Mission Mars (1968) trailer

A B-Movie film past its prime, this little puppy hit the circuits in 1968, the same year Nick Adams was found dead of an overdose. This films definitely harkens back to the old fifties films of yore, bringing back memories of "The Green Slime". It was also released by basement-bargain company Allied Artists.

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• 1960s
• sci-fi
• B-Movie
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• Allied
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• exploitation.

[eileenuleen]

I was a kid when I saw this movie. Scared the crap out of me. I blame this movie for turning me into a Stephen King Constant Reader!

[CROSEN60]

High Standard Model 10 shotgun in action

[akitaman101]

the open helmets are so because they didnt want to spend any time/$ in a studio dubbing in the dialogue...cheapies like this movie (which i LOVE, along with the ed wood catalogue etc) made their money in overseas markets where, back then, the audience was less sophisticated and liked anything with lots of action and goodlooking actors...this explains the astonishing success of the johnny depp "pirates" dreck raking in the billions, so maybe things havent changed so much after all...

[only257]

cheesy seen this on megavideo a couple of weeks ago

[jeffyoung60]

@Mathadar I don't question anyone's replies here. You're all correct. I'm just saying that there existed an enduring myth, mostly wishful science fiction hoping, that Mars would have some atmosphere. To many people, having an atmosphere might mean being able to breathe on a distant planet, or an atmosphere in sufficient means to allow for thinner, simpler, morre comfortable spacesuits. By the time of the movie, I think the scientists were aware but the Martian atmosphere myth persisted.

[Mathadar]

@jeffyoung60 nice try jeff, but even then there was already space suits designed for landing on another planet. The ones we saw in 1969 for the moon mission were already being tested by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, as well as their backup crew James Lovell, William Anders and Fred Haise. Lovell and Haise of course would end up on the ill fated Appolo 13. Even if the atmosphere was as such you could have the helmet on, if you turned your head... bye air.

[qed100]

@jeffyoung60 Astronomers were measuring the Martian barometric pressure as far back as close to a century ago. The figure never came close to being survivable without a closed life support system. Wearing a helmet with a big hole in it would be like having a big gash in your carotid artery: You couldn't feed air fast enough. And which First Mars probe are you talking about? There were several probes before 1977.

[jeffyoung60]

Everyone ridicules the open-bottomed space helmets. However, back in 1968, scientists theorized that Mars might possess a very, very thin, breathable atmosphere, but just barely dense enough so that space helmets did not need to be hermetically sealed. Naturally this turned out to be wishful theorizing after the first Mars Probe in 1977 revealed the carbon dioxide atmosphere was far too thin and toxic. Space suits would have to be sealed and pressurized after all.

[7DARKHELLS]

Notice their space helmets are open on the bottom.

[wog222]

oh I wish I had a DVD copy of this - anyone selling?