This was my Dad’s favorite film. Once he got the Criterion Collection version of it, I watched it and loved it. My Dad has since passed away, but this movie is a great memory I have with him and an enjoyable film on top of that. 🚀
Mom and dad took me to see this movie when I was a kid at the Ohio Valley Drive In in Follansbee WV. I was absolutely mesmerized. Still love it to this day.
Robinson Crusoe on Mars is a great film, fairly scientifically accurate for its time. Mantee and Lundin are superb. For years I have loved this vastly underrated film and own the Criterion Collection version. I'm so glad you featured it in its own "Everything you need to know" video. It was great!
I caught this on television one Saturday afternoon as a preteen and was enthralled by the whole thing and still to this day consider it one of the best science fiction films of that decade
Thank you for highlighting this lost classic. One of my favorite memories at the movies when I was young. You are correct -- a very imaginative and underrated film.
Thank you so much, Jonathan, for featuring what I believe to be one of the most wonderfully human science fiction movies of the early 60's. It is films like this; along with The War Of The Worlds, Forbidden Planet, and later the television series Star Trek which truly ushered in the modern Sci/Fi era.
I watched this film on TV on Boxing Day morning with my Dad in 1970 or 1971 I am guessing when I was 7 or 8 years old. Watching the film that morning holds cosy, nice memories. I've never managed to see it since and in some ways the magic dies when you watch things as an adult that you remember so nostalgically in your mind. My Dad is long gone and I am 58 now - I am finally going to watch the film again given the comments mean my happy memories are of a good film!
One of my favorite old Sci Fi movies. It's brilliantly done. This, Forbidden Planet, and The Day The Earth Stood Still stand out from that era as work better than it's contemporaries.
Oooooh. I was 9, and remember seeing this in a theater. The music.......or at least the first few notes in the main theme.....I used to attempt to play that on the organ we had recently purchased, and was setting in our living room. Must have driven my parents crazy. I had forgotten all about it, until I saw this movie again a few years ago. That theme suddenly jumped out at me.
I remember seeing it in a theater....& a few years later, my parents had bought an organ. I recall driving my mother crazy, because I kept playing the same 2 or 3 chords over & over. Several years ago, I saw the movie again.....either on TV or possibly TH-cam. I instantly recognized the music I'd been trying to play on that organ.
This film is one of the best films of it's time and was let down by bad advertising! I totally agree that both actors deserve better praise than they got.. one of the best films in Sci-Fi and up there with the best. I like to see someone try and do a remake now and see if it flops or is a success? Almost all classic film remakes are a flop.
I was a child when I saw this and it was late 70s early 80s when I saw it. I knew it was an old movie when I sat down to watch it but I was quickly captivated as I had read the book Robinson Cursoe and loved that book. I really enjoyed the movie and I have always remembered it as being a good movie to me.
I extremely happy to get this movie on DVD. I grew up watching this on Saturday afternoons. It's hard to believe it didn't do well at the box office. It's sch a great movie.
This is one of my favorite movies. I'd like to see something about U.F.O., Space 1999, and The Time Travelers. Your videos are very informative. Thank you. Oh, don't forget Journey to the Far Side of the Sun.
This film is actually a beautiful time capsule. It highlights the emerging technology of the era, and explores a space that was virtually unknown. There were indeed expectations that Mars would be more Earthlike than Marslike. The Mariner missions showed how overly optimistic these expectations were, and the film's reputation may have suffered afterwards, but in more recent years it has been viewed more appropriately as a high point in Science Fiction filmmaking.
A favorite of mine since I was a kid. I picked up a nice DVD of the movie years ago at a Sci-Fi Convention. My grandson loved it, and called it “The Monkey Movie”, I wonder why? Great movie, thanks for the insight in it’s making.
