So much better than most SF movies of the time. No Martian monsters here, but an actual civilization on Mars. With a reasonable explanation of how they speak English. And a civilization ending problem.
I love this movie especially how realistic it is. Like how the Martians speak perfect North American English. Great entertaining science fiction though! especially the guy making the moves on the space chick!
This is hysterical. How cavalier they treated getting ready to go on a high-risk inter-planetary trip. Get picked up at the apartment, escorted directly to the door of the rocket and walk on the shipj in full civilian clothes. And of course....make sure the woman of the story wears high heels. 50s craziness.
I liked it.Born 45, this movie was pretty good.We didn't know at the time what we would learn later own.But still the human concerns have not changed,even to this day.
I love the subtle style of using canteen stools as seats in the very first flight in space. Those seats would snap your neck under acceleration. No belts, just reach out and grab the structures, and hope it isn't electrical.
I would like to see a Gen x or gen z write a movie about 50 or 60 from now. And then have people watch it I. 60 years. Like you I was born in 1954, so I'm fascinated by their guess for thefuture
That rocket crashed into Mars at thousands of km/hr and wasn't scratched! And no one hurt! Must be made of impossiblium, we could use that tech on our roads.
NASA should have used that for that probe sent up a few years ago that crashed into the lunar south pole because the idiots at NASA were counting down the ft for landing and the ship computer was reading meters and it smashed into the surface like a trump train at election time.
I love that they are able to keep their shaky extension ladder hanging in the cabin for exiting the ship or brightening up the place with some fresh paint! The gyroscope keeps the cabin vertical at all times too! Love it.
Mission to Mars What a hoot this movie is! I really like how they crashed on Mars at almost ballistic speed, and they all walked away like they just had a fender bender in traffic.
The crew ratio was all wrong. How could they expect 1 woman to wash all those clothes, make all those sammiches, Keep the rocket ship clean, and look after the men's "other" needs? Should been 4, maybe 5 women and 1 guy.
I can relate this movie because this is how we played space games as kids. Wearing no special clothes. Being able to breath the air, no matter where we were. Aliens speaking English. A rocket ship that travels at the speed of light. Love it.
Some of the cast is Marguerite Chapman, Cameron Mitchell, Virginia Huston, Arthur Franz John Litel, Richard Gaines and Morris Ankrum (was also in The Giant Claw, Earth vs the Flying Saucers)
The actor who played the evil leader was also a judge off and on for years on Perry Mason. I think he may have been the general on Earth vs the Flying Saucers.
Полет мысли был тогда неудержим! На Марсе можно было ходить в обвановенном костюме с простыми противогазами, особенно корреспонденту. А местные прям все в скафандрах. Нет никакой невесомости, силы тяжести. Здорово! Всё ещё впереди! ❤❤❤❤ А вот оставить корабль без присмотра - это не хорошо🤷♀️
Before we get too snarky, this movie is effectively a remake of “Aelita”, one of the first full length sci-fi films made, in this case, in the Soviet Union in 1924. Aleksei Tolstoy, the original author of Aelita, gets a screenwriter credit although he died in 1945. The original Aelita revolved around class conflict and other Marxist themes, which, not surprisingly, did not figure into this Cold War era Hollywood production.
Yup. I agree. Must be Gen Z,s . Ha I'm sure they can't comprehend dial phone and no internet. LOL. I think the imagination of these 50's writers were way ahead of their time for what was actually known
Gave this a like, just in appreciation for this being uploaded. Past works of art are a part of the historical record, even when they're complete crap.
9 days to Mars orbit. Damaged cables and batteries, but no decompression. Lets land... Nose first into a mountain. Opps. How very little they knew or cared about facts. But, still a good movie, like most of these 50s movies are.
29:54 That was the most unrealistic "crash" in sci-fi movie history. The ship should have exploded into a million shards. But I did kind of like this flick.
The women of Mars are so forward thinking. Those skirts have just enough coverage for modesty, and more leg for maneuverability. The future looks great.
