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PostPosted: Mon Mar 09, 2015 11:24 pm    Post subject: Red Planet Mars (1952) Reply with quote




This is the most controversial sci-fi film of the 1950s — and for good reasons.

But before we get into the controversy, let's consider the merits of the movie, along with a word of warning about the story.

In this film, nobody goes to Mars, and no Martians invade the Earth. It's a moody and intense story about a research project at a mountain-top laboratory where a team of husband-and-wife scientists (Peter Graves and Andrea King) succeed in making contact with intelligent beings on Mars. Neither the scientist nor the audience actually gets to see the Martians.

But we do get to see telescopic photoes Mars showing the polar caps before (pictured below) and after the Martians have melted them to send water through the canals.








On the positive side, the scientific terms and concepts used in the story are admirably accurate. And watch for technological innovations like flat-screen TV's and remote controls, years ahead of their time. The laboratory set is extremely well designed, with a few gizmos reminiscent of the Krell lab in Forbidden Planet







Also on the plus side are the messages exchanged by Earth and Mars. These messages are sent in the form of a complex code, displayed as flickering lines on a large, circular video monitor.









The transmitter which Graves uses to send and receive these messages was originally invented by a Nazi scientist. Unbeknownst to Graves, this same Nazi scientists now occupies a secret lab which is located in the Andes mountains, funded by the Russians. The Russians want him to listen in on the Earth / Mars conversation, hoping to gain advance scientific knowledge from the Martians.





Oddly enough, the weird manner in which these messages are received is the film's chief strength. The eerie mood created by the blinking monitors in the hi-tech lab enhances the alien nature of the unseen Martians. The scene in which the Martians send their first intelligible message is electrifying — even though it's just a series of numbers which represent the value of Pi!





After the first stages of a common language have been established, the Martians begin sending messages which describe their highly advanced agricultural methods and energy-producing techniques. As a result, Earth's economy begins to collapse because people think the Martian super-science while make Earth's technology obsolete.

The social and economic concepts presented by the story are complex and challenging.






Okay, that's the good news. Now for the controversial part.

Red Planet Mars was deliberately written and directed to present a very direct Christian world-view to the general public. And yet, despite the fact that the filmmaker's hearts were in the right place, their method of deliver is painfully heavy handed.

The story's Christian message is presented much too boldly, using direct references to both God and Christ which attempt to hammer their message into the hearts of their audience. As a result, the film only succeeds in pushing non-Christians away from the point of view the story is trying to sell, instead of drawing them closer to it.

Bear this in mind when you view the scenes in which the scientists ask the Martians how they keep from blowing themselves up with the enormous power of their super-science. The Martians answer by saying that they have submitted the question to their supreme leader — who, according to the messages, is God!

The answer is translated as, "Seven lifetimes ago you were told to love good and hate evil. Why have you denied the truth?"

Since, according to earlier Martian messages, the Martian lifespan is 300 years, the message is interpreted as a reference to Jesus Christ, who lived 2,000 years ago. Subsequent messages make reference to the worship of false gods and the sins of mankind.

When the Martians reveal that they are ruled directly by God, this news causes a world-wide religious upheaval. The atheistic government in Russia is overthrown, and the Soviet satellite countries are released from communist rule.

In the past, many reviewers criticized the film for suggesting that the Soviet Union could be so easily toppled. But the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992 and the revival of Christianity in Russia during recent years has vindicated Red Planet Mars on this point.

Remember, I said this movie was controversial.

Warning: don't be confused by scenes which suggest that the ex-Nazi scientist is actually responsible for sending all the Martian messages. In spite of some confusing plot twists, sharp-eyed viewers will realize that there is good reason to believe that the Martians are real!

The climax is both unexpected and uplifting — a classic battle between good and evil. Give this one a fair chance and it will amaze and inspire you. Graves and King give dynamic performances — although Ms. King gets a little carried away with a few of her more dramatic lines.

Herbert Berghof as the Nazi scientist is excellent.










Marvin Miller (the voice of Robbie the Robot) is a treat as the Russian bureaucrat. Morris Ankrum's presence in the cast is both mandatory and welcome in view of the fact that he appeared in more 1950s sci-fi films than any other actor (including John Agar).

