Robinson Crusoe on Mars: Life on Mars
By September 18, 2007
In my dreams, Mars keeps changing: gone are the verdant Barsoomian fields explored by John Carter and Princess Dejah Thoris in Edgar Rice Burroughs’s novels; Read more »
SYNOPSIS: Special-effects wunderkind and genre master Byron Haskin (The War of the Worlds, The Outer Limits) won a place in the hearts of fantasy-film lovers everywhere with this gorgeously designed journey into the unknown. When his spaceship crash-lands on the barren wastelands of Mars, U.S. astronaut Commander “Kit” Draper (Paul Mantee) must fight for survival, with a pet monkey seemingly his only companion. But is he alone? Shot in vast Techniscope and blazing Technicolor, Robinson Crusoe on Mars is an imaginative and beloved techni-marvel of classic science fiction.
| Commander Christopher "Kit" Draper | Paul Mantee |
| Friday | Victor Lundin |
| Colonel Dan McReady | Adam West |
| Barney, the Woolly Monkey | Mona |
| Director | Byron Haskin |
| Screenplay | Ib Melchior and John Higgins |
| Based on a story by | Daniel Defoe |
| Producer | Aubrey Schenck |
| Executive producer | Edwin F. Zabel |
| Director of photography | Winton C. Hoch |
| Art direction | Hal Pereira and Arthur Lonergan |
| Production design | Al Nozaki |
| Assistant directors | Robert Goodstein and Arthur Jacobson |
| Makeup supervision | Wally Westmore |
| Makeup artist | Bud Bashaw Jr. |
| Technical advisor | Edward V. Ashburn |
| Editing | Terry Morse |
| Process photography | Faciot Edouart |
| Special effects by | Butler-Glouner, Inc. and Lawrence W. Butler |
| Sound recording by | Harold Lewis and John Wilkinson |
| Music | Van Cleave |
By September 18, 2007
In my dreams, Mars keeps changing: gone are the verdant Barsoomian fields explored by John Carter and Princess Dejah Thoris in Edgar Rice Burroughs’s novels; Read more »