Flight to Mars (film)

Flight to Mars
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Lesley Selander
Screenplay by	Arthur Strawn
Produced by	Walter Mirisch
Starring	Marguerite Chapman Cameron Mitchell Arthur Franz
Cinematography	Harry Neumann
Edited by	Richard Heermance
Music by	Marlin Skiles
Production company	Monogram Pictures
Distributed by	Monogram Distributing
Release date	November 11, 1951 (1951-11-11) (United States)
Running time	72 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Flight to Mars is a 1951 American Cinecolor science fiction film drama, produced by Walter Mirisch for Monogram Pictures, directed by Lesley Selander, that stars Marguerite Chapman, Cameron Mitchell, and Arthur Franz.

The film's storyline involves the arrival on the Red Planet of an American scientific expedition team, who discover that Mars is inhabited by an underground-dwelling but dying civilization that appears to be humanoid. The Martians are suspicious of the Earthmen's motives. A majority of their governing body finally decides to keep their visitors prisoner, never allowing them to return home with the information they have discovered. But the Earthmen have sympathizers among the Martians. Soon a plan is set in motion to smuggle the scientists and their Martian allies aboard the guarded spaceship and to make an escape for Earth.