The Wizard of Mars (1965) | SCI-FI HORROR MOVIE | L. Frank Baum - Armando Busick - David L. Hewitt

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  • Four space travellers encounter a sinister force on Mars that threatens to stifle all life forms within its reach.
    The Wizard of Mars (1965) aka Horrors Of The Planet
    Starring: L. Frank Baum, Armando Busick, David L. Hewitt
    Director: David L. Hewitt
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  • @silvernova354
    @silvernova354 Před 8 měsíci +338

    Amazing that places on Mars have cobwebs, presumably made by spiders. David Bowie was right all along!

    • @erroneous6947
      @erroneous6947 Před 8 měsíci +27

      You mean Ziggy, right?

    • @silvernova354
      @silvernova354 Před 8 měsíci +16

      @@erroneous6947 Yes! - That's what I should have said. 👍

    • @AndyDEFILLIPPO
      @AndyDEFILLIPPO Před 8 měsíci +13

      Dave Bowie and the Spiders From Mars

    • @zzzzzzzzzz995
      @zzzzzzzzzz995 Před 8 měsíci +26

      He'd like to come and meet us, but he thinks he'd blow our minds. 🎵🎶✌️😎👍

    • @silvernova354
      @silvernova354 Před 8 měsíci

      @@zzzzzzzzzz995 😄🚀👍Nice.

  • @jonjgibbs56
    @jonjgibbs56 Před 7 měsíci +131

    A number of the comments here are perhaps expressed by those who simply do not "get It". Understandable for a generation fed on CGI, and special effects rather than a good story, which movies generally today so lack. Indeed! This film is a gem, and just to hear the dialogue by John Carradine is a real treat. Our current influx of science fiction is composed of some pretty amazing special effect, but sadly lack real fleshed out characters and gifted actors with real acting abilities, and distinctive voices...something the early films, such as this one's era, had an abundance of. It take more than just the dreariness of constant explosions, action characters battling one another, and predictable story lines to make science fiction an art form worth preserving. These older films, and TV series of that time, need to be preserved, not just for the sake of entertainment, but to bring back the atmosphere, and sense of wonder that science fiction was meant to be, and to simply show what makes the films, and TV programmes of this era rare and unique. Thank you for bringing The Wizard of Mars back to those who can appreciate it!

    • @Douglas-nj5cr
      @Douglas-nj5cr Před 4 měsíci +5

      My sentiments exactly

    • @glenjennett
      @glenjennett Před 4 měsíci +9

      I know what you mean and I sympathize, but you have to admit that this movie is a bit more cheesy than others that have been put out at the time or even previous to this one. This movie came out in 1965 and I've seen movies from the 40s and 50s that had better effects and storylines than this one. That's not to say this is a bad movie, just that it could have been made better with the technology in filmmaking they already had when it was made. One example I noticed was their viewscreens look like just any special effect they could find to paste together that didn't really mean anything or look like anything it was meant to depict. It's a patchwork job, but I don't let that stop me from enjoying the movie anyway for the story, which itself was missing some context. It's not a bad movie, but could have been made better, that's all.

    • @albertrandall2271
      @albertrandall2271 Před 4 měsíci +5

      I agree with what you said 100%​@@glenjennett

    • @albertrandall2271
      @albertrandall2271 Před 4 měsíci +3

      No academy awards here. 🎥🍿😱

    • @KStew9010
      @KStew9010 Před 4 měsíci +2

      Well said and I'm saving this ✔️

  • @Lethgar_Smith
    @Lethgar_Smith Před 8 měsíci +87

    This film was produced on a budget of $35,000.00
    The same year Irwin Allen produced the original pilot for Lost in Space, No Place to Hide, for $600,000.00
    The most expensive TV pilot ever made up to that time.

    • @stutzbearcat5624
      @stutzbearcat5624 Před 8 měsíci +21

      What they do with the other $30,000?

    • @MedicatedOMO
      @MedicatedOMO Před 8 měsíci +8

      @@stutzbearcat5624 LOL

    • @LannieLord
      @LannieLord Před 8 měsíci

      LOL. Actually - the space ship and the ROBOT were pretty damn good looking ! I wanted my own room on the lower level. @@stutzbearcat5624

    • @Jeffrey314159
      @Jeffrey314159 Před 8 měsíci +5

      I heard the 1st pilot episode for star trek the cage was made for $600,000

    • @JJONNYREPP
      @JJONNYREPP Před 7 měsíci +2

      The Wizard of Mars (1965) | SCI-FI HORROR MOVIE | L. Frank Baum - Armando Busick - David L. Hewitt 0900am 18.10.23 and we assume irwin allen is kindda rough and ready and the acme of down at heel presentations.... maybe he just tried to make his work seem that way - at a price? shame. i have lost some of my love for irwin allen presentations. the remake of Poseidon Adventure wasn't half bad, though... i'm taking a break from job search. i'm gonna watch this whilst my bread dough proves...

  • @freedomfirst5557
    @freedomfirst5557 Před měsícem +5

    The older I get, the more I appreciate the classics like this. The innocence was level 11.

  • @josepherhardt164
    @josepherhardt164 Před 8 měsíci +109

    Loved how the spacecraft had seats with no cushions and no safety belts, but the ship had artificial gravity.

    • @joanfrellburg4901
      @joanfrellburg4901 Před 8 měsíci +17

      Two years later they made seat belts, padded dashes, mandatory in all space craft.

    • @josepherhardt164
      @josepherhardt164 Před 8 měsíci +7

      @@joanfrellburg4901 As a direct result of this film! ;)

    • @russell5078084
      @russell5078084 Před 8 měsíci +2

      And no windows.

