful film. Not sure calling it 'Robinson Crusoe on Mars' did it any favours.
Interesting how he's walking around without a suit or a helmet ...
Just watch the film before making uninformed comments.
For a real Mars sci Fi , check out " Rocket ship XM " 1950. Street clothes and oxygen masks worn on Mars .
I laughed they used the machines from war of the worlds
The "machines" in "Robinson Crusoe on Mars" are not those used in "War of the Worlds". They may be similar in appearance though those in "War of the Worlds" showed a much more sinister Manta Ray aspect, as well as the heat ray mounted on a flexible mast above the machine. That gave the Martians a complete 360 degree of attack which those in "Robinson Crusoe..." did not as the ray unit was mounted on the underside of the craft and were static. Also the machines in "War of the Worlds" did not just defy physics by stopping instantaneously.
stephen gorin The Martian spacecraft are left-overs from The War of the Worlds. Director Byron Haskin was involved in both projects, although George Pal is often given sole credit for the earlier classic.
Props in Hollywood are often stored and repurposed in other movies after getting a new skin.
@@theaussieinbelfast I really did not know that. However the machines do look quite different. This suggests that even if the basic models were the same, considerable rework was done on the "Robinson Crusoe..." version. And I don't think they are nearly as ominous as those in "War of the Worlds"
stephen gorin yea they are the same machines but if u look closely they are the same model just fixed up abit for this movie. I always laughed at it thinking this was the same universe lol
@@stephengorin2685 , good point, Stephen.
Great cult following.