Last but not least — director Harry Horner was born in Czechoslovakia, a satellite country of the former Soviet Union. As such, his perspective on the subject of Soviet oppression should be viewed as more than mere opinion. Bare that in mind while watching the film.

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 10, 2015 9:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I suppose, Bud, that some viewers/critics could indeed feel that the religious themes are, as you write, too boldly presented.

On the other hand I must give the producers of RPM credit for not shying away from controversy. They chose not to pussyfoot around the issue by having it be delivered in a coy or read-between-the-lines manner.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 10, 2015 9:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think it's great movie for what it wants to say. (I would LOVE to see that spinning thing in color, though!)
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 10, 2015 11:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pow wrote:
I suppose, Bud, that some viewers/critics could indeed feel that the religious themes are,as you write, too boldly presented.

On the other hand I must give the producers of RPM credit for not shying away from controversy. They chose not to pussyfoot around the issue by having it be delivered in a coy or read-between-the-lines manner.

I completely agree.

I'm not at all a religious man but I cringe at the way critics have a fit about movies with a religious theme. Blatantly political propoganda and blatantly political actors are embraced by Hollywood. The minute these folks sniff anything Judeo-Christian, the gloves come off.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 10, 2015 8:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The filmmakers weren't taking any risk when they did this back in the fifties. You could thump your Bible 'till you woke up the neighbors back in those days. That's why George Pal delivered his Technicolor sermon, Conquest of Space without fear of repercussions. It ruined the story, but it didn't offend anybody Hollywood cared about in those days.

The problem with Red Planet Mars is that they worked so hard to get God into the story they left out the damn Martians!

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In the climax, Peter Graves and Andrea King are told by the Nazi guy that he — not the Martians — had sent all the messages. He did this to wreak vengeance on the world because he just hated everybody, bar none, period. So his plan was designed to destroy the world economy and all human societies.

This guy was one troubled puppy, my friends. Shocked

So, for a few minutes towards the end of the movie it appeared that the Martians were a complete hoax, and the whole idea that God ruled a utopian Mars directly was just the Nazis' cruel joke on the world.



Then Andrea King discovers, while reading the Nazis' notebook, that the replies to the questions about religion which the Nazi had transmitted were completely different from the ones which Peter and Andrea had received. When they point this out to the Nazi, he simply assumes that the American's created fake answers consistent with the idea that God was in charge of Mars.



Therefore, the Nazi's own replies to those question were never received, but the Americans did receive messages which agreed with Christian doctrine.



But who was doing the talking when these "other" replies were sent and received by Graves and King?

Did the Nazi really send most of the messages about a fictitious God-ruled Mars, tricking the whole human race just for the nasty fun of it until an avalanche destroyed his lab in the Andes and shut him up?

If so, how do we explain this odd turn of events?

The idea that Martians just jumped into the conversation whenever a question about religion was asked — and then replaced the Nazi's blatantly Aryan replies with appropriate message — is just bad story telling.

Alternative: God jumped into the conversation and started making direct references to Jesus and Christian doctrine when the humans started asking questions like, "How do you prevent war, despite your powerful technology?"

Well gee whiz, that's all nice and warm and fuzzy, but I gotta ask a variation on the question Jame T. Kirk put forth in The Final Frontier.

"Why does God need a radio?"

And this wasn't any ordinary radio that God could use to bring his voice to mankind in a weekly Fireside Chat with Jehovah — this was a radio that sent messages in a cryptic mathematical code that the humans took weeks to work out — while they were talking with the Nazi without even knowing it!

So, instead of just speaking out loud like He did to Mose once or twice (with a little burning bush theatrics thrown in), God chose to send his messages in flickering lines on a monitor that represented numbers, which (somehow) relayed messages to the American code breakers, in a language they had created to talk to a Nazi prankster in the Andes (again, without knowing it).



That's my problem with this movie: we're not really sure if Martians are talking to Earth at any point in the story, just a frustrating version of God who jumps in and starts preaching peace, love, and harmony, mixing his messages in with those of Adolf Jr.

