Robinson Crusoe on Mars

[Dinobot2468]

this films would be better if they didnt steal the design from the war of the worlds -_-

[TheRokkiephantomlove]

@Dinobot2468 its the very same machine they just borowed it

[AtorTheFlyingEagle]

@Dinobot2468 Same studio, same director of The War of the Worlds. Kind of explains the borrowing.

[ToughXArmy69]

Paramount produced this film and it has reached iconic status. I liked the films star Paul Mantee very much. Mantee worked steadily as a character actor but never attained stardom. When those who see this clip they will join me in wondering why Paul Mantee never became a major movie star. This film is great but the sets look too soundstage. Suprising for a major studio.

[Clarknipolo]

lol

[humboldtcounty1]

what a jerk.

[thedailydigestorg]

@humboldtcounty1 why such an asshole lol

[humboldtcounty1]

what the fuck is an astro mile?

[BloatedSensations]

@humboldtcounty1 About 1.6 space kilometers.

[AEigner]

@humboldtcounty1 space version of nautical mile, apparently ; )

[carnifexalpha]

I dont think many have noticed that the ships from Orion, look suspisciously like the Martian war machines from the original War of the Worlds movie.

[lollygaggle]

Who cuts his hair when on Mars?

[MarkBTW]

Did they seriously think Mars was hot? haha.

[rellik187redrum]

Friday should have been a chick, those saggy manboobs freaked me out abit , still a good 60's classic though. I liked first men on the moon too, saws them both today for the first time....

[bigdawg1974]

Great movie

[TheStupedCat]

A great Sci Fi Classic ,, Thanks for posting .. Onlyone thing to worry about is if Hollywood decides to do a remake..

[MrAndersohn]

LOL

[1Bandit455]

A SCI-FI Classic - one of the best  .

[MarsAttacksLeader]

In 1962, Mars Attacks Cards Came into being.

In 1964, This Movie Came out.

In 1964, my Parents took me with them to Reno, NV. Back then it was mainly, an adult gambling town. Not much for children. BUT>>

The only theater in Reno at the time had a great double bill.

This Movie headlined with George Pal's War Of The Worlds. !st. time I got to see both & on the Big Screen.

I've been hooked on all 3 ever since!

I've seen this movie at least 4 time on the Big Screen.

[advancedpillow]

this is coming out on blu-ray on January 11!

[ggzzbb]

"This film is scientifically authentic. It is only one step ahead of present reality !"

[JackFlanders]

The Orion Syndicate. lol

[dmace81]

Atomic batteries to power. Turbines to speed. Batman: Roger. Ready to move out

[anthonyisemo]

...but mars is cold...not hot

[eydukackbratze]

@anthonyisemo

Mars is red, so its gotta be hot. That is "scientific fact" !!!

[gemear2]

Really good special effects for its day... I used to love this when it was on TV, usually a Sunday matinée, back when they'd play films like this.

[TogieTung]

If this movie were made in today's version Man Friday would've become Robinson's Manbitch every night.

[ThatsMrMoronToYou]

Jeepers, look at Batman!

[eXtr3meb0y]

0:53 - WTF omg I kill u!

[eXtr3meb0y]

0:53 - WTF omg I kill u!

[Eddiesix]

I remember watching this movie on TV when I was a kid... loved it then and I love it now...one of the great fun sci-fi movies of the sixties!!

[scottlong09]

did paramont use the old flying saucers from war of the worlds

[Beamshipcaptain]

Yes. Same Studi, manta-ray saucers from WAR OF THE WORLDS, 9 years previous, slightly modified. Loved this film when I first saw it on the big movie screen in 1964 when I was a kid, along with FIRST MEN IN THE MOON.

[scottlong09]

first men in the moon is one of the great sci-fi classics

[DChatc]

The alien ships, they're basically WotWs ships painted white, the shower-nozzles removed and ruby diodes attached underneath...

[MightySaturn5]

great movie

[skozey]

Thanx for posting, couldn't find a trailer for this anywhere else.

[Beamshipcaptain]

Modern physics views vacuum not as void, but a plenum of random electron-positron fluctuations known as Zero-Point Energy. Puthoff has also shown that in addition to Casimir and Van der Waals forces, ZPE is represented by the converging-flux of ZPE known as GRAVITATION.