I never listen to movie critics. This is an excellent movie, tells a good story the effects were done well. When I first saw this film on a Saturday afternoon it was on the big screen and I was 10 or 11. I was very fortunate to grow up near a movie theater they played movies on Saturday and Sunday afternoon that us kids would line up and fill the theater not really knowing the movies besides what ever the window cards said. I went as often as I could some week I got to go both days. I saw musicals, space movies just everything was brought in I attribute my love for movies to that man that owned that theater it was like an education in cinema. Thanks for another good video
Love this film, it used to get shown a lot on Saturday morning tv when I was a kid. Managed to get it on blu ray a couple of years ago. One of my all time fav sci fi films.
The strength of this movie is the well portrayed isolation and danger. Fortunately there will be no remake, as it flopped originally and has no 'franchise'.
The movie was made prior to knowing what we now know about Mars, but it still was an excellent movie and well done. One of my favorite classic science fiction movies.
It WAS a good film. For the times, the Martian conditions were reasonably accurate and the survival logic well established. The title was all wrong, though. I wasn't aware that the studio flubbed the publicity campaign, as well. It deserved better. Good performances by Mantee and Lunden.
Thank you Jonny. This is a classic sci-fi fantasy. Mars was never cooler than in this movie (and hotter actually... and breathable!). For your great review, hey hey! Cheers!
This movie has always been one of my favorite Sci-Fi productions ever since I was a youngster growing up during the Space Age. I was very grateful that Criterion made it part of their collection.
The Criterion blu-ray release of this is a must-have for any afficiando of sci-fi films. Watch it on a big screen, if you can. The Mars vistas (filmed in Death Valley), and the nearly flawless replacement of Earth's blue sky with Mars' red one, are amazing. There are also lots of closeup shots of Kip's equipment. And really shows the care and attention that went into the making of this movie.
I remember when this movie hit the theaters in the summer of 1964. I wanted to see it but was unable to because we went to camp instead. I was bitterly disappointed and had to wait 20 years to see it on TV. One of my favorite scenes was where Paul Mantee is watching a survival video on how to find water in the desert and comments about how boring he remembers the lecturer being. It was such a touchingly believable and human thing to do, and served to reinforce to the audience just how far away from civilization and help he really was.
I was fortunate enough to meet both actors at a Convention and purchased a personally signed autograph from them. However, before "The Martian" and "Robinson Carusoe on Mars" there was the novel "First On Mars" by Rex Gordon with virtually the same plot as "Robinson Carusoe on Mars' and was never given credit. Best, Nick
Love it I remember watching this movie on WGN show called Family Theater came on every Sunday and many years later I got the CD lol and now I watch it with my son and grandson 👍
Still one of my favorite films. How this bombed at the box office, regardless of the title, is a mystery to me. A larger budget would've helped. It stands above 95% of the other science fiction movies of that time. A true classic.
It's one of my favorite science fiction films. Some of the background music and sound effects on the way to Mars is similar to that found on TOS. I've tried to look to see what commonality there was whether in composing or orchestration or sound effects. But haven't been able to track down the common source. Probably something easy to see but I'm just overlooking it.
I first saw this back in the 80's. From the title I was expecting a bad cheesy B movie, but I really liked it. It's now one of my favorite Sci/Fi movies.
Saw it at the theater at age 10. I vividly recall Adam West's crashed craft and his dismembered hand. Loved the images of the ships in orbit too. Great, intelligent flick.
*This movie was the 'first of it's kind' and is beyond question 'the best that could be done' in '64...it is still a 'benchmark' for every other serious 'space adventure' movie* *I once spoke with NASA engineer who was in Las Vegas in the late 70's about this very movie and he said "Everyone involved in the 'Apollo' program 'loved it' because it was 'damned good publicity' as well as being as 'correct as far as a fiction movie can be' and that the only real problem they had with it was 'The atmosphere was far too 'thick'...Mars has so little atmospheric-pressure if any human tried to breath it even once the lungs would collapse and begin 'bubbling-out' or words to that effect* *Imagine you're 70,000ft. up in Earth's atmosphere...without a pressure-suit, you would die very quickly because your own blood would begin to 'boil' from your own body-heat* *I first saw this at a 'drive-in' in Las Vegas ( the 'Skyway on Boulder Hwy'.) when I was ten and was so impressed with it that the feeling has never left me of 'this is great...this could be real!'...and it's very disheartening to realize I won't live long enough to see an American step foot on another World when it SHOULD have happened already*
To this day, when I see cattails growing near the water I remember this film and the monkey eating them with Robinson Crusoe on Mars! Yep one of my favorite films on TV from my childhood.