I have to say the set design is colorful, warm and artistic. This movie maybe lacking in science but a whole lot of whimsy to make it amusing. In many ways it holds true to pulp sci fi books of the forties, a little bit fantastic, lose on the science, good guy's, bad guys, and pretty women to match.
Space Dart redefines the term “stick the landing.” Also, Martian mini-skirts redefine the term “stick the landing.” It’s vague with variable meaning.. Spock out.
No, nobody laughed. This was as serious and scientific sci-fi as it gets back then. Yes, I am that old. High heels don't work on the moon but are essential for Mars.
Jim Barker played by Arthur Franz. Long career in both TV and film. He was the "invisible man" in the Abbott and Costello movie and did a lot of sci-fi movies.
FLIGHT TO MARS (Monogram, 1951) In Cinecolor. Starring Cameron Mitchell, Arthur Franz, Marguerite Chapman, John Litel, Morris Ankrum. Produced by Walter Mirisch. Directed by Leslie Selander. Music by Marlin Skiles. A fun colorful popcorn movie. Now available on DVD and Blu-Ray in restored Cinecolor! A real classic, even though it's a B-movie, it's a good one! Welcome to the world of 1951. Similar to George Pal's classic Technicolor space adventure DESTINATION MOON (1950) but Pal's film is an A picture which is scientifically accurate and inspired the American Space Program in the 1950s leading to the creation of NASA in 1958.
This film is not colorized, it is in cinicolor, and Virginia Huston is an overlooked beauty. She has a good part in the film noir classic, Out of the Past.
@@deepcosmiclove flight to Mars is NOT Colorized, it is shot in cinicolor.. Monogram spent the money for this feature jumping on the space travel popularity after the 1950s color production of Destination Moon .
This is a excellent copy of a couple on the net. Mars is shown to be cold and barren which isnt too far off reality we know today and the "Martians" have their own problems and its all good fun and they even discuss about other "universes" perhaps just as we do today so its pretty good movie and open minded to what/how is out there.
The orange piece of equipment that had the landing gear system looks an awful lot like a Sperry ball turret as used on B17 and B24 bombers.... correct me if I am wrong....
At closest approach (they said Mars was close), that would be about 5 minutes at the speed of light. I guestimate that t 7 days would be about how long it would take if your ship could accelerate halfway, and decelerate the rest of the way at about 1G. That would solve the gravity problem. At least they lampshaded the gravity problem by saying that the lady floated to the top before they got the artificial grav online. A week is about the round trip Apollo Moon trip time for the shortest stay (Apollo 11)
It's amazing how this incredibly advanced technology can allow people to be able to travel in space in such casual and comfortable intensely high heels and beautiful long legs as this masterpiece displays! Magnificent!
Aside from the regular, obvious nonsense, It's hard to imagine that even in 1951 they thought going to space would be such a cavalier and casual thing to do! Accounting for spacecraft cockpit orientation in a place with no up or down?!? The dude looked like he was closing a camper door before they took off for their little adventure to Mars which might as easily have been to the woods!
The actual title is "Flight To Mars". And it was originally released in color (Cinecolor) in 1951 by Monogram Pictures. Being a "poverty row studio", it is surprising that Monogram spent the extra money for color film. Fun movie, but lets face it...a trip to Mars and our intrepid group are wearing street clothes...even Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon wore uniforms in those early serials. Speaking of uniforms, I loved the sexy outfits (mini-skirts) that the Martian women wore.
Thanks for the real title. Wiki didn't recognize the first title, but has an article on the real name. It's odd hearing Cameron Mitchell speaking normally without his hokey western cowboy accent. 😅
They went into space, riding rolling office chairs and held in by cheap airline lap belts. Just one of the many, many reasons I'm loving this movie. 💥
and they land in snow too. Nothing red about it. Someone tell them about Boyle’s Law! Their blood should be boiling right now.♨
Don't forget using Mattresses as shock absorbers - take that, NASA & SpaceX!
I love that they use a slide rule to make their calculations.
I also love the mattresses against the wall to brace for the crash landing.
Oh! Boy!
Hot pants and Mini Skirts . . .
😂😂😂
Slide rules got us to the moon...at least partially.
