Col. Thomas O'Bannion
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The Angry Red Planet began as The Planet Mars, a treatment written by Sidney Pink about a space voyage to Earth's mysterious neighbor. Pink said in an interview a few years before his 2002 death: "It was written on my kitchen table.
Edit. The first spaceship to Mars, presumed lost, is found in space and brought back to Earth by remote control. Only two from an initial crew of four are still alive, but one is unconscious due to an attached alien growth, while the other is traumatized, blocking out all memory of what happened.
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- Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
- Ib Melchior
- 1959-11-23
in full, polarized CineMagic red, you hear the refrain of Manifest Destiny. When the explorers land, they invoke the Santa Maria’s ghost and its spectral companion, the label, “New World.”
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Yet if for nothing else, one must admire director Melchior and his regular partner, screenwriter Pink, for striving to make their film seem distinctly imaginative, in ways ranging from its peculiar frame story to their unique visualization of Mars: the astronauts' scenes on the Martian surface are tinted a garish red, and the backgrounds mix ...
Synopsis. The movie opens with a night shot of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. Next is an aerial view of the Pentagon Building during the day. A limousine is escorted to the Pentagon by police motorcycles. Two military officers exit the vehicle and walk briskly to a conference room.
After a mission to the red planet goes awry, it is left to the people on Earth along with a barely awake crew member to decipher what went wrong in their expedition. The above dialogue is uttered by one of the scientists as he finds a crew member alive.
The Angry Red Planet ★★ Invasion of Mars; Journey to Planet Four 1959. An unintentionally amusing sci-fi adventure about astronauts on Mars fighting off aliens and giant, ship-swallowing amoebas. Filmed using bizarre “Cinemagic” process, which turns almost everything pink.