    • @joanfrellburg4901
      @joanfrellburg4901 Před 8 měsíci +2

      @@josepherhardt164 Yes the only film made that year, in the one studio Hollywood had at the time. :-)

    • @josepherhardt164
      @josepherhardt164 Před 8 měsíci

      @@joanfrellburg4901 Possibly so. BTW, are you familiar with _The Angry Red Planet_ ? Another true low-budget but watchable Mars exploration film. From the 'pedia: "reportedly had an initial production budget of only $200,000 and was given just nine days to film ..."
      Of course, NOTHING comes close to the ultra-low-budget _Teenagers from Outer Space_ , which is also actually watchable, despite its $14,000 budget (also released in 1959, like TARP).

  • @grahvis
    @grahvis Před 8 měsíci +68

    How to turn a ten-minute story into a 77-minute film. Make the "actors" do a lot of walking.

    • @paulcoy9060
      @paulcoy9060 Před 8 měsíci +7

      "Walking!"
      "Rock climbing!"
      "Deep Hurting!"

    • @ian_b
      @ian_b Před 8 měsíci +13

      A strategy later brought to its peak by The Walking Dead.

    • @protorhinocerator142
      @protorhinocerator142 Před 7 měsíci +2

      I remember this movie from when I was young. It was one of those Sunday matinee things on TV.
      I thought there was more to it than John Carradine's speech. Really there's not.
      He makes a speech, they reset the clock, the place collapses.
      I had forgotten that they all got time-teleported back to their ship.

    • @nedludd7622
      @nedludd7622 Před 7 měsíci +3

      ​@@ian_bThe worst tv series ever.

    • @graemesmith6721
      @graemesmith6721 Před 6 měsíci +1

      Low-budget filmmaking 101. If you haven't got money to build sets, film your actors walking through a forest or desert.

  • @IanM-id8or
    @IanM-id8or Před 8 měsíci +91

    Literally laughed out loud when they suggested keeping their suits at the same pressure as the Martian atmosphere. They'd be dead in seconds - had visions of Arnold Schwarzenneger in Total Recall

    • @luthermcgee3767
      @luthermcgee3767 Před 8 měsíci +7

      Agreed. The atmospheric pressure on Mars is 6 milibars compared to earth's AP being 600 milibars.

    • @charlesyoung7436
      @charlesyoung7436 Před 8 měsíci +6

      At least they were able to dodge the Spaceballs before landing. BTW, there are outside scenes where the colors are just like those in photos taken by the Perseverance rover. Other films went with only red, but this one adds the grayish blue. I also heard recycled "tonalities" from "Forbidden Planet" when they meet the alien who resembles a "Star Trek" Ferengi.

    • @JJONNYREPP
      @JJONNYREPP Před 7 měsíci +4

      The Wizard of Mars (1965) | SCI-FI HORROR MOVIE | L. Frank Baum - Armando Busick - David L. Hewitt 0854am 18.10.23 literally laughed out loud when it became apparent that the wizard of oz guy helped create the wizard of mars skit... well, almost laughed out loud... ummmmm.... it's garbage day today. is this gonna be quite telling in the cinema stakes?

    • @telx2010
      @telx2010 Před 7 měsíci +1

      @@luthermcgee3767 So your told.

    • @luthermcgee3767
      @luthermcgee3767 Před 7 měsíci +1

      @@telx2010 , SO YOURE TOLD!

  • @OdeeOz
    @OdeeOz Před 8 měsíci +41

    Gosh how I miss those great days, and B-Movies that entertained, excited, and left us with a feeling of Hope at the end. 👍👍 5🌟

    • @HC-cb4yp
      @HC-cb4yp Před 7 měsíci

      You mean hope FOR "The End."

    • @OdeeOz
      @OdeeOz Před 7 měsíci

      No, I meant what I wrote. You're taking it out of context @@HC-cb4yp

    • @rogerrendzak8055
      @rogerrendzak8055 Před 6 měsíci +2

      Unlike today's, US politics😒!!!

    • @rafaelramirez1507
      @rafaelramirez1507 Před 4 měsíci +1

      I agree 👍👍

    • @garryferrington811
      @garryferrington811 Před 3 měsíci

      This didn't make it to "B" movie. 😬

  • @obeelektro3668
    @obeelektro3668 Před 8 měsíci +53

    Shout out to FILMIX! Thank you for uploading this gem of a classic. I am a great fan of Sci Fi. and never saw this movie in its entirety. I just saw some excerpts from the final scenes in the corridors. For 1965 the Spaceship interior designs, exterior shots of space with the ships engine active with fire, the space suit designs the environments the hero go thorough are really on the very high quality level. Also the sound effects used here are from great Sci-Fi classics like Forbidden Planet with Leslie Nilson, Star Trek with William Shattner. This movie deserves to be restored for posterity of movie history and how uniquely Sci-Fi ideas were perceived at that time. A lot of the comments under neath are funny and I can get why for someone who does not understand and get this movie, especially the younger generations. If they only knew how crappy garbage of majority of the movies are today. Again thank you for this rare and unique movie that transcends viewers like me into an imaginary world away from today's insanity. Much better than drugs that eventually destroy your life. Cheers.

    • @user-jr8vh7vc8m
      @user-jr8vh7vc8m Před 8 měsíci

      Почему не полетели на Марс?

    • @ScottLSimon
      @ScottLSimon Před 8 měsíci +2

      Really? I think it is not really that good. As pointed out in another comment "2001" by Kubrick is around the same time. The comparison is pretty damning.

    • @user-jr8vh7vc8m
      @user-jr8vh7vc8m Před 8 měsíci

      @@ScottLSimon прогресс закончился в 1969 году!

    • @hydrolito
      @hydrolito Před 8 měsíci +6

      1965 move was made before Star Trek which was on TV in 1966.

    • @henrifischer1119
      @henrifischer1119 Před 8 měsíci +2

      don't look at how crappy other movies are. look at what "we" knew back then. the available technology. no internet. computers? well, kind of. knowledge about Mars? Meh. Life outside our planet? Whatever the imagination could come up with. It's difficult to watch this movie and experience it from a history perspective. But if we try, it makes much more sense.