...and s couple good old Jacobs ladder electrical arcs to boot - classic!
Well guests are welcome after all.😅
High heels and mini-skirts are vital for space exploration!
They're key to the plot ya know! 😂😂
She wasn't exploring.
@@leaaronsanchez Oh yes she was!
They certainly tend to make ME a happy viewer!
At least hollywood got more sophisticated 15 years later. Women didn't wear minidresses and go go boots on the USS Ente.....
Never mind
So much better than most SF movies of the time. No Martian monsters here, but an actual civilization on Mars. With a reasonable explanation of how they speak English. And a civilization ending problem.
Good movie. I like the marsians miniskirts!
I love this movie especially how realistic it is. Like how the Martians speak perfect North American English. Great entertaining science fiction though! especially the guy making the moves on the space chick!
I thought 💭🤔 that was the movie ,just not enough of it😂
This is hysterical. How cavalier they treated getting ready to go on a high-risk inter-planetary trip. Get picked up at the apartment, escorted directly to the door of the rocket and walk on the shipj in full civilian clothes. And of course....make sure the woman of the story wears high heels.
50s craziness.
I liked it.Born 45, this movie was pretty good.We didn't know at the time what we would learn later own.But still the human concerns have not changed,even to this day.
I love the subtle style of using canteen stools as seats in the very first flight in space. Those seats would snap your neck under acceleration. No belts, just reach out and grab the structures, and hope it isn't electrical.
It's a movie.
@@jerrybrickley2115 Worse than that. It is a Hollywood film, they always pervert the book, the play, the screenplay, or the script made for the film.
The legs on some of the Martians!!!
Holy shite Cameron Mitchell pre-westerns!! Legend
He also appeared in the film how to marry a millionaire 😊
I love that space travel is reduced to the banality of a bus ride down town.
Ride a bus in a slum...
@@Icry4us Advice not to, or just a statement? And you are referring to just the USA?
I was born in 1950. And this is the most serious and thoughtful science fiction picture I have ever seen...sort of..kinda, well maybe...just saying...
Sure it’s not Forbidden Planet but it’s fun .
😁😁😁😁
I would like to see a Gen x or gen z write a movie about 50 or 60 from now. And then have people watch it I. 60 years. Like you I was born in 1954, so I'm fascinated by their guess for thefuture
Just think about it, okay it thought 💭🤔 about it 😂
Try "Destination Moon" from 1950. It actually gets most of the then-known science right.
That rocket crashed into Mars at thousands of km/hr and wasn't scratched! And no one hurt! Must be made of impossiblium, we could use that tech on our roads.
Nice!
That's possible, or maybe Unobtainium.
NASA should have used that for that probe sent up a few years ago that crashed into the lunar south pole because the idiots at NASA were counting down the ft for landing and the ship computer was reading meters and it smashed into the surface like a trump train at election time.
They hadn't invented Explodium until Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea. 😅
Space travel with nice fedoras and WW2 flight jackets. That´s stylish. Pipes allowed, btw. I loved the film. The rocket was a large version of a V2...
I love that they are able to keep their shaky extension ladder hanging in the cabin for exiting the ship or brightening up the place with some fresh paint! The gyroscope keeps the cabin vertical at all times too! Love it.
Mission to Mars
What a hoot this movie is!
I really like how they crashed on Mars at almost ballistic speed, and they all walked away like they just had a fender bender in traffic.
Cool set design..a mix of mid century and martian weird angle walls. Love the council chamber doorway that everyone has to duck under ...
The crew ratio was all wrong. How could they expect 1 woman to wash all those clothes, make all those sammiches, Keep the rocket ship clean, and look after the men's "other" needs? Should been 4, maybe 5 women and 1 guy.
😂😅
Well, in her defense, she likely had all the "modern" high tech home appliances onboard. 😊
Be the same as being at home taking care of a bunch of crotch goblins
That's more like it😂.
I can relate this movie because this is how we played space games as kids. Wearing no special clothes. Being able to breath the air, no matter where we were. Aliens speaking English. A rocket ship that travels at the speed of light. Love it.
