Man99204 I am a fan of the early 1950s Sci-Fi Movies. This film was substantially better than I thought it would be.If it seems like you have seen this movie before - perhaps you already have. Many of the props were recycled from other Sci Fi Movies. The Ship interior is from "Rocketship XM", The Martian suits are from "Destination Moon".What impacted me most about this movie were the Martian Fashions. The women of Mars were wearing miniskirts in 1951!This is obviously an extremely low budget movie which was shot very quickly. It does however have a certain charm which you never find in the modern gazillion dollar Sci Fi movies.

bayardhiler When I was a kid, my sister used to work at little video store, and sometimes, there were old copies of videos lying around that the store would just give out. One of those films that my sister got, was "Flight to Mars" (1951), a movie that I had never heard of. Since I was big into sci-fi movies, I gave it a chance and was pleasantly surprised. The movie is about four people, three scientists and one journalist, who journey to Mars, not knowing what they will find or whether they will find their way home again. On their way to Mars, our heroes encounter a meteor storm, and lose all contact with Earth, their only option is to keep going. When they get to Mars, they find that there exists a race of fellow human beings who survive underground. At first, everything seems utopia, but, as we soon learn, the martians are running out of resources on their planet and Earth starts to look pretty good. Luckily, not all the martians are on board with the idea of conquering Earth, including a beautiful, short-skirt, wearing martian woman named Alita, who decide to help the Earth people. This movie was filmed on a very low budget and in only five days. Never the less, the movie looks fantastic in Technicolor, with the well done production design. And being at just 70 Min's, you have yourself a nice, little space adventure. Check it out. 8 out of 10.

drystyx This is a good example, a basic example, of what an Outer Space film should be. It was made during the greatest period of movie making, the Fifties.We have the theme of an isolated group, which is easy to do when you're speaking about a space ship crew. They visit Mars. We can just interject any far off planet or place. The story is what is important.And that's what makes these films superior to the later ones. They told stories. We had basic sets, and actually better effects. Why? Because we weren't inundated with a load of crap that only the biggest dork could care about. We got the story, and that's what the audience wants to see in a movie.If the director wants to make a social or political statement, he does it with the story and characters, as he does here. No preaching, no sermons, no contrivance, just a story.It is a basic story, and it is entertaining. We get camera shots that look good, and we are diverted just enough from place to place to keep it interesting.Modern directors are only now realizing how pathetic the garbage of the late sixties and the seventies were. Few films from that era will be salvaged a few centuries from now.Meanwhile, this basic yarn, with just enough subplots to carry it, will still be enjoyed. What is fascinating is how these "fifties flicks" actually come across more credible than the later ones that strive for credibility. The story was natural. No one cares if the costumes are too clean and sets too clear to be realistic. They have to tell the story first, so visibility to the spectator comes first. Meanwhile, we get what are actually more believable actions, reactions, and motivations in films like this than in modern science fiction. We aren't confused. We see what's going on, and the movie is made for us, with the effort made by the film maker, instead of vice versa, because let me tell those self righteous morons something: most of us aren't going to strain ourselves for your benefit. That's why so many people prefer to watch films like this.

BaronBl00d Cheaply-made, poorly acted, and unimaginatively directed, Flight to Mars still is entertaining despite what its has going against it. A flight to Mars is planned with five people(three older gentleman, Cameron Mitchell as a newspaperman, and one female scientist/obvious love interest)"manning' the ship. The spaceship gets there and finds that very human-like Martians live there and have technological advances that would make Earth blush. But all is not rosy in the subterranean cities of the Martians(here shown as some caves and a few rooms). The Martians are a dying planet and one faction wants the Earthlings to fix the ship only to take it away at the last moment and then mobilize for an attack on Earth and another faction wants to talk peace and see if they cannot persuade Earth to give them living space. The special effects here are pretty lame even for 50's sci-fi standards complete with slow-moving rocket ship, pastel/neon alien garb where the women wear shorts that would make many blush(except the men of course), and little less offered. Cameron Mitchell is the journalist and is affable if nothing else. Marguerite Chapman is beautiful in very short shorts but adds little acting range. The rest of the cast is filled with some older sci-fi veterans like Arthur Franz and Morris Ankrum doing serviceable jobs. This isn't a premiere sci-fi film from the Golden Age by any standard, but it is very watchable and zips by at fast pace.