  • @knowmenomo
    @knowmenomo Před 8 měsíci +52

    As we emerged after the fourth day from the firey depths of Mars we could only guess at how long we had wandered there.!!! Brilliant

  • @michaellehmbeck8671
    @michaellehmbeck8671 Před 8 měsíci +16

    Thank you FILMIX for uploading this fantastic Sci-Fi Horror movie, I really appreciate it!

  • @cswanson4476
    @cswanson4476 Před 8 měsíci +39

    14:48 “…we haven’t seen any signs of life…” Right when they walk past a shrub.

    • @claytonjacobs4098
      @claytonjacobs4098 Před 8 měsíci

      Plants dont count.

    • @thepab3072
      @thepab3072 Před 7 měsíci +5

      Proof that science fiction writers failed science back in highschool 😂

    • @cswanson4476
      @cswanson4476 Před 7 měsíci +5

      @@thepab3072They had to learn in science class that plants are alive? Even someone who fails science knows at least THAT much!

    • @luthermcgee3767
      @luthermcgee3767 Před 7 měsíci +2

      And those serpentine things? They seemed more curious than dangerous.

    • @cswanson4476
      @cswanson4476 Před 7 měsíci +2

      @@luthermcgee3767 The most dangerous creature in that scene was the cretin with a gun, shooting at his own boat.

  • @DataWaveTaGo
    @DataWaveTaGo Před 8 měsíci +15

    On board gravity - the hidden technology that shaves 30% (or more) off every SciFi movie budget.

  • @johnbeardsley3684
    @johnbeardsley3684 Před 8 měsíci +38

    Note the wall-clock in the first minutes - year 1975 landing on Mars.
    Well, that spaceship DID look awfully capable !
    Impressive theramin soudtrack !
    The head Martian is, who else but John Carradine. His monologue is the film's high point.

    • @protorhinocerator142
      @protorhinocerator142 Před 7 měsíci +1

      Pretty much the only point of the whole movie.
      The only "horror" portion was the creepy martian telepath at the entrance to the city.

    • @simonbode7356
      @simonbode7356 Před 7 měsíci

      Clock always at 10 minutes to nine.

    • @Hugh7777
      @Hugh7777 Před 5 měsíci

      That high point is not very high.

    •  Před 3 měsíci

      Monologue went on FAR too long.

  • @Foxonian
    @Foxonian Před 5 měsíci +9

    This movie cries out for the RiffTrax treatment! They used to run this one a lot on my local TV station as an afternoon movie back in the early 70's.

    • @bitinback
      @bitinback Před dnem

      The Mads just did it. Loop up dumbindustries

    • @bitinback
      @bitinback Před dnem

      The Mads just did it. Loop up dumbindustries

  • @billvinson7859
    @billvinson7859 Před 8 měsíci +26

    A classic movie of early science fiction. I love the fact that in the start of the movie they use many photos from the 200 inch Hale Telescope. Now a days these photos can be taken with amateur astrophotographers and look mush better because of updated digital photography. I know because I get better results in my back yard.

    • @AndrewGivens
      @AndrewGivens Před 6 měsíci

      Better shots of *Mars* ?!!
      Wowie..

    •  Před 3 měsíci

      1965 is not early. Sci-Fi movies were made in the 1950s that were far better than this!

  • @sitarnut
    @sitarnut Před 8 měsíci +11

    Love the 60's electronic blips and noises which sound exactly like tuning my Shortwave Receiver back then.

    • @RSF-DiscoveryTime
      @RSF-DiscoveryTime Před 7 měsíci +3

      I'd like to know the source of audio for when 1930s Flash Gordon spaceships are flying because I KNOW I've heard that sound on shortwave.

    • @kynoceph
      @kynoceph Před měsícem

      More than likely, it was a shortwave radio. They also had access to theremins in those days.

  • @james_t_kirk
    @james_t_kirk Před 8 měsíci +42

    I don't know the fate of the three male actors, but the female actress is still alive, as of September, 2023. She is 92 years old.

    • @michaelpessin7233
      @michaelpessin7233 Před 8 měsíci +4

      Cool trivia 😎
      LOL 😆

    • @thereisnospoon277
      @thereisnospoon277 Před 8 měsíci +4

      Are you sure? According to IMDB and Google, Eve Bernhardt passed away in 2014 at age 83.

    • @james_t_kirk
      @james_t_kirk Před 8 měsíci +8

      @@thereisnospoon277 Oh, how embarrassing! You are correct! By way of excuse, I often run a quick background check on such obscure actors as Eve Bernhardt. On occasion my synaptical wires get crossed and....well...I get exposed for the fraud that I am. But seriously, errors like this do happen. My apologies for her dying 9 years earlier than I stated. 😋

    • @normanchodrick2630
      @normanchodrick2630 Před 6 měsíci +2

      While 2014 is correct for the lady's death. Hope she had a good life and, while one usually does not think of it quite like I do, the sooner you die, the sooner you come back. Hope she has a great life next time too.

    • @RockOfLions
      @RockOfLions Před 4 měsíci +1

      Don't feel too bad about the mistake according to this movie Frank Baum either wrote it or starred in it decades after he died.

  • @YAMISOOLD2009
    @YAMISOOLD2009 Před 6 měsíci +9

    I watched this to pass some time but found it very watchable and quite well done for such a limited budget. It generated some eerieness and some tension. Thanks for posting this!

  • @CrudUgly
    @CrudUgly Před 8 měsíci +26

    L. Frank Baum wrote the Wizard of Oz and died in 1919.

    • @laikapupkino1767
      @laikapupkino1767 Před 8 měsíci +15

      This wasn't the beloved turn of the century author L. Frank Baum, but the name that the actor insisted they use, out of embarrassment when he saw the final cut of this film. His real name was Edgar Rice Burroughs.