Admittedly the movie presents a novel twist when Andrea King reveals the fact that the religious messages had not come from the Nazi. He chuckles and thanks them for faking the religious answers that misled the world into thinking God really was the ruler of Mars — thus uplifting the world with the revelation that God was real and He was ruling over the happy, peaceful Martians.

And so, for a few moments, the story is energized by the delightful conflict between this new revelation by Andrea King and the Nazi's confident conviction that his scheme worked perfectly and the world was about to be shattered by the shocking knowledge that this was all just a cruel conspiracy to mislead the gullible religious masses.

At this point, Andrea's faith in the idea that they actually were talking to God (or His Martian disciples) is renewed, and that the Nazi was not responsible for the portions of the exchange that involved the inspirational messages which had caused a world-wild religious rival.

Peter, however, assumes that the government agency in charge of the project has faked the religious replies, and he despairs over the heartbreak the world will suffer when they find out the whole thing has been a hoax.

It's one of the movie's best moments.

During all this, the Nazi is gloating over his victory. He scoffs, he ridicules, he chuckles and struts around the lab, eager for the arrival of the reporters which he anonymously summoned to the lab for an important announcement — his own announcement that will devastate the world.



But then . . . the monitor lights up with an incoming message! :shock

Since the Nazi's equipment was destroyed in the Andean avalanche, the only working communicator in the world is the one in the lab — the one receiving this new message.

So, who is this new message being sent by? Confused



If you don't remember what happens next, I'll let you re-watch the movie and enjoy that part, but bare in mind it's the most fervent bit of Bible thumping in the whole movie.

(I took the screen grabs for my posts from my DVD, but they aren't very clear. The Youtube video at the link below is just as good, so watch it and enjoy.


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 11, 2015 3:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bud Brewster wrote:
"Why does God need a radio?"

Check this out:

http://www.goddiscussion.com/37047/researcher-says-biblical-ark-of-the-covenant-was-a-radio-like-communication-instrument/

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 11, 2015 6:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Brent Gair wrote:
Pow wrote:
I suppose, Bud, that some viewers/critics could indeed feel that the religious themes are, as you write, too boldly presented.

On the other hand I must give the producers of RPM credit for not shying away from controversy. They chose not to pussyfoot around the issue by having it be delivered in a coy or read-between-the-lines manner.

I completely agree.

I'm not at all a religious man but I cringe at the way critics have a fit about movies with a religious theme. Blatantly political propaganda and blatantly political actors are embraced by Hollywood. The minute these folks sniff anything Judeo-Christian, the gloves come off.

Interesting isn't it? In Hollywood where they want everyone to be open, tolerant to every issue they demand, they cannot jump on any view opposed to theirs.

Try being an openly religious, conservative in Hollywood & see how far your career goes with the powers that be.
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I don't believe that they could "thump the bible" as easily as you write, Bud.

Sure, films throughout history did do religious themed films from Ben Hur to the King of Kings. However, I would submit that studios were generally very cautious about such films. They want moneymakers not controversy for the most part.

The 50s blacklisting certainly indicated that free speech was not as welcomed as America liked to depict. And part of that backlash was not just political but "any" opinion in any area of US living.

Ever notice how all of the classic family sitcoms such as Leave it To Beaver, Father Knows Best, Ozzie & Harriett avoided religious themed episodes for the most part.
Yeah, they'd do a Christmas show & then that was pretty much it. TV Networks did not want to alienate anyone of a different faith. So don't do anything.

I watched a documentary about the major Hollywood Studios. They did tackle sensitive subjects in their films of the 30s & 40s. Crime, poverty, war, prejudice & so forth.

Then the 50s came along, & according to this docu, the studios got very fearful. The majority of films that followed were generally fun, frothy, light fare.

There's No Business Like Show Business was the type of movie they put out. I like TNBLSB. But I also loved On The Waterfront, too. Guess which movie was an easy sell to a major studio & which one was hard?

I believe things have very much changed from those days. Independent films take risks, studios generally still would like to avoid risks. TV takes more risks nowadays than films. The reverse of the 50s interestingly enough.