AND a practically forgotten one. Alan Caylow was right in his own review to the movie that when THE MARTIAN got out noone even mentioned this classic for comparison
This film made a huge impression on me when I saw it at 6 years old. I only wish they played the score which I remember vividly. I was lucky enough to catch it once or twice on TV, but it's been years.
Very good science fiction film with a very good and underrated actor, Paul Mantee. He also co-starred with Robert Duvall in one of my favorite films "The Great Santini" where he portrayed (again playing a military guy) a Marine pilot. I believe he passed away recently. RIP Paul.
I remember first seeing this movie with my brothers at The Wakefield Theater in The Bronx,NYC back in 1964. My brothers hated it..but I love it..it is a realistic and well done look at an astronaut marooned on another planet.
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One of my favorite movies from my childhood! Still watch it when I get a chance.
One of my best Sci-Fi movies. Was only 12 when the film came out and always enjoy it now.
I would frequently see this movie on late night TV and loved it each and every time.
This was my Dad’s favorite film. Once he got the Criterion Collection version of it, I watched it and loved it. My Dad has since passed away, but this movie is a great memory I have with him and an enjoyable film on top of that. 🚀
Nice.
Cool
Long live the memory of your Dad!❤
This has aged extremely well. Still very enjoyable 65 years later.
it,s 55 years old not 65!
Mom and dad took me to see this movie when I was a kid at the Ohio Valley Drive In in Follansbee WV. I was absolutely mesmerized. Still love it to this day.
I watched this movie in our Hometown Theater in 1964 and loved it.Occasionally I see it playing on TV and watch it.
This and Forbidden Planet were my favorite movies of my childhood.
Forbidden Planet and This Film was a Double Feature in 1964 on the Big Screen when I was 7 yrs. old.
@@donaldclay9535 oh I didn't know that. 2 of my favorites
Robinson Crusoe on Mars is a great film, fairly scientifically accurate for its time. Mantee and Lundin are superb. For years I have loved this vastly underrated film and own the Criterion Collection version. I'm so glad you featured it in its own "Everything you need to know" video. It was great!
I AGREE. I thought it was an outstanding film. Saw it several times on TV.
Mantee and Lundin were henchmen in the Batman series starring Adam West.
I caught this on television one Saturday afternoon as a preteen and was enthralled by the whole thing and still to this day consider it one of the best science fiction films of that decade
Thank you for highlighting this lost classic. One of my favorite memories at the movies when I was young. You are correct -- a very imaginative and underrated film.
One of my fave Sci Fi fliks as a kid....still watch it on occasion......
Always a favorite of mine when I was a kid and was actually shown quite frequently on TV. Thanks for a great review and breakdown.
A very UNDERRATED film!
Saw this wonderful movie at the time of its release at the cinema in my home town in England. Unforgettable experience!
One of my favorites.
Thank you so much, Jonathan, for featuring what I believe to be one of the most wonderfully human science fiction movies of the early 60's.
It is films like this; along with The War Of The Worlds, Forbidden Planet, and later the television series Star Trek which truly ushered in the modern Sci/Fi era.
I watched this film on TV on Boxing Day morning with my Dad in 1970 or 1971 I am guessing when I was 7 or 8 years old. Watching the film that morning holds cosy, nice memories. I've never managed to see it since and in some ways the magic dies when you watch things as an adult that you remember so nostalgically in your mind. My Dad is long gone and I am 58 now - I am finally going to watch the film again given the comments mean my happy memories are of a good film!
I just saw Victor as the Lobsterman in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. I thought I recognized that face. Thanks for the video.
I remembered this, As one of my all time childhood favorites !!!!
One of my favorite old Sci Fi movies. It's brilliantly done. This, Forbidden Planet, and The Day The Earth Stood Still stand out from that era as work better than it's contemporaries.
