Watched This DVD Today While Shipping!

I admit it doesn't have the special effects we are used to today, but it is darn good for its' time!

I saw it as a twelve year old up on Kodiak Island, Alaska at the Navy Base's large screen theater.

At Kodiak Island we had like one TV station that we could get reception for!  So during the 3 years my dad was stationed there, I did see several movies as well as collect comics!

This movie had vivid scenes, and was a great story! It was one of my first Sci-Fi movies and probably one of the reasons why this film genre is still one of my favorites today!

Plus, you gotta place it in time... in 1964 it was still 5 years before Neil Armstrong stepped on the Moon.  The USA and the Soviet Union were racing for that goal, so something set on Mars was really Sci-Fi !

For those that have never seen it, 'Robinson Crusoe on Mars' was a 1964 science fiction film 'retelling' of the classic novel by Daniel Defoe, except it was set on the Planet Mars instead of an island on Earth!

It was fantastically directed by Byron Haskin, and produced by Aubrey Schenck.

The big thing to me as a kid was that storyline was fantastic! There was no need for blood, gore and HoRRoR scenes in this film to get the storyline across!

The film also starred some great acting by actors Paul Mantee as the modern day Robinson Crusoe, Victor Lundin as Friday and Adam West as the second astronaut, (who of course two years later went on to become TV's Batman!).

This may seem like an oddball film with the title of the movie as it is, but there are many Sci-Fi fans that have been waiting for this film to appear on DVD!

Originally in the 'Lower 48 States', this film was paired with other drive-in fare, but don't miss it because of that! 

This DVD has been released as a 'Special Edition' on September 18th. Not to be missed!

And no, we don't sell it, but making our blog readers aware of this new release! I definitely enjoyed it today and will re-watch it Saturday night with my youngest son with the 'comments' sound on!

Thanks for reading this popular culture - comics - comic books blog post and feel free to comment below !

Michael