A gem of a movie, things were funnier back then...
Some of the cast is Marguerite Chapman, Cameron Mitchell, Virginia Huston, Arthur Franz John Litel, Richard Gaines and Morris Ankrum (was also in The Giant Claw, Earth vs the Flying Saucers)
👍
The actor who played the evil leader was also a judge off and on for years on Perry Mason. I think he may have been the general on Earth vs the Flying Saucers.
Полет мысли был тогда неудержим! На Марсе можно было ходить в обвановенном костюме с простыми противогазами, особенно корреспонденту. А местные прям все в скафандрах. Нет никакой невесомости, силы тяжести. Здорово! Всё ещё впереди! ❤❤❤❤ А вот оставить корабль без присмотра - это не хорошо🤷♀️
This is scifi done right - who cares about technical inaccuracies when you are too busy looking at legs
I’m just going to fly head first, engines at maximum, straight into this mountain and call it a landing!
My favorite part of these vintage sci-fi flicks is the smoke'n hot FEMs in their futuristic attire.
Well-filled brunettes in blue and high-heels! Like in 'Queen of Outer Space'!
"I see a place to 'LAND'. " @29:57 ~ their "landing" cracked me right up!
That landing should have turned them all into jelly. 😵💫
Before we get too snarky, this movie is effectively a remake of “Aelita”, one of the first full length sci-fi films made, in this case, in the Soviet Union in 1924. Aleksei Tolstoy, the original author of Aelita, gets a screenwriter credit although he died in 1945. The original Aelita revolved around class conflict and other Marxist themes, which, not surprisingly, did not figure into this Cold War era Hollywood production.
Do you have a playlist of iron curtain sci fi, just watched “First spaceship on Venus” and liked it.
Heavy 🪨😂
Those chairs were top of the line. You find them in flea markets, buy them.
One of the best parts of checking out these movies is reading all of the comments you jokers write. Almost better than the movies. Almost.
Yup. I agree. Must be Gen Z,s . Ha I'm sure they can't comprehend dial phone and no internet. LOL. I think the imagination of these 50's writers were way ahead of their time for what was actually known
@@hensonrobert5547 Somewhere on youtube a dad or mom hands their teen age kids a rotary phone and tell them to place a call and record the hilarity.
Gave this a like, just in appreciation for this being uploaded. Past works of art are a part of the historical record, even when they're complete crap.
Wow, "landing" nose first into a rock and not a scratch. They don't build them like that anymore.
John Deer.
Guess they have magnetic shirts, shoes and tobacco pipes too . . so smart and sciency!
I caught that too, Oxygen?…….OK
Pressure?……OK
Love it! Just cracks me up.
These classics are great!
I like the shades of blue in their colors.
9 days to Mars orbit. Damaged cables and batteries, but no decompression. Lets land... Nose first into a mountain. Opps. How very little they knew or cared about facts. But, still a good movie, like most of these 50s movies are.
like you said, just 1950s era science fiction. the best.
That's why it's called "Science FICTION".
Ah DUUUH.
:/
"Yarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 🐉 🐲 thar be Serpents 🐍 ♥️ "
The movie is called FLIGHT TO MARS, from 1951
It wasn't babe's in Toyland? Dang 😂
29:54 That was the most unrealistic "crash" in sci-fi movie history. The ship should have exploded into a million shards. But I did kind of like this flick.
The women of Mars are so forward thinking. Those skirts have just enough coverage for modesty, and more leg for maneuverability. The future looks great.
30:18 "Don't tell me we made it. " I always say that when I arrive at my destination. LOL
I have to say the set design is colorful, warm and artistic. This movie maybe lacking in science but a whole lot of whimsy to make it amusing. In many ways it holds true to pulp sci fi books of the forties, a little bit fantastic, lose on the science, good guy's, bad guys, and pretty women to match.
May be not maybe. Loose not lose.
No need for astronaut training or special equipment in those days any old camp bed will do
They don't make them like that no more
I’m in New Mexico desert watching this 2024 it’s so cool such relief from these troubling times we live …
How refreshingly naive the writers and film makers were in those days.
