The Angry Red Planet

The Angry Red Planet
The Angry Red Planet
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Ib Melchior
Screenplay by	Sidney W. Pink; Ib Melchior
Story by	Sidney W. Pink
Produced by	Sidney W. Pink; Norman Maurer
Starring	Gerald Mohr; Naura Hayden; Jack Kruschen; Les Tremayne
Cinematography	Stanley Cortez
Edited by	Ivan J. Hoffman
Music by	Paul Dunlap
Production; company	Sino Productions
Distributed by	American International Pictures
Release date	November 23, 1959;
Running time	83-87 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$200,000

The Angry Red Planet (also called Invasion of Mars and Journey to Planet Four) is a 1959 American science fiction film directed by Ib Melchior and starring Gerald Mohr.^[1]^[2]

Melchior reportedly had an initial production budget of only $200,000 and was given just nine days to film it.^[3] Such financial and time constraints necessitated the use of "CineMagic", a film-processing technique that combined hand-drawn animations with live-action footage. The relatively inexpensive process was used for all scenes depicting the surface of Mars. While CineMagic proved unsatisfactory for creating visually believable special effects for The Angry Red Planet, producer Norman Maurer did reuse the process in 1962, although to a lesser extent, in the comedy film The Three Stooges in Orbit.^[4]

^ Warren, Bill (1986). Keep Watching the Skies! American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties, volume 2 (1958-1962). Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 1986, p. 730. ISBN 0-89950-170-2.
^ "The Angry Red Planet (1960)" Archived 2018-11-08 at the Wayback Machine, "Overview", Turner Classic Movies (TCM), Turner Broadcasting System, a subsidiary of Time Warner, Inc., New York, N.Y. Retrieved September 16, 2018.
^ "The Angry Red Planet (1959)" Archived 2018-09-16 at the Wayback Machine, "Trivia", TCM, Retrieved September 16, 2018.
^ Wingrove, David. Science Fiction Film Source Book (Longman Group Limited, 1985).

[1] Warren, Bill (1986). Keep Watching the Skies! American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties, volume 2 (1958-1962). Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 1986, p. 730. ISBN 0-89950-170-2.

[2] "The Angry Red Planet (1960)" Archived 2018-11-08 at the Wayback Machine, "Overview", Turner Classic Movies (TCM), Turner Broadcasting System, a subsidiary of Time Warner, Inc., New York, N.Y. Retrieved September 16, 2018.

[TCM-3] "The Angry Red Planet (1959)" Archived 2018-09-16 at the Wayback Machine, "Trivia", TCM, Retrieved September 16, 2018.

[4] Wingrove, David. Science Fiction Film Source Book (Longman Group Limited, 1985).

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