I saw this film when it first came out and was very impressed, I was 14. Many years later I bought the blu-ray and it still holds up quite well.
I remember seeing this in the theatre when I was about 11. I loved the film,enjoyed it immensely,thought the cast did a good job and it was realistic.
I loved it too. When he's dreaming and is visited by his dead partner from the craft really scared me. At the time, that was so scary to me.
A fantastic movie with with two great actors. I love the film then and now.
One of my Faves as a Kid 🚀🇺🇸
Mine too
My favorite part is when he and Mona discovers those little sausages!
Great film. I saw this in the pictures and was thoroughly impressed.
Saw it when it came out, love it.
I love this film, plus there's a motif (riff) in the music score, that's just great.
Oooooh. I was 9, and remember seeing this in a theater. The music.......or at least the first few notes in the main theme.....I used to attempt to play that on the organ we had recently purchased, and was setting in our living room. Must have driven my parents crazy. I had forgotten all about it, until I saw this movie again a few years ago. That theme suddenly jumped out at me.
Love this film! Bought the Blu-ray a while back.👍🏼👍🏼
Agree. A very fine film that holds up well today, under rated.
I remember seeing it in a theater....& a few years later, my parents had bought an organ. I recall driving my mother crazy, because I kept playing the same 2 or 3 chords over & over. Several years ago, I saw the movie again.....either on TV or possibly TH-cam. I instantly recognized the music I'd been trying to play on that organ.
This film is one of the best films of it's time and was let down by bad advertising! I totally agree that both actors deserve better praise than they got.. one of the best films in Sci-Fi and up there with the best. I like to see someone try and do a remake now and see if it flops or is a success? Almost all classic film remakes are a flop.
It did have a remake 2 films come to mind. Enemy mine & the martian. Not direct remakes. But to me they are
One of my favorite movies. I saw it when it was first released in the movie theater in Muncy, Pa. Loved this movie.
I was a child when I saw this and it was late 70s early 80s when I saw it. I knew it was an old movie when I sat down to watch it but I was quickly captivated as I had read the book Robinson Cursoe and loved that book. I really enjoyed the movie and I have always remembered it as being a good movie to me.
6.27 The image of 'Byron Haskins' used here is actually a photo of H G Wells!
I guess he put the picture in as a reference to the War Of The Worlds.
First thing I thought was “Haskins looks a lot like HG Wells!”
Always liked this movie. My dad used to watch it on TV back in the early '80's. I've seen it a number of times, too. I believe it's on TH-cam.
What a great video as loved this film as a child and was great to find out a bit more about it.
I extremely happy to get this movie on DVD. I grew up watching this on Saturday afternoons. It's hard to believe it didn't do well at the box office. It's sch a great movie.
It’s one of those films, that when you are flipping thru the channels and you see it on...you HAVE to watch it.
I really liked this film, I got to meet Paul Manteca’s at a modelers conversation in Los Angles back in the 1990s. Thanks for posting your review👍🏼
This is one of my favorite movies. I'd like to see something about U.F.O., Space 1999, and The Time Travelers. Your videos are very informative. Thank you. Oh, don't forget Journey to the Far Side of the Sun.
My mother took me to see this movie when I was eleven years old. Great movie for it's time and still is.
Me and my late father use to watch it on WGN on Sunday as part of their classic movies as it was based on the classic Robinson Crusoe.
Loved this as a kid, it was hard to find for many years
This film is actually a beautiful time capsule. It highlights the emerging technology of the era, and explores a space that was virtually unknown. There were indeed expectations that Mars would be more Earthlike than Marslike. The Mariner missions showed how overly optimistic these expectations were, and the film's reputation may have suffered afterwards, but in more recent years it has been viewed more appropriately as a high point in Science Fiction filmmaking.
A favorite of mine since I was a kid. I picked up a nice DVD of the movie years ago at a Sci-Fi Convention. My grandson loved it, and called it “The Monkey Movie”, I wonder why? Great movie, thanks for the insight in it’s making.
