It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

I am a fan of the early 1950s Sci-Fi Movies. This film was substantially better than I thought it would be.If it seems like you have seen this movie before - perhaps you already have. Many of the props were recycled from other Sci Fi Movies. The Ship interior is from "Rocketship XM", The Martian suits are from "Destination Moon".What impacted me most about this movie were the Martian Fashions. The women of Mars were wearing miniskirts in 1951!This is obviously an extremely low budget movie which was shot very quickly. It does however have a certain charm which you never find in the modern gazillion dollar Sci Fi movies.

...Marguerite Chapman's legs, Lucille Barkley's legs, Virginia Huston's legs. Sexy space tootsies provide the principle interest in slow, talky space opera Flight To Mars. Unfortunately the first half of the running time is spent on the space flight itself before we get to see the shapely Chapman in the sexiest space babe outfit this side of Devil Girl From Mars (1954 -- see my review). She and her fellow Martian honeys seem to be what keeps the dying Red Planet alive, along with a phony element that has a goofy name sounding something like Congoleum.The Rocketship crew, which crash-lands on Mars, is led by the ever earnest Arthur Franz and an embarrassed looking John Litel. Cameron Mitchell plays a reporter along to observe the expedition, but he mostly just observes the comely Ms. Huston. Almost as soon as contact is made with the underground-dwelling Martians, the dull, unromantic Franz surprisingly becomes the love object of hot, hot, hot Marsette Chapman. The Martian leadership headed by the formidable Morris Ankrum, later a Perry Mason judge, helps rebuild the spaceship, supposedly so the earthlings can return home, but the Martians all along plan to seize the rocket when it is finished. But nothing much in the way of action comes of this plot -- just talk, talk, talk. They missed a wonderful opportunity to have what could have been a swell cat fight, when Barkley, suspecting Chapman had joined the earthlings, followed her down he hallway to spy on her. Instead of tackling the leggy Chapman herself, Barkley calls for a couple of burly male Mars henchmen to nab her. Oh, well, Barkley wouldn't have stood much of a chance anyway, as Chapman was much bigger and had showed herself to be one heck of a mean, tough femme fa-tale in Mr. District Attorney (1947). But I'm making this turkey sound like more fun than it is. In fact Flight To Mars is cheap, tacky, prolix, and boring. Only for geeky students of 1950's Si-Fi, fans of the under-appreciated Marguerite Chapman (which obviously includes yours truly), and desperate insomniacs. Others should avoid this picture as if it were a hypochondriac friend wanting to tell you about her latest medical procedure.

When I was a kid, my sister used to work at little video store, and sometimes, there were old copies of videos lying around that the store would just give out. One of those films that my sister got, was "Flight to Mars" (1951), a movie that I had never heard of. Since I was big into sci-fi movies, I gave it a chance and was pleasantly surprised. The movie is about four people, three scientists and one journalist, who journey to Mars, not knowing what they will find or whether they will find their way home again. On their way to Mars, our heroes encounter a meteor storm, and lose all contact with Earth, their only option is to keep going. When they get to Mars, they find that there exists a race of fellow human beings who survive underground. At first, everything seems utopia, but, as we soon learn, the martians are running out of resources on their planet and Earth starts to look pretty good. Luckily, not all the martians are on board with the idea of conquering Earth, including a beautiful, short-skirt, wearing martian woman named Alita, who decide to help the Earth people. This movie was filmed on a very low budget and in only five days. Never the less, the movie looks fantastic in Technicolor, with the well done production design. And being at just 70 Min's, you have yourself a nice, little space adventure. Check it out. 8 out of 10.

This is a good example, a basic example, of what an Outer Space film should be. It was made during the greatest period of movie making, the Fifties.We have the theme of an isolated group, which is easy to do when you're speaking about a space ship crew. They visit Mars. We can just interject any far off planet or place. The story is what is important.And that's what makes these films superior to the later ones. They told stories. We had basic sets, and actually better effects. Why? Because we weren't inundated with a load of crap that only the biggest dork could care about. We got the story, and that's what the audience wants to see in a movie.If the director wants to make a social or political statement, he does it with the story and characters, as he does here. No preaching, no sermons, no contrivance, just a story.It is a basic story, and it is entertaining. We get camera shots that look good, and we are diverted just enough from place to place to keep it interesting.Modern directors are only now realizing how pathetic the garbage of the late sixties and the seventies were. Few films from that era will be salvaged a few centuries from now.Meanwhile, this basic yarn, with just enough subplots to carry it, will still be enjoyed. What is fascinating is how these "fifties flicks" actually come across more credible than the later ones that strive for credibility. The story was natural. No one cares if the costumes are too clean and sets too clear to be realistic. They have to tell the story first, so visibility to the spectator comes first. Meanwhile, we get what are actually more believable actions, reactions, and motivations in films like this than in modern science fiction. We aren't confused. We see what's going on, and the movie is made for us, with the effort made by the film maker, instead of vice versa, because let me tell those self righteous morons something: most of us aren't going to strain ourselves for your benefit. That's why so many people prefer to watch films like this.