The Martian Chronicles (1979)

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Running Time: 120 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 1979

Rating: PG Certificate

Production Country: USA

Earth sends its first manned probe to Mars in 1999, and a jealous Martian murders the two astronauts when his wife has erotic dreams of meeting them.

Members of a subsequent expedition are hypnotized into believing that they have landed in the childhood community of their leader and have been reunited with deceased family and friends, and they are poisoned by the Martians.

Col. John Wilder leads a third expedition and learns that a chicken pox virus brought to Mars by the first two expeditions has almost eradicated the Martian population.

A member of Wilder's team becomes obsessed with protecting Mars from Earthman and murders some of the others in Wilder's party, before Wilder kills him.

Colonists arrive on Mars to settle, among them priests seeking God, and a lone Martian masquerades as the most desired persons of various settlers.

Global war on Earth reduces man's natal planet to radioactive waste, and most of the settlers returned there prior to the holocaust. Wilder struggles to assemble the remaining humans on Mars, who cope with their loneliness in different ways and will not leave their piece of Mars, before Wilder meets a Martian of past or future who tells him the secret of simple Martian life and convinces him to abandon the Earth lifestyle.

Main Cast

Image for Rock HudsonRock HudsonCol. John Wilder
Gayle HunnicuttRuth Wilder
Darren McGavinSam Parkhill
Joyce Van PattenElma Parkhill
Roddy McDowallFather Stone
Michael Anderson Jr.David Lustig
Richard OldfieldYork
Richard HefferConover
John CassadyBriggs
Bernadette PetersGenevieve
Maggie WrightYlla
Anthony Pullen ShawEdward Black
Image for James FaulknerJames FaulknerMr. K
Peter MarinkerMcClure
Christopher ConnellyBen Driscoll
Derek LamdenMartian on Sand Ship
Robert BeattyGeneral Halstead
Barry MorseHathaway
Nicholas HammondCapt. Arthur Black
Nyree Dawn PorterAlice Hathaway
Alison ElliottLavinia Spalding
Wolfgang ReichmannLafe Lustig
Terence LongdonMartian Elder
Bernie CaseyJeff Spender
Jon FinchJesus Christ
Maria SchellAnna Lustig
Image for Fritz WeaverFritz WeaverFather Peregrine
Burnell TuckerBill Wilder

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