The Angry Red Planet

The Angry Red Planet

The Angry Red Planet (also called Invasion of Mars and Journey to Planet Four) is a 1960 science fiction film starring Gerald Mohr and directed by Ib Melchior. Distributed to theaters in late November and December 1959, The Angry Red Planet is listed by some motion-picture references as a 1959 film; by others, such as the American Film Institute and Turner Classic Movies, as a 1960 production. Often such discrepancies are attributable to some references identifying a "late-in-the-year" film like The Angry Red Planet by its release date, while other sources cite the film's official (usually later) copyright date. According to AFI, the copyright date for The Angry Red Planet (No. LP20393) is January 21, 1960. Melchior reportedly had an initial production budget of only $200,000 and was given just nine days to film it. Such financial and time constraints necessitated the use of CineMagic, a film-processing technique that combined hand-drawn animations with live-action footage. The relatively inexpensive process was used for all scenes depicting the surface of Mars. While CineMagic proved unsatisfactory for creating visually believable special effects for The Angry Red Planet, producer Norman Maurer did reuse the process in 1962, although to a lesser extent, in the film comedy The Three Stooges in Orbit.

Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Production: American International Pictures (AIP)
 
IMDB:
5.2
Rotten Tomatoes:
0%
NOT RATED
Year:
1959
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