    • @michaelgautreaux3168
      @michaelgautreaux3168 Před 8 měsíci +2

      @@laikapupkino1767 😆

    • @johnmatthew102
      @johnmatthew102 Před 8 měsíci +4

      I'm glad I scrolled down before making the same point.

    • @austinsandefer649
      @austinsandefer649 Před 8 měsíci +2

      Me too.

    • @tenhirankei
      @tenhirankei Před 4 měsíci +1

      Even so the movie had its nods to the Wizard of Oz. The female character is named Dorothy and they follow a "yellow brick road" of a sort part of the way to their destination.

  • @Nangleator22
    @Nangleator22 Před 8 měsíci +24

    Epic monologue from John Carradine.

    • @Jeffrey314159
      @Jeffrey314159 Před 8 měsíci +2

      Yes very much so! Redeems the whole movie

    • @protorhinocerator142
      @protorhinocerator142 Před 7 měsíci +1

      It's really the only thing of interest about the movie, except maybe the big-eared robot at the entry to the city.
      He was of mild interest as well as mild horror.

  • @akdragosani
    @akdragosani Před 3 měsíci +5

    Good ole Classic Sci-Fi ....⭐️⭐️⭐️

  • @larrydickman6016
    @larrydickman6016 Před 8 měsíci +14

    "We had to go to Mars! We couldn't go to the Moon like everyone else!"

    • @telx2010
      @telx2010 Před 7 měsíci +1

      Nobodies been to the Moon.

    •  Před 3 měsíci

      Awful dialog.

    • @user-gv3jq1nn2d
      @user-gv3jq1nn2d Před 11 dny

      Mars in a one way trip , there is no coming home until a vast leap in technology occurs !

  • @pedroserrano7387
    @pedroserrano7387 Před 8 měsíci +10

    I've trying to find this film for decades. Thanks!

    • @Robert-qm5so
      @Robert-qm5so Před 7 měsíci +1

      "The Human Duplicaters" is pretty good , came out in 1967 I believe 👌

  • @johnkean6852
    @johnkean6852 Před 8 měsíci +17

    SPACE monitor: North, South, East, West :)))

  • @gilraybaker826
    @gilraybaker826 Před 8 měsíci +11

    That sand gets into everything. Those that do hate sand are wise.

  • @raymondwilliams2609
    @raymondwilliams2609 Před 8 měsíci +30

    I've never seen this film before, I thought it was very good for 1965. Thank you so much for the upload. Bless you 🙏🤗❤️🖖✌️

    • @walleytvhd259
      @walleytvhd259 Před 8 měsíci +3

      2001: A Space Odyssey was in production in 1965 and would set a new level of quality for sci-fi films

    • @GilObregon-hj6zh
      @GilObregon-hj6zh Před 8 měsíci +1

      I'm so glad to know that the hair-styles of
      the future will return to the hairdos of the
      square adults of the mid-1960s!! 🥳 😳

    • @JJONNYREPP
      @JJONNYREPP Před 7 měsíci

      The Wizard of Mars (1965) | SCI-FI HORROR MOVIE | L. Frank Baum - Armando Busick - David L. Hewitt 0913am 18.10.23 aspects of this reminded me of the even more cost priced baron prasil - when he was scouting out the moon....

    • @protorhinocerator142
      @protorhinocerator142 Před 7 měsíci +1

      They used to play this movie on TV on Sunday matinees and maybe late night horror shows (like Elvira only with back-then hosts).
      I was looking for this movie forever but couldn't remember the name. Just now tonight I finally got to see it again. It must have been 50 years.

    • @JJONNYREPP
      @JJONNYREPP Před 7 měsíci

      @@protorhinocerator142 Comments on ‘The Wizard of Mars (1965) | SCI-FI HORROR MOVIE | L. Frank Baum - Armando Busick - David L. Hewitt’ 0717am 19.10.23 nice colour scheme with this. not as tacky a movie as most of the genre... even the use of film, i wonder if they cross processed the fil/developer to produce that nice lomo effect....?

  • @fredneecher1746
    @fredneecher1746 Před 8 měsíci +24

    Surprisingly watchable. Thank you. Loved the guy with the big ears!

    • @luthermcgee3767
      @luthermcgee3767 Před 8 měsíci

      The guy with the big ears is what brought me here. I wanted to see the movie again after 50 years to fill in gaps.

    • @protorhinocerator142
      @protorhinocerator142 Před 7 měsíci +1

      @@luthermcgee3767 Same. I remember watching the movie as a child, Sunday afternoon matinee.
      I remembered part of the Wizard's speech, and the big clock thing they had to fix. That's about it.
      I'd forgotten Big Ears. The rest of the movie was entirely boring and forgettable.

    • @luthermcgee3767
      @luthermcgee3767 Před 7 měsíci

      @@protorhinocerator142 , yes, some of it was easy to forget- I had forgotten about the clock thing altogether.

    • @nikosatsaves3141
      @nikosatsaves3141 Před 7 měsíci

      Thats the ship's propeller

    •  Před 3 měsíci

      Watchable so long as you closed your eyes and dozed off.

  • @carlb8378
    @carlb8378 Před 8 měsíci +20

    Stock footage from " War Of The Satellites " produced and directed by the great Rodger Corman .❤😊

    • @jimamizzi1
      @jimamizzi1 Před 8 měsíci

      Same ship and some footage from the doomsday machine

    • @carlb8378
      @carlb8378 Před 8 měsíci

      @@jimamizzi1 I missed that bit, having not seen it. Thanks

    • @Jeffrey314159
      @Jeffrey314159 Před 8 měsíci

      This movie came out in 1965 the doomsday machine was released in 1975

    • @carlb8378
      @carlb8378 Před 8 měsíci

      @@Jeffrey314159 And now I know why I missed that bit.🛸

  • @rce2198
    @rce2198 Před 8 měsíci +6

    I like how their navigation screens are oriented -North,South,East,and West. Once they left the magnetic field of Earth, Those terms would not be used.

