30.12.09

red planet mars (1952)

"Lenin dreamt of having the world in his hands..."
Chris Cronyn (Peter Graves) and his wife Linda (Andrea King), are scientists who receive signals possibly from intelligent life on Mars. The messages tell of Mars as a paradise, and begin to quote biblical passages. People start to believe that they could be messages from God. This sparks a religious revival across the world. But are the messages genuine, or a way of fermenting unrest in the world by Communist insurgents?
A commie bashing propaganda film, from the cold war, which is of interest only if you want to see at first hand the paranoia of that age.

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