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(aka "Miracle from Mars" or "Endstation Mars")
Directed by Harry Horner
USA 1952
It's global chaos when an American scientist (Peter Graves) makes radio contact with Mars, receiving messages of an ideal life on the fertile and energy efficient planet. But when the messages inexplicably take on a more religious tone, a question arises that threatens to cause even more turmoil: did the messages come from Mars...or is there an imposter? Also stars Andrea King and Herbert Berghof. *** An amazing cold-war artifact from 1952. Decoded messages reveal Mars to be the power base of an interplanetary religious revival, prompting the godless Russkies to shape up tout de suite. Harry Horner directed, from a dumbfounding script by Anthony Veiller and John L. Balderston, author of the 1920s stage version of Dracula. With Herbert Berghof, Andrea King, Marvin Miller, and, of course, Peter Graves. Excerpt from Dave Kehr's review at The Chicago Reader located HERE *** A husband-and-wife scientist team (Peter Graves, Andrea King) are experimenting with a "hydrogen tube" invention (which he got from a missing German scientist, lost in the collapse of the Reich), when they get signals back from what appears to be Mars. The culture-shock of that event is serious enough, and the couple and their family are suddenly thrust into the spotlight. But then they begin to translate the increasingly complex messages (which started out as mathematical equations) that they receive back, and find that Mars is a perfect world, a true Utopia, and that the messages are quoting Scripture -- and the inevitable conclusion is that God is speaking from Mars. Soon a religious revival starts to spread across the globe. What they don't realize is that the messages are a very calculated fraud, being engineered by a Communist operative (Marvin Miller) and carried out by the scientist (Herbert Berghof) who invented the hydrogen tube, and who now has an even more sinister agenda of his own. |
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Theatrical Release: May 15th, 1952
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Runtime | 1:27:06.220 | |
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Release Information: Studio: Allied Vaughn (MGM)
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is fairly passive with a lot of laboratory and observatory dialogue.
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Harry Horner's Red Planet Mars
is one of the most bizarre of the 50s sci-fi genre - if it
can be considered part of it at all. It is a very odd Cold War artifact
that fuses theological ideas about a Martian supreme being and the evils
of Communism. No creatures, rockets, space travel, ray guns - just a
worldwide religious unification - once we establish communication with
aliens. I prefer this era's sci-fi to be more effect-laden and less
cerebral, although I admit to being fascinated every time I see it. Can
the "Red" in "Red Planet..." relate to the commies? The bare-bones Allied Vaughn (MGM) Blu-ray
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