    • @gilalvarado9237
      @gilalvarado9237 Před měsícem

      I worked in Hollywood as a title designer, and that image is know as a field chart and it was never intended to be seen on screen. It was used to visualize film elements, titles or subtitles for placement. In the days before computers and the ability to easily overlay images one on top of another, this chart was used to help the director or title designer accurately place the title where they wanted it on the film. They still use them, but now it is all done on computer instead of transparencies.

  • @gern7535
    @gern7535 Před 8 měsíci +29

    Probably the greatest movie ever made.

    • @catchaser52
      @catchaser52 Před 8 měsíci +5

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @JimiHendrix-es4lv
      @JimiHendrix-es4lv Před 8 měsíci +2

      Probably the greatest comment ever made.

    • @paulenzor6993
      @paulenzor6993 Před 8 měsíci

      Undoubtedly TRUE 😁🤣

    • @ZENmud
      @ZENmud Před 8 měsíci +1

      ​@JimiHendrix-es4lv
      Heh heh heh ~ it may be the same dude/account, but I've replied with your words to the statement "gern" offered, on 3 or 4 other films...
      And one of mine received this:
      "Maybe the greatest movie comment reply ever made..."
      🎉😂🎉

    • @gern7535
      @gern7535 Před 8 měsíci

      @@ZENmud It's called 'Sarcasm'.

  • @educatedmanholecoverbyrich8890
    @educatedmanholecoverbyrich8890 Před 8 měsíci +11

    4 days, and nobody too a piss or a dump. Perhaps the studio forgot the toilet rolls and the Mountain Dew?

    • @misterlyle.
      @misterlyle. Před 8 měsíci +3

      Check out the old Flash Gordon serials. Space travel for weeks on end, but no food, no bunks, and never a need to refuel the rockets.

    • @d7angels19
      @d7angels19 Před 3 měsíci

      Wow!! 😲 That's amazing 🤔 How can they hold it that long?? Just blows your mind huh!? 😜

  • @philipnestor5034
    @philipnestor5034 Před 8 měsíci +10

    When they were walking into that cave they should’ve come across the Mars musician playing the vibraphone!😀

    • @navelriver
      @navelriver Před 8 měsíci +1

      Oh he is good! Stalactite Music! Or is it Stalacmite Music?

  • @bunberrier
    @bunberrier Před 8 měsíci +30

    They made this back before acting was invented.

    • @divaden47
      @divaden47 Před 8 měsíci +2

      No, I disagree. The actors are extras from the renowned Plank School of Acting. Fairly expressionless. Just wait for the next cue line. Worked a treat in this ghastly film.

    • @pqrstzxerty1296
      @pqrstzxerty1296 Před 8 měsíci +1

      ​@@divaden47The horror

    • @dwgauntlett
      @dwgauntlett Před 7 měsíci +2

      You guys are confusing my enjoyment of this documentary

    • @protorhinocerator142
      @protorhinocerator142 Před 7 měsíci +2

      John Carradine was good, but he was basically reading a monologue.
      The rest were very forgettable and replaceable. Delete two of the astronauts and the movie hasn't changed.

    • @ghw7192
      @ghw7192 Před 7 měsíci

      "Hey, guys! Ya wanna be in s movie?" The woman is especially bad.

  • @melodiefrances3898
    @melodiefrances3898 Před 8 měsíci +13

    When I see movies this bad I always feel an odd admiration of some kind. Like it takes a certain amount of courage to actually commit to something like this.

    • @briandeeley1599
      @briandeeley1599 Před 8 měsíci

      It had a budget of 33 thousand dollars so I think they did a decent job.

    • @albertduran9270
      @albertduran9270 Před 4 měsíci

      Better than anything Ed Wood would've done.

  • @jeffweber8556
    @jeffweber8556 Před 8 měsíci +10

    We are going to Mars, aren't planning on running into anyone or even landing. However we still packed guns :P

    • @kellyadams3078
      @kellyadams3078 Před 4 měsíci

      And rubber life rafts

    •  Před 3 měsíci

      @@kellyadams3078 And paddles.

    • @SAKtime1
      @SAKtime1 Před 23 dny

      No flame throwers, though, they discovered the need for those in the 80's

  • @anacatarina1388
    @anacatarina1388 Před 3 měsíci +2

    This is the greatest classic sci-fi space movie ever🧑‍🚀👽👏👏👏

    •  Před 3 měsíci

      Said no-one ever.

  • @mauricexanthos3683
    @mauricexanthos3683 Před 8 měsíci +12

    John Carradine. Classy.

  • @ZENmud
    @ZENmud Před 8 měsíci +4

    "Is that Mars, Bruno?"
    "No that's Mars, Candy..."

  • @user-jw7cq6gu6o
    @user-jw7cq6gu6o Před 7 měsíci +8

    It cost $35,000! It is remarkable what they accomplished on such a small budget The canal scenes and the desert under a red sky really look alien. Even the action of the pendulum in the time capturing machine has a spooky appearance. Well done. If I had a criticism, it would be the wooden acting, but what the heck, the actors wouldn't have been paid much on that budget!

    • @silversurfer3202
      @silversurfer3202 Před 6 měsíci

      🤔 You're damned right about their Budget being small...Even for the 1965 economy 😮!!!

    • @theeclectic2919
      @theeclectic2919 Před 6 měsíci

      Most of their cash went to pay for those space suits.

    • @Hugh7777
      @Hugh7777 Před 5 měsíci +1

      @@theeclectic2919 Yes, they were anomalously good. I suspect they were left over from a better movie, such as Destination Moon.