[Beamshipcaptain]

I have LOVED this great movie ever since I saw it on the big screen in 1964. Now I have the widescreen DVD and I watch it on 50" plasma. Great script, and great effects, and the first use of videotape in a sci-fi film. Came in handy for survival on Mars. Mars has a 24-hour day, and blue skies, just like Earth.

[9bahai9]

I saw this movie after it had been out for awhile, I think 1967 and I loved it. I saw Adam West in person and he said it was made from the money that was left from another movie's budget. In other words, ULTRA low budget. But what it has is quality. They must have learned from Roger Corman how to milk every penny. The effects are wonderful. They shot in beautiful Death Valley and they superimposed the red skies very effectively.

[maureencora1]

This is the first sci-fi I saw in 1965 at 8 yrs old. a great picture.

[ForABetterTomorrow]

science has destroyed science fiction >:

[Beamshipcaptain]

Science fiction comes from science. Remember what our science and technology was like 100-years ago in 1909? Extrapolate: what will our science and technology look like in the year 2109?

[ForABetterTomorrow]

green technology with which everyone starves to death :o

[Beamshipcaptain]

No, green technology which brings abundance, and less-expensive living, and lebensraum in the infinite-ocean of space, instead of trying to fit seven billion human-beings in a planet that was only ecologically-balanced for 500-million human-souls, such as our Earth (Sol-3).

[ForABetterTomorrow]

hehe good one

[Beamshipcaptain]

Please read THE FUTURE OF ENERGY (2009), by Thomas Valone, PhD, BREAKTHROUGH POWER (2009), by Jeane Manning and Joel Garbon, SUBQUANTUM KINETICS (1994,2003), by Paul A LaViolette,PhD,, THE MANUAL OF FREE ENERGY DEVICES AND SYSTEMS by DA Kelly, REVOLUTIONS IN PHYSICS(2009), by Joe Firmage, QUEST FOR ZERO POINT ENERGY (2002), by Moray King. Educate yourself in the New Energy Paradigm. INFINITE energy surrounds us, and pervades spacetime fabric.

[ForABetterTomorrow]

Well, there are quantum fluctuations, the TOTAL energy in the universe is zero, though.

But the point is that any technology, any scientific breakthrough is useless without a proper philosohpy, without a free society that supports it. In Ancient Greece they knew the fundamentals of the steam engine but only the INDUSTRIAL revolution, i.e. Capitalism, led to its use in everyday life.

[Beamshipcaptain]

Wheeler (GEOMETRODYNAMICS,1962) derives an energy density equivalent of 10^94 grams/cm^3 for individual fluctuations on the scale of a Planck length of 10^-33 cm. The fluctuations are ubiquitous, and a radiation detector requires an energy difference to get a reading.Puthoff has shown that the Hydrogen atoms stability is due to ZPE interaction. EVERY elemental particle derices its charge from ZPE, due to its SPIN. R. Forward made a battery that charges thru Casimir-effect.

[huhubro]

All-white science?

[Beamshipcaptain]

What?

[EmperorNorton2008]

What is it with movie astronauts and guns? The solar system is dead, and it's a shock if you ever see an alien in a old Scifi film. Not much reason to bring a loaded pistol 30,000,000 miles.

[walkitabouter]

I like that the attacking humanoids from another galaxy are doing exactly the same thing as the miners from the constellation Orion, in the exact same ships.

[PriusRider]

scientifically authentic...

yehr, especial the alien atack <.<

[S1nwar]

looks like they really tried to include as much probable scifi events as possible

[rcaravana]

"This film is scientifically authentic." Hahahaha

Oh, NASA...

It is one step ahead of our present reality...

[Beamshipcaptain]

I don't see any technology here that is any more advanced from Earth technology 45-years ago, except the alien saucers and lasers. Lasers were still only 5-years old in 1964.

[jamierourketen]

hey thats batman!

[fakespotter]

'the scorching surface of the fire swamp that is mars' haha

[only257]

good trailer, impressive special effects!

[shannadesnort96]

I Love this movie old time favourite!!