Don't want to say that I only wish to see meaty subjects in film or TV. I enjoy a good Disney movie, or Singin' In The Rain like most folks.
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Most of you were too young to remember, but almost EVERYONE was afraid of the House Un-American Committee. It wasn't just communists they were after. Most of Hollywood was terrified. Many people's lively-hoods were simply destroyed. One HAD to be both anti-communist AND deeply main stream conservative in their religious preferences. Agnostic and atheists were also persecuted.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 11, 2015 11:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Good points, one and all, sir. I suspect that I'm a bit older than you (darn it . . . Sad ) and so I remember the 1950s a bit differently.

When I was but a wee lad of ten in 1958 and rushing down to the local theater to see sci-fi epics, it was common to see things like this at the beginning --







-- and things like this at the end. These pictures are from When Worlds Collide, of course.



The Space Children (1958) ended with Matthew 18:3 on screen, in Gothic font, straight out of the King James Bible.



In Robinson Crusoe on Mars, Paul Mante did a little preaching to Vic Lundin while teaching him English, and after Vic saved him from smothering in the falling ash when the meteor exploded, we got a nice voice over of Paul reciting the Lord's Prayer as they walk away together.

Those are just a few examples of what I mean by Bible thumping.

Actually, I shouldn't have used such a derogatory term when all I meant was that movies back then didn't mind addressing openly the idea that many of their beloved ticket-buying theater patrons did exactly what they were encouraged to do in the brief public service announcement that played at every drive-in in America during the pre-show and intermission, seven days a week.





It's interesting that you mentioned the Hollywood blacklisting from the 1950s. Those folks were blacklisted because they were suspected of being communists — those atheistic Russians that we God fearing, church going, Bible thumping Americans were encouraged to hate. (Grrrrr . . . Evil or Very Mad )

And Red Planet Mars is all about the magnificent victory God enjoys over those godless Russians at the end, when the Russian Christians rise up and overthrow the government.

And then sets fire to it. Very Happy



My point is that back in the 1950s, Hollywood didn't sweat making overt references to Christianity one little bit. Heck, it was expected! We were the good guys who took our families to the church our choice on Sundays.

Never mind the fact that we were prejudiced as hell when it came to race, creed, color, and (all too often) any other religion — Hollywood felt perfectly free to promote Christianity at the drop of a hat.

Back then it was actually controversial to speak against it!
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Without that system of beliefs we would have never had Ben-Hur, Quo Vadis, Demetrius and the Gladiators, King of Kings and all those other movies with Roman soldiers.

Not to mention the wonderful music of Dr. Miklos Rozsa!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikl%C3%B3s_R%C3%B3zsa

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After watching this movie several times over that last several decades, I still haven't figured out if there actually were any Martians communicating with mankind.

The movie offers ample evidence that Martians WERE contacting us . . . and evidence that the Martians didn't even exist! Shocked

I'm sure the movie contradicts itself so often that we'll never really answer this question by proving that there were-or-were-not Martians. But examining the evidence both for and against the opposing concepts can certainly provide us with ample information to fuel an enjoyable debate! Very Happy

Here's YouTube's version of the full movie so we can all do our homework to prepare for this discussion.


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I love and want the clock that is in the lab.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, there was an interview in the local newspaper with an author that wrote a book on the black listings. He was given access to the Soviet documents and wanted to show that the stories about Soviet interference and influence in Hollywood and Washington was wrong. What he found from the documents was that the level of communist interference and influence was greatly underestimated. I wish that I had bought the book back then, but back then I had no interest in the subject. I unfortunately don't even remember the author's name.

Former 60s radical Peter Coller has described himself as a "red diaper baby". He said that his parents and their friends who worked in Hollywood were communists that owed their allegiance to the Kremlin, not to Washington. There has always been a communist/socialist element in Hollywood, it's just that now, they don't try to hide it.

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I don't know if this was adapted from a stageplay. I'm guessing no. As Bill Warren writes in his Keep Watching the Skies book, it was probably influenced by the little 1950 movie, The Next Voice You Hear.