I like how everybody including the Martians speak with a combination of Mid-Atlantic accent and a weird New York accent.
Mars: home to the most advanced civilization in the galaxy, with access to technologies humans can only dream of...well...except for radio.
I love how the exhaust smoke floats up in outer space.
It's science 🤨
It's "space smoke" so, yeah.
Only 15 yrs later, the first episode of star trek is broadcast.
And finally the real exploration @ 22:45 . . . . Love in Space 🚀 And @ 55:00 . . . you can cut the space tension with a space-knife 🚀
Space Dart redefines the term “stick the landing.” Also, Martian mini-skirts redefine the term “stick the landing.” It’s vague with variable meaning.. Spock out.
Thanks for sharing this wonderful film!
Opening up a dialogue with the Humans and trading with Mars after overthrow, surely a great sequel?? Maybe a whole series?
Pace travel was so much simpler in those days
Apparently a Herman Miller salesman got to Mars first and sold the Martians all their furniture 😂
He got to Starfleet too.
Who is Herman Miller?
@@grouchosays an interior designer and "modern" furniture line of the mid 20th century
The producers of this film got a great deal on props for their
film at George Pal's big Yard Sale.
I couldn't find this title on IMDb. There's it's listed as "Flight to Mars".
No, nobody laughed. This was as serious and scientific sci-fi as it gets back then. Yes, I am that old. High heels don't work on the moon but are essential for Mars.
32:37 I knew the Teletubbies came from Mars, so NASA has been hiding the truth 😅
Jim Barker played by Arthur Franz. Long career in both TV and film. He was the "invisible man" in the Abbott and Costello movie and did a lot of sci-fi movies.
And Cameron Mitchell went on to bigger and better things. 😊
I was overwhelmed by the technical jargon. Oxygen is “ok.” Pressure is “ok.”
LOL!!I noticed that too.
Oxygen and pressure OK? What else do you need to travel to Mars?
@@Vette89 LOL!!
FLIGHT TO MARS (Monogram, 1951) In Cinecolor. Starring Cameron Mitchell, Arthur Franz, Marguerite Chapman, John Litel, Morris Ankrum. Produced by Walter Mirisch. Directed by Leslie Selander. Music by Marlin Skiles.
A fun colorful popcorn movie. Now available on DVD and Blu-Ray in restored Cinecolor!
A real classic, even though it's a B-movie, it's a good one! Welcome to the world of 1951.
Similar to George Pal's classic Technicolor space adventure DESTINATION MOON (1950) but Pal's film is an A picture which is scientifically accurate and inspired the American Space Program in the 1950s leading to the creation of NASA in 1958.
loved it, thanks, good vintage sci-fi
"This rocket is my coffin". Talk about a Debbie Downer!
Colorized movies always gives folks a mortuary tan.
This film is not colorized, it is in cinicolor, and Virginia Huston is an overlooked beauty. She has a good part in the film noir classic, Out of the Past.
You are correct. I looked it up on IMDb and it was originally in color @@randyacuna5643
@@randyacuna5643 she was also Lex Barker's Jane in TARZAN'S PERIL (1951)
Who would spend the time and money to colorize this?
@@deepcosmiclove flight to Mars is NOT Colorized, it is shot in cinicolor.. Monogram spent the money for this feature jumping on the space travel popularity after the 1950s color production of Destination Moon .
Nothing like low back chairs to counter act the effects of high G maneuvers.
Miss Universe on Mars.When on VENUS?❤❤❤❤❤
This is a excellent copy of a couple on the net. Mars is shown to be cold and barren which isnt too far off reality we know today and the "Martians" have their own problems and its all good fun and they even discuss about other "universes" perhaps just as we do today so its pretty good movie and open minded to what/how is out there.
The orange piece of equipment that had the landing gear system looks an awful lot like a Sperry ball turret as used on B17 and B24 bombers.... correct me if I am wrong....
"Open the pod bay door Hal"
I thought the same thing the instant I saw it! I'm sure that you're correct. It's just painted orange...
Smoking a pipe on the way to Mars, using mattresses as shock-absorbers ... Betcha NASA & SpaceX never thought of that! .. Huh? Huh?