  • @mchrome3366
    @mchrome3366 Před 8 měsíci +7

    I thought I was really on a spaceship orbiting Mars. If this flick wasn’t tacky it wouldn’t be entertaining. The fact that it was before we left Earths orbit makes it educational in that it’s basically what we thought it might be like with 60’s technology being the only limitation of our imaginations. Priceless

    • @jaynelson9617
      @jaynelson9617 Před 8 měsíci

      ditto

    • @briandeeley1599
      @briandeeley1599 Před 8 měsíci

      Tacky is a poor choice of words, the budget was 33 thousand dollars. except for the cave and volcanic activity the back drop is very similar to what mars actually looks like.

  • @walterfechter8080
    @walterfechter8080 Před 8 měsíci +6

    52:55 -- That alien creature was also used in "Space Probe Taurus." He reminds me of a guy from my high school days.

  • @195511SM
    @195511SM Před 4 měsíci +3

    Looks like something I 'D HAVE PAID TO SEE IN A THEATER BACK WHEN I was 10. Not since Sata Clause Conquers The Martians have I BEEN SO ENTHRALLED..And that musical score...

  • @russellspunaugle7231
    @russellspunaugle7231 Před 8 měsíci +2

    Never get lost with a navigation graticule with n,e,s,w on it.

  • @scamchan
    @scamchan Před 8 měsíci +4

    Got to love how a gun is the answer to problems

  • @Larkinchance
    @Larkinchance Před 8 měsíci +3

    "We haven't seen any signs of life."
    As they pass by tumble weeds and scrub brush...

  • @Paul-gq2bn
    @Paul-gq2bn Před 8 měsíci +5

    Back in the 1970s, WBFF in Baltimore showed certain ultra crappy cheap sci Fi flicks not made by American International or Universal which other local uhf stations didn't This and "Creation of the Humanoids" were among them. I wonder if the films were made available for airing by the station at a cheaper deal than the more well known and popular films made by the major studios. The station's budget might have made it necessary. This flick is lousy as hell yet enjoyable for some odd reason I can't put my finger on! Just goes to show ya never know, in show biz. Thanks for this!

  • @spectralplane1032
    @spectralplane1032 Před 13 dny +1

    I love the fact that they had the forethought, on a trip to Mars, to take along two inflatable rafts, paddles, and a rifle. That was what was missing on the Moon landings: a rifle.

  • @geraldqueener7861
    @geraldqueener7861 Před 8 měsíci +15

    It was fun to watch and see how science fiction/horror was created and became a genre.

    • @timg6930
      @timg6930 Před 8 měsíci +3

      Go watch Forbidden Planet (1956)

    • @roylcraft
      @roylcraft Před 8 měsíci

      @@timg6930 ...fancy!

    • @charlesyoung7436
      @charlesyoung7436 Před 8 měsíci +1

      That's still my vote for best SF film, ever. That's because it was based on Shakespeare's "The Tempest," it introduced the first robot with a real personality, and it directly inspired "Star Trek."@@timg6930

    • @Jeff-os9lt
      @Jeff-os9lt Před 7 měsíci +1

      The horror and sci if genre was well established by 1965!

  • @sodiorne2
    @sodiorne2 Před 8 měsíci +7

    A Pretty Great Movie!! Can't believe I haven't seen it before.

    • @Robert-qm5so
      @Robert-qm5so Před 7 měsíci +1

      I'm getting into these thanks to my grandfather and my parents, their gone but I keep their memory alive watching flicks like these , so much fun watching movies that have never been seen before , I'm only 31 so you can say I was born too late 😞

  • @james5460
    @james5460 Před 7 měsíci +2

    The Time Travelers of the previous year was actually very good, that's the one to watch.

  • @edgarjcormier6150
    @edgarjcormier6150 Před 5 měsíci +1

    It can NEVER be a good SCI-FI movie without a Theremin in the background!

  • @jimboAndersenReviews
    @jimboAndersenReviews Před 8 měsíci +5

    I am pleasantly surprised by this one.

    • @Robert-qm5so
      @Robert-qm5so Před 7 měsíci

      Try the 1967 horror film "The Vulture" , pretty cool 👍

  • @iarde3422
    @iarde3422 Před 6 měsíci +2

    Killing those innocent worms, while they were just being curious about new arrivals

  • @woodyforest2100
    @woodyforest2100 Před 7 měsíci +4

    Sooo… This is The Wizard of Mars, or… Horrors of the Red Planet?? 😂 Love it!

  • @stephenmcdonald664
    @stephenmcdonald664 Před 8 měsíci +2

    Thanks for posting this. Fun to watch.

  • @theeclectic2919
    @theeclectic2919 Před 6 měsíci +3

    Funny how they have periscopes like a submarine. Hilarious!

    • @d7angels19
      @d7angels19 Před 3 měsíci

      Because it's in "The Script"?.. 🤨

    • @theeclectic2919
      @theeclectic2919 Před 3 měsíci

      @@d7angels19 So, you're saying it's a comedy?

  • @SumNumber
    @SumNumber Před 7 měsíci +1

    Someone found a deal at a yard sale for some used race car helmets and thought , " Hmmm...A space movie ? " . :O)

  • @SADPAIN2271
    @SADPAIN2271 Před 14 dny +1

    fact- someone in the movie industry bentover and was spurred by a martian and now this movie was inspired such genius

  • @michaelmayo
    @michaelmayo Před 8 měsíci +11

    I wish I knew more about this film. It sucks but it's got some interesting things. Those are real military pressure suits - they're too well designed and equiped and this thing didn't have the budget to make anything like them. The locations were interesting too. It looked like they found a series of springs with dried minerals, and the cave was real too, so where the hell did they shoot this, and how did they get those suits?

    • @nathans.3751
      @nathans.3751 Před 8 měsíci +4

      I believe they filmed those scenes around Trona California and Searles lake. Absolutely amazing place. I was lucky to visit it for a mineral collecting trip.