This all seems to be about a yearning to hear the voice of God, even if it's on a radio. Peter Graves stars in an early role as a scientist planning to send & receive messages from Mars. And I didn't think about it at the time, but now the images are coalescing in my mind and the set does resemble that Krell lab in Forbidden Planet. This may be a monumental discovery of . . . well, never mind, for now.

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This is an unusual, odd sci-fi film. Bill Warren himself writes in his book that he hated this film as a child; and that's not surprising. He expected martian invaders and so on.

But this film isn't for kids. It's for adults to debate and ponder as to what the intent and actual story of the movie really is. I don't think any two people will entirely agree on everything about this film.

By the midpoint of the tale, I viewed this as an anti-Soviet parable. This was the way, the storytellers told us, to do away with that godless empire and make things the way they should be. In a way, they were right in predicting events of 40 years later. Of course, events in the real world happened a bit more . . . realistically.

The other aspect to the film was, as mentioned above, a strong religious slant. Religion seemed to be THE WAY, this film tells us . . . to sweep away evil empires and the evil men who run them. The Soviets here, as someone else pointed out, are little more than gangsters in uniform. It seems to be an easy way out for all of us in the west (except the atheists among us).

Then the villain of the piece pops up in the last 10 minutes of the film and basically undermines all this philosophy we've been presented with so far. Or does he? A final plot twist and . . . sheesh, my head is spinning. Sort of a downbeat ending — unless you really believe.

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Bogmeister does a bangup job of analyzing this fascinating (but puzzling) movie. Either the filmmakers wanted the plot to present conflicting elements . . . or they didn't realize what they'd done.

The following is similar in many respects to my former comments about the plot . . . but with a brand new wrinkle that I think actually solves the mystery! Shocked

Read on and tell me if you think I'm right.

As stated in the earlier posts, I've tried for years to think of a way to sort out all the inconsistencies in the plot, but until today I just couldn't make it work. Still, the individual concepts are fascinating — if you ignore the fact that some concepts seem to cancel out others! Shocked

For example, here's the evidence that there IS an advanced Martian civilization.

Near the beginning of the movie we're shown telescopic photos of Mars showing what appears to be the polar caps before and after the Martians melted them to send water through the canals.


______Red Planet Mars (1952) and Percival Lowell


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At the end of the film, when the Nazi villain reveals that he's been faking the messages supposedly sent by the Martians, Andrea King notices that his written record of the messages is not consistent with the replies they received to various religious questions they transmitted. This proved that those replies were not from him, they were from . . . some other source.



Real Martians, maybe?

The movie makes it very clear that the equipment used to send and receive the messages is unique, and the only two working sets in the world belong to the good guys and the Nazi scientist. However, his set is eventually destroyed during an avalanche in the Andes, where his lab was hidden.



He escaped, but he no longer had a way to send more messages . . . even though one last (incomplete) message is received during the climax.

Those are the arguments FOR there being Martians who sent us messages.

On the other hand, the evidence that there are NO Martians at all is pretty convincing, too. The Nazi did in fact send answers to Peter and Andrea's messages (pretending he was the Martians), and these messages are the ones which describe the advanced Martian civilization . . . which the "Martians" claimed is ruled directly by God! Shocked

The only way we can resolve this contradiction is to make the rather large assumption that God actually used the Nazi the same way God used the authors of the Bible. They were God’s Holy Ghost Writers (pardon the joke . . . ).

Yeah, I know, that seems pretty outlandish. But it's actually consistent with what Christians believe — that the authors of the Bible were "divinely inspired" and wrote what God wanted them to write.

In this case, God commandeered the Nazi's plan to create fake Martian messages that gave elaborate descriptions of an advanced civilization. God planted ideas in his head . . . and they were actually true! Shocked

Ya gotta love the irony of that idea! The arrogant Nazi thought he was being so clever with his description of the Martian's super-civilization, when in fact he was just the pawn of the Big Guy in the Sky! (And the Martians were laughing their little green asses off! Laughing)

This crazy suggestion of mine is also completely consistent with the dramatic climax.

