Red Planet Mars

This imaginative effort lacks an adept knowledge of the language of film. A McCarthy era anti-communist, pro-Christianity picture, it is overburdened with political and religious messages. The result is an incoherent, though fairly interesting, jumble of a picture. Scientist Graves locates an instrument that receives transmissions from Mars, setting off widespread pandemonium on Earth. A revolution is staged by elderly Russian peasants, who overthrow the Soviet government and replace it with a religious monarchy. Then ex-Nazi Berghof admits to sending the messages himself, determined to rid the world of capitalism. While Berghof and Graves argue, more messages are ...