[shf84]

The alien lazer sound efect is farmiliar lol

[mervrun]

They used the same sound in War of The Worlds(original moviewith gene Barry)

[only257]

war of the worlds 1953 shf84

[myothernamewastaken2]

in the future monkeys talk in squeaks! man the futures gonna kickass.

[SolarTiger]

"Scientifically accurate..." other than those Fire-Storms...we made that up for added drama...and please ignore the stock footage of lava-flows and avalanches...I joke but as a kid, this movie was on late TV and I thought it was really neat...but hey!..circa 1964/65...what else WAS there?!?!

[georgemargaris]

haha, nice introduction

[armenac92]

tupical old school fantasy movies.

[SweetAmber000]

but notice the ads in the beginning: "Science-fact" and stuff.. They really thought that Mars would be like that in that time. lol. To me that movie is more like a comedy

[mystenzo]

God bless Adam West--a true American treasure. Someday the world will truly appreciate this man's work!

[cossack207]

YES!! He's GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[autobodypro]

Awesome sci-fi flick! realistic for its time. First time I saw Adam West(Batman)

[stevelondon]

Scientifically authentic! haha

[thedt]

This looks awesome! I want them to remake this! Can you imagine how cool this movie would be with today's technology?

[stanssoapbox]

Never seen the film but it's got to be good if it stars Adam West.

[scotpens]

The film's star is Paul Mantee, who plays the marooned astronaut Cmdr. Christopher "Kit" Draper and is literally in every scene. Adam West's screen time totals about seven minutes.

Mona the monkey had a bigger part. She probably had a better agent.

[glimmer2158]

Is it just me or does anyone else think that Paul Mantee looks a little like the host of Dirty Jobs, Nike Rowe?

[edward4191]

Robinson Crusoe On Mars is on Sky Classics at 2.20 on the 20th April

[eventvisionsinc]

this is so ahead of its time..just amazing.....love it

[Jamjumetley]

Great Film! Watched it as a kid. Great memories!

[etepoloccip]

Wishing I could see the whole movie again. It was a real fun watch when I was a kid.

[sufizmjim]

this is fantastic and eirily real,what a metaphor for our present whorld of circumstances.

[superdanboy23]

whoa, Adam West!

[boomerhgt]

Classic old si fi movie loved it as a kid

[IwantwhatIcanthave]

This movie was so fun to watch when I was a kid.

[cornell76]

Great reminder of a really fun and even thought provoking film.

[ironman2648]

Maybe the boys of MST3K should've looked into this one. :) And no.. Batman didn't survive the crash.

[droptheoxygen]

scientifically authentic, huh?

[scotpens]

For all we knew back in 1964, Mars could have had a shirtsleeve climate and a thin but breathable atmosphere. The film's credibility really only goes south halfway through the story, when the character Friday is introduced. If these aliens have such advanced technology, what do they still need slaves for? I guess they don't want to mess with tradition.

[artberry]

Probably because it's easier and more cost effective to genetically engineer a self sustaining slave race, than to build and maintain robots.

[scotpens]

Actually I think the opposite would be true, at least when it comes to simple, repetitive tasks like the mining work the slaves are shown doing in this movie. The aliens come from outside our solar system, which means they've mastered interstellar travel. We don't know what propulsion technology they use, but their ships have no apparent thrusters or external exhaust. They have massively powerful energy beams. And they still need slaves?

[artberry]

Well yes I guess if they could detect and translocate minerals they wouldn't need to send someone, or something down a hole to get them. But then there wouldn't be a story. Of course that is the problem with Sci-fi, a story is usually based around some sort of struggle. So technological or physical limitations and the struggle to over come them are often the whole basis of the story.

[scotpens]

And in the case of RCOM, not just a story, but specifically the Robinson Crusoe story on Mars. The title tells you exactly what the picture's about - what Hollywood types call "high concept." Which means the hero has to have his man Friday, who in this case is an escaped slave. If they'd made him a Martian native, there'd be his whole race and their civilization to deal with. Too complicated, and would take away the focus from the main story of the hero struggling to survive on an alien world.

[nigelpeever]

looks like batman didn't survive the crash >:-( otherwise it could have been "robinson crusoe and batman on mars" an even more sure fire winning title!

[gogsy]

Love this film never been shown for years on tv though.Thanks for trailer ed4191.