Haskin also directed episodes of the original "The Outer Limits" and created special effects for the series as well.
Yes including the awesome "Architects of Fear"
@@x.y.8581 And "Demon With A Glass Hand." Very talented man.
I never listen to movie critics. This is an excellent movie, tells a good story the effects were done well. When I first saw this film on a Saturday afternoon it was on the big screen and I was 10 or 11. I was very fortunate to grow up near a movie theater they played movies on Saturday and Sunday afternoon that us kids would line up and fill the theater not really knowing the movies besides what ever the window cards said. I went as often as I could some week I got to go both days. I saw musicals, space movies just everything was brought in I attribute my love for movies to that man that owned that theater it was like an education in cinema. Thanks for another good video
You put an amazing amount of work into these videos. Very impressive.
Thank you so much 😊
Love this film, it used to get shown a lot on Saturday morning tv when I was a kid. Managed to get it on blu ray a couple of years ago. One of my all time fav sci fi films.
The strength of this movie is the well portrayed isolation and danger. Fortunately there will be no remake, as it flopped originally and has no 'franchise'.
I saw this movie when I was a kid and I love every minute of it every time I watch it! :)
Underrated
The movie was made prior to knowing what we now know about Mars, but it still was an excellent movie and well done. One of my favorite classic science fiction movies.
I met Victor Lundin a few years before he passed away. He was a nice man as well as his wife.
Obscure '60's sci-fi. A true "Classic".
It WAS a good film. For the times, the Martian conditions were reasonably accurate and the survival logic well established. The title was all wrong, though. I wasn't aware that the studio flubbed the publicity campaign, as well. It deserved better. Good performances by Mantee and Lunden.
Thank you Jonny. This is a classic sci-fi fantasy. Mars was never cooler than in this movie (and hotter actually... and breathable!). For your great review, hey hey! Cheers!
This movie has always been one of my favorite Sci-Fi productions ever since I was a youngster growing up during the Space Age. I was very grateful that Criterion made it part of their collection.
Saw this in Seattle.
Classic film and influential over all and in the genre.
I saw this as a kid and really liked it. I guess I need to watch it again. I guess once every 35 years isn't bad.
I used to watch the reruns of this movie as a kid when television was fun to watch. Still love this movie after all those years.
The Criterion blu-ray release of this is a must-have for any afficiando of sci-fi films. Watch it on a big screen, if you can. The Mars vistas (filmed in Death Valley), and the nearly flawless replacement of Earth's blue sky with Mars' red one, are amazing. There are also lots of closeup shots of Kip's equipment. And really shows the care and attention that went into the making of this movie.
Classic Sci-Fi, Well Done for the 1960s. I was 7 yrs. old in 1964 when I First Saw it on the Big Screen.
When I was young, I loved this film. Thank you for this video, it’s excellent.
Much better than people give it credit for. The Criterion release is well deserved.
I remember when this movie hit the theaters in the summer of 1964. I wanted to see it but was unable to because we went to camp instead. I was bitterly disappointed and had to wait 20 years to see it on TV. One of my favorite scenes was where Paul Mantee is watching a survival video on how to find water in the desert and comments about how boring he remembers the lecturer being. It was such a touchingly believable and human thing to do, and served to reinforce to the audience just how far away from civilization and help he really was.
This IS my Favorite film of the era. I have a Laserdisc of it and go back and watch it every few years. For years I wanted a Mona Monkey as a Pet. LOL
I was fortunate enough to meet both actors at a Convention and purchased a personally signed autograph from them. However, before "The Martian" and "Robinson Carusoe on Mars" there was the novel "First On Mars" by Rex Gordon with virtually the same plot as "Robinson Carusoe on Mars' and was never given credit. Best, Nick
Great review, thank you.
This has been one of my favorite films since I first saw it on TV as a kid.
Love it I remember watching this movie on WGN show called Family Theater came on every Sunday and many years later I got the CD lol and now I watch it with my son and grandson 👍
I agree that the title given to the film was unfortunate. Something like Marooned on Mars would have served it better.