Behold! Cool

The Nazi is boasting to Peter and Andrea about how he faked the whole thing just to deceive the world and discredit Christianity.



But Andrea proves to him (using his own notes about the messages he sent) that all the messages pertaining to religious questions had different answers than the ones he sent — answers which were consistent with a Christian worldview, rather than the arrogant replies like the ones he had transmitted.

The Nazi then scoffs at their claim that they didn't fake those messages to promote the world's belief that Mars was ruled by God himself. Peter even begins to wonder if the people in Washington (who had taken over the task of decoding the messages) had done the faking!

The Nazi proudly points out that after his equipment was destroyed in the Andean avalanche, no more "messages from Mars" had been received. He claims this proved that all the messages were sent by him, and the pro-religious "translations" that differed from what he sent must be fakes created by the Americans in charge of the project.

It's important to note that he makes a dramatic speech which includes the quote, “Better to rein in hell than to serve in heaven!” This (and the whole tone of his remarks) seems to indicate that he’s not just trying to lash out at mankind, he’s battling against God as well!



Wow, those Nazis never think small, eh? Confused

When Peter and Andrea are faced with the possibility that the Nazi will convince the world the whole incident has been a hoax, the brave couple conspire to kill the Nazi (and themselves), thus preventing his evil plan to destroy the world's new-found peace. Peter secretly opens a valve on a hydrogen tank and leaks the flammable gas into the room . . . and then he offers Andrea a cigarette. They both know what will happen when he lights it.

But the question concerning the messages' authenticity is suddenly answered when a new message comes in — even though there's no other transmitter on Earth that could send it!



Unfortunately the message is never completed, because the Nazi is so enraged by the discovery that his conspiracy has somehow been thwarted, he fires his pistol into the equipment, igniting the hydrogen-rich air and blowing up the lab. And right before doing so, he delivers a very significant line.

“No, not NOW. HE won’t . . . beat me . . . NOW!”

It’s as if the Nazi knew in that last moment that God actually existed and was about to destroy his carefully arrange plot against mankind.

Watch the video of the movie (starting at the 1:15:00 mark) and listen to the Nazi’s revelation concerning his plot.


___________________ Red Planet Mars 1952


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The final scene in the movie reveals that the incomplete message (which was relayed simultaneously to Washington) was translated as meaning, "Well done, my good and faithful . . . "

In other words, God gave Peter and Andrea a great big “at-a-boy” for sacrificing themselves to defeat the Nazi!

Guys, I know this interpretation of the movie is far-fetched, but I’m damned if I can find another way to make sense of the plot. I must admit, however, that it appeals to the writer in me, and it connects all the dots better than anything else I can come up with.

Please note that it’s logical to assume that the Nazi did send the messages other than the last incomplete message and the replies to the religious questions which differed completely from what the Nazi transmitted.

And also consider the fact that his own replies to the religious questions were not received at all — an interesting clue all by itself!

Furthermore, I think the reception of the incomplete last message seems to prove that God and his loyal Martians were aware of the whole drama taking place on Earth, which means the Martians were in on God’s sneaky plan to make the Nazi think he was making up the whole story about an advanced Martian civilization. Wink

In other words, the arrogant Nazis was “divinely inspired” without knowing it until the very end! That’s quite a remarkable plot twist, and I like the concept.

To summarize:

~ There really was a Martian civilization ruled directly by God (which is reminiscent of the Hebrews in the Old Testament, although they weren’t quite as obedient sometimes Rolling Eyes).

~ The Martians could have sent the messages themselves if they (and God) had chosen to do so.

~ The Boss on Mars decided to plant ideas in the Nazi’s mind and have him do the transmitting. And yet, whenever the Nazi didn’t send what God wanted him too, God simply blocked the Nazi’s bad message and let the Martians send the correct reply.

~ That’s why the replies to the religious questions were different from the Nazi’s!

~ The capper to all this, of course, is the fact that the Nazi assumed the religious replies were faked by the Americans, and he went insane when he realized that the incomplete message proved that Peter and Andrea were right about the whole thing! Very Happy

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~ The Space Children (1958)


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