What's that man smoken 😂
Those leather hats made the landing possible! Peta be damned!
never saw this before, similar plot to assignment outer space, this is a great times for film fans more and more obscure old movies available
One of the actors is Cameron Mitchell, I recognized him from the TV show "High Chaparral"
Babes in miniskirts and high heels. My kind of sci-fi.
The best kind!😅
We wish to thank Estes Park Colorado for the "special effects".
In the fifties, legs were the cheapest special effect in the business.
NASA didn't brush that out!😂
Highly advanced Martian civilization, but somehow the workers wear gladiator outfits.
They put 🧲 magnets in them ,didn't have any magnetism of there own!😊
And that sure was a crazy twist finding Martian people!
Like betraying their own people and follow the earth human back to earth.
Yeah. Didn't see
that one coming 🙄
No space suits. 7 days to Mars, They must be going the speed of light. LOL
2024: Yeh the spaceship wasn’t built by Boeing.
It was powered by the controversial atomic energy.
At closest approach (they said Mars was close), that would be about 5 minutes at the speed of light. I guestimate that t 7 days would be about how long it would take if your ship could accelerate halfway, and decelerate the rest of the way at about 1G. That would solve the gravity problem. At least they lampshaded the gravity problem by saying that the lady floated to the top before they got the artificial grav online. A week is about the round trip Apollo Moon trip time for the shortest stay (Apollo 11)
This movie would have been nothing without the female costume designers !
None of them are wearing space suits. Just wearing every day clothes. 😂
You only get one chance to make a good first impression when meeting Martians!
Advanced material that is fire proof. Kevlar. 😂
It's amazing how this incredibly advanced technology can allow people to be able to travel in space in such casual and comfortable intensely high heels and beautiful long legs as this masterpiece displays! Magnificent!
They utilize superior buoyancy stabilizers as well!
Aside from the regular, obvious nonsense, It's hard to imagine that even in 1951 they thought going to space would be such a cavalier and casual thing to do!
Accounting for spacecraft cockpit orientation in a place with no up or down?!?
The dude looked like he was closing a camper door before they took off for their little adventure to Mars which might as easily have been to the woods!
Looks as well-constructed as the OceanGate Titan ...
our survival is of second importance,,,,,, said no one ever
On Mars, the 'Teletubbies' meet 'the few'.😊
Musk could learn a thing or two from this movie.
Yes, always keep a ladder handy in the space ship, and bring enough cigarettes!
@af-np4pg
And short skirts and heels for after the landing.
Who knew the Teletubbies ruled Mars. Ha!
Even the men wear tights and miniskirts on Mars.
Smoking a pipe on a space ship 😂
The actual title is "Flight To Mars". And it was originally released in color (Cinecolor) in 1951 by Monogram Pictures. Being a "poverty row studio", it is surprising that Monogram spent the extra money for color film. Fun movie, but lets face it...a trip to Mars and our intrepid group are wearing street clothes...even Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon wore uniforms in those early serials. Speaking of uniforms, I loved the sexy outfits (mini-skirts) that the Martian women wore.
Or, why native 'martians' had to wear space suits but earth people didn't...just wore WW2 Pilot gear.
Thanks for the real title. Wiki didn't recognize the first title, but has an article on the real name. It's odd hearing Cameron Mitchell speaking normally without his hokey western cowboy accent. 😅
Had people out side asking for spare change😂
That is one tough space ship....
Good story, fine acting.
No need for space suits
And its the first space ship I've seen which creates its own gravity
Yea, the gyroscope keeps it “vertical” at all times he said. Hilarious.
Main effort is pulling wires and the heads up display harness to all electrical components.
The engineers assistant is beautiful .
Makes one forget one is on mars😂
The corrugated roofing was a nice touch.
movie needed about another 10 minutes to finish the story properly
considering when it was made
decent job all around.
You would think they could afford another 10 min considering they flew to mars in 9 days
actually quite good 👍 👏
Wow those Martian gals are smoking hot. I knew there was life on Mars what a great classic sci-fi