    • @michaelshultz2540
      @michaelshultz2540 Před 8 měsíci +2

      The pressure suits could have been aquired from Holloman Air Force Base which is very near Carlsbad caverns. Just a thought. I been in Carlsbad caverns over a dozen times and that cave scene looks very familiar. Only lit with standard lighting instead of the colored lighting thats actually in the caverns to make them look pretty for the tourists. Also white sands is next to Holloman afb.

    • @Jeffrey314159
      @Jeffrey314159 Před 8 měsíci +1

      I think they filmed the desert scenes in Nevada I'm not sure. The special effects and imagery in this movie were made possible by the newly developed optical printer which the director made use of

    • @briandeeley1599
      @briandeeley1599 Před 8 měsíci +1

      considering the 33 ,000.00 dollar budget I think they were pretty creative.

    • @JJONNYREPP
      @JJONNYREPP Před 7 měsíci

      The Wizard of Mars (1965) | SCI-FI HORROR MOVIE | L. Frank Baum - Armando Busick - David L. Hewitt it's world okapi day so... akin to never bother to double back when yer stranded on mars (or the moon, for that matter) don't bother to take a second glance at... the okapi. who is ok as he is or was.... seesm they're destroying him.... ummmmmmmmmmmm... what to do - go listen to o sees or thee o sees or watch the dorm that dripped blood? that's a toughie.

  • @chirelle.alanalooney8609
    @chirelle.alanalooney8609 Před 8 měsíci +2

    Ha ha ha ha ha, I'm loving it. Their helmits dont have any glass face masks to protect them, or give them any oxygen support.

  • @Jeffrey314159
    @Jeffrey314159 Před 8 měsíci +3

    The best part of this movie is in it's last 20 minutes, in the 3rd act where it becomes good science fiction

    • @briandeeley1599
      @briandeeley1599 Před 8 měsíci +2

      LOL! I was thinking the same thing! great story with no budget.

    • @JJONNYREPP
      @JJONNYREPP Před 7 měsíci

      The Wizard of Mars (1965) | SCI-FI HORROR MOVIE | L. Frank Baum - Armando Busick - David L. Hewitt. 18.10.23. If they ever try to blame others for the films I watch nor whinge about the choice of cinematic genre or suggest I'm being forced to watch these films. You can tell them to : Fuck off.

  • @webwillie1
    @webwillie1 Před 7 měsíci +3

    The martian cobwebs kill me.

    • @randquadrozzi1280
      @randquadrozzi1280 Před 2 měsíci

      You never heard of Ziggy stardust and the spiders from Mars.

  • @frankmccann29
    @frankmccann29 Před 8 měsíci +3

    Thank you so much for the movie

  • @davidfisher9026
    @davidfisher9026 Před 5 měsíci +1

    One thing in common with all these early science fiction movies is a really sudden ending !

  • @louisborselio8608
    @louisborselio8608 Před 8 měsíci +9

    Herman Munster's boss Mr. Gateman is the Wizard of Mars.

    • @darrelljustice6105
      @darrelljustice6105 Před 8 měsíci +2

      Classic horror film actor John Carradine always gave a wonderful performance.

  • @joanfrellburg4901
    @joanfrellburg4901 Před 8 měsíci +2

    Damn this film for convincing people that the gravity, and temperature are the same as Earths.

  • @jamesbugbee9026
    @jamesbugbee9026 Před 8 měsíci +6

    MST3000, here we come

    • @David-gh6vp
      @David-gh6vp Před 3 dny

      the MST crew [whoever they maybe these days] will have some fun with this one.

  • @msparr01
    @msparr01 Před 8 měsíci +3

    Mayday, mayday, can you build another ship, train a crew and come help us out maybe in the next couple of years or so? At least it's mildly amusing so far.

  • @jimharrison748
    @jimharrison748 Před měsícem

    I love these treasures of science fiction past. Yes we can go on about tech, walking through miles of sand while worried about running out of oxygen and so many other things but it's a 1965 B movie, not a documentary! To be enjoyed as such. I watch it with the same kind of thoughts the Rifftrax guys would narrate, never stops giving!

  • @josephking5411
    @josephking5411 Před 8 měsíci +5

    I liked the characters in this, except for the trigger-happy ways of the young man. It's a bit slow, but I like the ending. Shout out to John Carradine.

  • @iteachtime
    @iteachtime Před 7 měsíci

    As a watchmaking instructor, imagine my delight at the ending! Thank you Filmix!!!

    • @iteachtime
      @iteachtime Před 7 měsíci +1

      That’s funny!

    •  Před 3 měsíci +1

      That was the best part of the movie.

  • @alastairfraser8177
    @alastairfraser8177 Před 8 měsíci +8

    First thing you do when encountering an alien lifeforms is to shoot them

  • @lilblackduc7312
    @lilblackduc7312 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Thank you!

  • @GregCorrell
    @GregCorrell Před 8 měsíci +6

    What is north in space?

  • @johnshields6852
    @johnshields6852 Před 8 měsíci +5

    I was 5 back then, Mars was still unknown, many people really thought there were aliens from Mars, even the moon was mysterious back then, at least the darkside.

    • @silverstem2964
      @silverstem2964 Před 8 měsíci +1

      Actually, it's all dark.
      --Pink Floyd

    • @user-uk8lf3bn4y
      @user-uk8lf3bn4y Před 8 měsíci +1

      I presume that you know that there is no dark side, just a side that we never see from Earth.

    • @albertduran9270
      @albertduran9270 Před 4 měsíci

      ​@@user-uk8lf3bn4yI think that's what is meant, dark from our perspective.

  • @mjrchapin
    @mjrchapin Před 7 měsíci +1

    Definitely OLD SCHOOL classic Sci Fi!

