Director(s)Byron Haskin
Producer(s)Aubrey Schenck
Top GenresAdventure, Drama, Film Adaptation, Science Fiction
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Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964) was a Science Fiction - Adventure Film directed by Byron Haskin and produced by Aubrey Schenck.

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Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)

By Beatrice on Mar 21, 2018 From Flickers in Time

Robinson Crusoe on Mars Directed by Byron Haskin Written by Ib Melchior and John C. Higgins from a novel by Daniel Defoe 1964/USA Aubrey Schenck Productions First viewing/Netflix rental Just what you’d expect from the title and pretty fun to boot. Two astronauts and a woolly monkey are orbi... Read full article


Robinson Crusoe on Mars ( 1964 )

By The Metzinger Sisters on Nov 20, 2015 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers

A lone astronaut pitted against all the odds beyond this earth. In the not too distant future, a two-manned spacecraft, the Mars Gravity Probe 1, nearly avoids a collision with an asteroid on its route to the red planet. The ship cannot hold altitude after altering its trajectory so the crew eject... Read full article


Robinson Crusoe on Mars ( 1964 )

By The Metzinger Sisters on Nov 20, 2015 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers

A lone astronaut pitted against all the odds beyond this earth. In the not too distant future, a two-manned spacecraft, the Mars Gravity Probe 1, nearly avoids a collision with an asteroid on its route to the red planet. The ship cannot hold altitude after altering its trajectory so the crew eject... Read full article


Robinson Crusoe on Mars ( 1964 )

By The Metzinger Sisters on Nov 20, 2015 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers

A lone astronaut pitted against all the odds beyond this earth. In the not too distant future, a two-manned spacecraft, the Mars Gravity Probe 1, nearly avoids a collision with an asteroid on its route to the red planet. The ship cannot hold altitude after altering its trajectory so the crew eject... Read full article


Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964, Byron Haskin)

By Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 20, 2015 From The Stop Button

Robinson Crusoe on Mars is silly. It’s inconsistent and silly. The film survives a weak first act–the narrative trick of opening with one character (played, poorly, by Adam West) and then transferring to another (Paul Mantee) is fine, only Mantee doesn’t get any good material for q... Read full article


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Victor Lundin has recently (as of early 1999) written and recorded a "Robinson Crusoe on Mars" song.
The "air pills" were stock M&Ms, while the "poi sausages" harvested from the Martian plants were pepperonis.
Female simian astronaut Mona was played by a male Woolly Monkey named "Barney", who wore fur trunks to conceal that fact.
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