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Red Planet Mars

Year:

1952

Duration:

87 min

Genres:

Drama | Sci-Fi

IMDB rate:

4.9

Director:

Harry Horner

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1952-05-15

Filming Locations: Motion Picture Center Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Cast

Actor

Character

Peter Graves

Andrea King

Linda Cronyn

Herbert Berghof

Franz Calder

Walter Sande

Admiral Bill Carey

Marvin Miller

Arjenian

Willis Bouchey

President

Morris Ankrum

Secretary of Defense Sparks

Orley Lindgren

Stewart Cronyn

Bayard Veiller

Roger Cronyn

Ben Astar

Russian Commissar (uncredited)

Vince Barnett

Seedy Man Listening to Radio (uncredited)

Robert Carson

President's Aide (uncredited)

James Conaty

Secretary of the Navy (uncredited)

Wade Crosby

Senator from Wheat Belt (uncredited)

Claude Dunkin

Peter Lewis (uncredited)

Charles Evans

Coal Mine Owner (uncredited)

Franklyn Farnum

Senator (uncredited)

Sam Flint

Worried Man at Lincoln Memorial (uncredited)

Sam Harris

Senator (uncredited)

Ed Hinton

Military Man (uncredited)

Tom Keene

Maj. Gen. George Burdette (uncredited)

Bill Kennedy

News Commentator #1 (uncredited)

Colin Kenny

Mine Owner (uncredited)

Henry Kulky

Military Guard (uncredited)

Grace Leonard

Seedy Woman Listening to Radio (uncredited)

Dayton Lummis

Radio Commentator (uncredited)

George Magrill

Pitchman (uncredited)

Lewis Martin

Dr. Mitchell - Astronomer (uncredited)

Frank Mills

Senator (uncredited)

Leo Mostovoy

Foreign Radio Broadcaster (uncredited)

House Peters Jr.

Dr. Boulting - Mitchell's Assistant (uncredited)

Joe Ploski

Extra at Russian Headquarters (uncredited)

Gene Roth

United Mine Workers Chief (uncredited)

Bert Stevens

Officer (uncredited)

Robert Stevenson

Radio Commentator (uncredited)

Brick Sullivan

Planetarium Guard (uncredited)

John Topa

Russian Gen. Borodin (uncredited)

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Trivia

At the end of the film, the President, speaking of the sacrifice by Chris and Linda Cronyn, says "the whole earth is their sepulcher". That phrase appears in the Garden of the Missing at the American Cemetery at Colleville-sur-mer above Omaha Beach in Normandy. In the cemetery the full phrase is "Here are recorded the names of Americans who gave their lives in the service of their country and who sleep in unknown graves. This is their memorial. The whole earth is their sepulcher, comrades in arms whose resting place is known only to God."

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This movie foresaw the flat panel TV at least 40 years before they were commercially available. The scientist husband and wife main characters had what looked like a 40-inch equivalent over their fireplace and were seen watching the news on it in several scenes. It was probably simulated by projecting the picture onto the rear of a glass screen.

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Among the movie cast members are Willis Bouchey and Morris Ankrum who would go on to be longtime judges on the Perry Mason show.

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Goofs

The Russian patrol that arrives to search the peasants' house arrives in a World War II-era American "deuce and a half" (two and half ton truck).

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At about 33:20. the President quotes a familiar poem, "Solution there is none, save in the Golden Rule of Christ alone." He then says, "My father was very fond of Emerson." But the line he quotes is from an anti-slavery poem of John Greenleaf Whittier.

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Linda Cronyn (a scientist) states 'Albert Einstein split the atom'. Albert Einstein had no part in the splitting of the atom. His work predicted what would happen if it was split.

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Quotes

Linda Cronyn: [to Chris] We've lived on the edge of a volcano all our lives. One day it'll boil over.

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Arjenian: [Threateningly to Calder] We don't make investments with no return!

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Dr. Boulting - Mitchell's Assistant: Doyou seriously believe that you've established contact with Mars?

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