Blu-ray, DVD Release: Flight To Mars

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Laurence
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Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: July 20, 2021
Price: DVD $13.99, Blu-ray $17.99
Studio: Cinedigm/The Film Detective

From legendary producer Walter Mirisch come 1951’s Flight to Mars, a stirring adventure from the dawn of the 1950s science fiction boom.

Starring Marguerite Chapman and Cameron Mitchell, filmed in gorgeous Cinecolor with costumes that are out of this world, Flight to Mars emerged from tiny Monogram Pictures like a rocket. Despite coming from one of Hollywood’s smallest Poverty Row studios, it was praised in its time as ”convincingly told and absorbing.” (The Los Angeles Times)

Five Earthlings land on Mars and are greeted by a team of friendly inhabitants. In time, the Earthlings learn that the genial welcoming party secretly covets their ship. Fearing they have depleted the key mineral used to power their life-support systems, the Martians are determined to get off their dying planet by any means necessary. Not only do the Martians intend to leave the stranded crew behind to die, but they also plan to invade and conquer Earth. Can the space travelers outsmart these diabolical Martians? All seems lost until a female Martian scientist offers to help. Suddenly the group from Earth has a fighting chance!

SPECIAL FEATURES:

  Audio Commentary by author/film historian Justin Humphreys
  Walter Mirisch: From Bomba to Body Snatchers – A new documentary short from Ballyhoo Motion Pictures
  Interstellar Travelogues: Cinema’s First Space Race – A new documentary short with celebrated science fiction artist/historian Vincent Di Fate from Ballyhoo Motion Pictures|
  Full color insert booklet with an essay by Don Stradley

Buy or Rent Flight To Mars

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About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.