An excellent flick.
One of my favorites that I caught on TV as a kid.
It was a cool movie think I'm going to watch it again..
Still one of my favorite films.
How this bombed at the box office, regardless of the title, is a mystery to me. A larger budget would've helped.
It stands above 95% of the other science fiction movies of that time. A true classic.
The scariest part for me was when Adam West appeared after he was supposedly dead with those scary staring eyes .
It's one of my favorite science fiction films. Some of the background music and sound effects on the way to Mars is similar to that found on TOS. I've tried to look to see what commonality there was whether in composing or orchestration or sound effects. But haven't been able to track down the common source. Probably something easy to see but I'm just overlooking it.
I first saw this back in the 80's. From the title I was expecting a bad cheesy B movie, but I really liked it. It's now one of my favorite Sci/Fi movies.
Saw it at the theater at age 10. I vividly recall Adam West's crashed craft and his dismembered hand. Loved the images of the ships in orbit too. Great, intelligent flick.
I have wanted to know since 1964 what in the heck they were eating (for real) in that cave!?? Sausages, hotdogs???
It's one of my all time favourite Sci Fi films :)
God I love this movie.
I remember watching this movie back in the 1970’s as a kid. It was very entertaining 18th century literature with a sci-fi twist.
I saw this several times on t.v. growing up and even despite the thrill of 70s and early 80s sci-fi, I really enjoyed this old movie. 👍
I love this film,the first time seen it I was blown away of just the story alone
*This movie was the 'first of it's kind' and is beyond question 'the best that could be done' in '64...it is still a 'benchmark' for every other serious 'space adventure' movie* *I once spoke with NASA engineer who was in Las Vegas in the late 70's about this very movie and he said "Everyone involved in the 'Apollo' program 'loved it' because it was 'damned good publicity' as well as being as 'correct as far as a fiction movie can be' and that the only real problem they had with it was 'The atmosphere was far too 'thick'...Mars has so little atmospheric-pressure if any human tried to breath it even once the lungs would collapse and begin 'bubbling-out' or words to that effect* *Imagine you're 70,000ft. up in Earth's atmosphere...without a pressure-suit, you would die very quickly because your own blood would begin to 'boil' from your own body-heat* *I first saw this at a 'drive-in' in Las Vegas ( the 'Skyway on Boulder Hwy'.) when I was ten and was so impressed with it that the feeling has never left me of 'this is great...this could be real!'...and it's very disheartening to realize I won't live long enough to see an American step foot on another World when it SHOULD have happened already*
Fabulous movie.
You should really make a video about Gerry Anderson's UFO.
I echo your comment, but I hadn't seen your comment and I already had the idea. Naturally Space 1999 would be another possible review choice.
Since we're on the topic of Gerry Anderson, you can't forget The Thunderbirds or Capt. Scarlett!!
Eck the gayest looking scifi show ever made! Those costumes, hairdos, and makeup worn.....and I'm not talking about the women in the show.
This film was ahead of its time.
To this day, when I see cattails growing near the water I remember this film and the monkey eating them with Robinson Crusoe on Mars! Yep one of my favorite films on TV from my childhood.
One of my favorite sci-fi movies. I picked up the Criterion Collection Edition and it is beautiful and sound amazing.
I definitely recommend it.
Very underrated film.
AND a practically forgotten one. Alan Caylow was right in his own review to the movie that when THE MARTIAN got out noone even mentioned this classic for comparison
This film made a huge impression on me when I saw it at 6 years old. I only wish they played the score which I remember vividly. I was lucky enough to catch it once or twice on TV, but it's been years.
Very good science fiction film with a very good and underrated actor, Paul Mantee. He also co-starred with Robert Duvall in one of my favorite films "The Great Santini" where he portrayed (again playing a military guy) a Marine pilot. I believe he passed away recently. RIP Paul.
I remember first seeing this movie with my brothers at The Wakefield Theater in The Bronx,NYC back in 1964. My brothers hated it..but I love it..it is a realistic and well done look at an astronaut marooned on another planet.