  • @jeromeprsibanez8131
    @jeromeprsibanez8131 Před 8 měsíci +5

    The clock was most definitely not a Timex clock😢 took a lickin and quit tickin!! 😂😂😂😂😊😊😊

  • @tonysantiago255
    @tonysantiago255 Před 8 měsíci +19

    This is the kind of movie that you took a girl to a drive-in to see and watched from the back seat. The only way to view this thing. With your eyes shut.

    • @klowen7778
      @klowen7778 Před 8 měsíci +3

      Yep, and we forget that movies like this were actually kinda 'typical' of the whole Drive-In 'culture' back then.

    • @thereisnospoon277
      @thereisnospoon277 Před 8 měsíci

      Yer, you mean both your eyes shut followed by heavy necking and heavy breathing.

    • @morrismonet3554
      @morrismonet3554 Před 3 měsíci

      Try that in the back seat of the government mandated crap they call cars now. Better stay up front and take a girl that knows how to give a good BJ.

    • @rexfreeman4981
      @rexfreeman4981 Před 19 dny

      @@thereisnospoon277 bet your mom didn't like that

  • @ghw7192
    @ghw7192 Před 7 měsíci +3

    I am 75 and have been a sci fi fan for as far back as I can remember. While the huge budget no expense too high movies can be fantastic to watch, I find that the we ain't got no money, scientifically inaccurate, cheesy props and special effects, and with no name casts ones can be just as entertaining. This is not one of them.

  • @teptime
    @teptime Před 6 měsíci +1

    I love how their periscope views have marked grids with N/S/E/W coordinates. In outer space?

  • @Alan-rh1el
    @Alan-rh1el Před 5 měsíci

    Well that was an interesting watch not really what i expected, and the connection to L F Baum's OZ stories is very teneous if indeed there is a connection. In saying that this was still an enjoyable watch especially when Mr Carradine turned up thank you for posting.

  • @flukedogwalker3016
    @flukedogwalker3016 Před 7 měsíci +2

    This movie made "Attack of the Mushroom People" Oscar Material.

  • @geofromnj7377
    @geofromnj7377 Před 8 měsíci +4

    Unlikely the exhaust from a rocket engine would generate smoke in space.

    • @martinquerre9614
      @martinquerre9614 Před 8 měsíci +3

      Why not? In one episode of Irwin Allen's "Time tunnel" I saw the two main characters of the series landing on the surface of the moon both dressed in zip fastened space suits and witnessing the flaming ruins of a lunar space station that just got blown up by an explosive device 😆😆😅

  • @Skeezer66
    @Skeezer66 Před 12 dny +1

    My main problem with this film is, No Water! If they could have tested the Martian water and had canteens to survive the desert, I can go along with everything else.

  • @dec66.18
    @dec66.18 Před 8 měsíci +1

    "I've never seen anything so beautiful".... cut to some brown rocks.

  • @paulcoy9060
    @paulcoy9060 Před 8 měsíci +2

    13:30 -- 13:34 " ... is there?" This is a terrific line, delivered perfectly, and seems scientifically possible due to atmospheric pressure, but it also sounds like someone suggesting that "reversing the polarity" will work.

    • @protorhinocerator142
      @protorhinocerator142 Před 7 měsíci

      We need to recalibrate the holo-emitters.
      In high school I convinced some girl that if you reverse the polarity on a toaster you can un-burn your bread.
      REALLY?

  • @goopah
    @goopah Před 8 měsíci +1

    1:43 Just wondering how those shock absorbers on the seat-backs are supposed to work. Separate shocks for the actual seat part? Only your back needs absorption? I have so many questions. Earlier I saw a bit of flame and wispy smoke coming from a rocket that looked about as powerful as a candle. Oh, how I love this stuff! These films need to be kept alive!

  • @jozefnovak7750
    @jozefnovak7750 Před 7 měsíci

    Super! Thank you very much!

  • @ThePiratemachine
    @ThePiratemachine Před 8 měsíci

    Pretty good. A bit of Dante's circles they go through or "40 days in the desert" - perhaps a parable but imaginative and I liked it. Not sure how they continued on without a drink of water but it was good. Scriptwriter was good with John Carradine's speech. Thx for posting.

  • @williamscoggin1509
    @williamscoggin1509 Před 7 měsíci +1

    I always like how everyone had a periscope! 😅

  • @charlesedwards9635
    @charlesedwards9635 Před 3 měsíci +1

    AwSoME many thanks for posting
    🖖👽

  • @boudewynwagener7653
    @boudewynwagener7653 Před 8 měsíci +6

    Wow, guy is rowing in side that cave and they not moving one inch. Low budget movies of the time🤦‍♂️. Nice to see the tech at the time.

  • @user-nw2si7hu3u
    @user-nw2si7hu3u Před 6 měsíci +2

    Absolutely terrifying I couldn’t even make it to the end 😂

  • @carlosrivera7351
    @carlosrivera7351 Před 8 měsíci +5

    In 1965 they really believed there was water on Mars?!

    • @josepherhardt164
      @josepherhardt164 Před 8 měsíci +3

      And weather with lightning.

    • @briandeeley1599
      @briandeeley1599 Před 8 měsíci

      Mars does have weather and water. @@josepherhardt164

    • @brilanto
      @brilanto Před 7 měsíci +1

      @@josepherhardt164 ... in space.

  • @jerrymail
    @jerrymail Před 7 měsíci +1

    An expedition on Mars with a rifle... and boats ? 😮

  • @dirkbruere
    @dirkbruere Před 2 měsíci

    Now you know why movies like 2001, Forbidden Planet and Star Wars made such a splash

  • @lorenspiller7096
    @lorenspiller7096 Před 8 měsíci +2

    As bad as it gets, but like a train wreck couldn't stop watching!!!

  • @petelake7373
    @petelake7373 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Who designed the chairs on the spaceship? Imagine your back after six months

  • @Robert-qm5so
    @Robert-qm5so Před 7 měsíci +1

    Great flick 👌 thank you for posting