Red Planet Mars Movie Review

“The Sermon on the Mount…on Mars!” The ads promised “out of this world excitement and suspense,” but this adaptation of the play Red Planet, by John L. Balderson and John Hoare, is mostly limited to two laboratory sets. Peter Graves stars as a scientist who picks up radio transmissions from a utopian Mars that plunge our planet into economic and spiritual chaos, especially when later messages appear to be coming from God. Herbert Berghof co-stars as an ex-Nazi (in cahoots with the Russians) who is causing all the static. Not what one would call a good movie, perhaps, but you've never seen anything like it.

1952 87m/B Peter Graves, Andrea King, Marvin Miller, Herbert Berghof, House Peters Jr., Vince Barnett, Morris Ankrum, Walter Sande; D: Harry Horner; W: Anthony Veiller, John Balderston; C: Joseph Biroc. VHS MGM, FCT