Back when female astronauts wore lip stick and dresses on the ship. The good old days.

I'll take these old movies anyday over the new one from 2000 to date 😊

What is hilarious about all those old sci-fi movies is that they always manage to fit 5 or 6 people in a small space ship and they all go on board wearing their everyday civilian clothes. Just think that 30 years later, just to orbit the Earth, we only manage ONE man and he wears excessively bulky specialize clothing.

Mars with snow all over it. No spacesuits. A race living underground, and they can hear us but we can't hear them on earth. I love it!

and people think we never went to the moon...well here's proof we went to mars..

Love these old campy sci fi films. We didn't even know there were other galaxies at the time this film was made.

This showed us how good The Forbidden Planet was. It was made only 7 years after this, and still stands up to scrutiny.

Pre-flight checklist: Rocket ship. Check. Space suits from another movie. Check. Lady scientist in a skirt. Check. Pipe and tobacco. Check.

I liked the war surplus B-17 ball turret being used as part of the spaceship drive.

As I get older and realize all the good movies have already been made, I find myself more enjoying older films like this, which enjoy some nostalgic humor but really movies are done more or less the same way, just as tech gets better, the dialogue and gadgets. Typewriters become computers. Better tech dialogue.

1951, six years after the war, most of these guys were vets. I had to laugh at the sight of all the Eames chairs. Back then we thought they looked super-futuristic. They served as the template for the modern waiting-room chair in airports, train stations, ferry terminals, doctors' offices . . .

No political correctness.no holding back on what they say.smoke if you got em.get the girl too serve coffee and it's the perfect world. I'll take things Archie Bunker would say for $100

The captain says, "I see a good place to land!" The unspoken part, "We're going way too fast! How will I ever slow this thing down! Hey! Maybe that mountain will stop us!"

Of all the 50s sci-fi films I have seen, this was one of them.

28:09 Gotta love the 1950's. Smoking in the rocket ship!

I love the artistic backgrounds painted for this movie. They look like the covers of Sci Fi magazines of the era.

Imagine being born to a planet that has one third the gravity of Earth, then coming to Earth where everything, including your body, feels 3 times heavier. Those poor Martians are about to experience the gravity of the situation. ;-]

"What I want to see is the kitchen!" Gawd I love these old movies, they're so frelling dumb they're funny.

LOVE THIS MOVIE!!! A Real Piece of SciFi history! Starring Marguerite Chapman and Cameron Mitchell, Flight to Mars (1951) follows five Earthlings who complete a successful space expedition to Mars and encounter seemingly welcoming Martians. ~ Be Safe out there folks ~ Peace & Health to Us All.

This documentary proves, that we didn't need all of that fancy equipment, that NASA uses now, when we went into space, in the 1950s.

Amazing that none of the actors could say their lines without cracking up laughing .😂when actors really had to act and not 'break character" 💪

People are people no matter where they are. What is happening to people, earth, and society will happen no matter where we go.

Today they spend billions making movies with latest cgi etc, and we still end up with cars driving off of 20 stories buildings and driving off or passengers getting out of a plane mid flight and jumping across to another plane, punching the window in, dragging the pilot out and flying off in the plane. Basically real life cartoons

They are dressed as if they're taking a fight to Chicago or New York...🤣

NASA IS TAKING NOTES

And with absolutely no training AWAY WE GO!

How could they leave us hangin like this !!!? We want more Space girls.

The great thing about early Sci-Fi is that by being CHEESIER, by having more special effect 'flaws', than contemporary Sci-Fi, they allow the child in you, despite your age (I am 67), to still come out to fill in these 'Cheese Holes' - these 'gaps' - with your own inner child's fantasies. ... Yes, CHEESE IS GOOD!!

she is wearing a space dress..this is so real..doesnt get any better than this

It's funny how aliens in Hollywood movies always seem to be able to speak English.

Random fact. Cameron Mitchell who plays the journalist later played the character Uncle Buck in the Western series High Chaparral.

A tragic reminder of a time when there were struggling script writers, score composers, directors and actors who were unfit to even make it into Hollywood B-movies.

This movie is spot-on on Mars! ... Mars is not the desolate, lifeless planet NASA has been lying to us about, with photoshopped images. ... The place is crawling with hot Martian babes! ... and, who knows, you might bump into hot Marguerite Chapman!

Funny that the spaceship uses office chairs not designed for supporting the human body during accelleration or reentry.

Space travel certainly was different back in 50s!

Good to see everyone so relaxed. They could have just been going to the local Walmart

So , as civilized and advanced the Martians were, they had to depend an Earth radio broadcasts to learn their language.I see this idea in a lot of 50s sci fi movies.

Interesting. You can see elements of 30’s Sci-fi like Buck Rogers and few elements of later movies. It looks as if they did reuse the space suits of Destination Moon and that rocket was used in many films.

Spaceships to Mars were certiaínly a lot faster in the 1950s -- than what they might be in the 2030s, 2040s, and beyond. Only nine days total to reach Mars back then. I call that fast. These days, even if we should ever get there, one way flight time will be 10 to 12 months. Instead of 7 to 9 days. Like they were in the mid-1950s. Hot dang, sweet tamales.

This movie is hysterical. So the Earth people are walking on Mars with minimal protection which is wild but these mysterious Mars people with these silly suits, are IN SUITS!!! wow.

When the crew met the Martians I thought they had just stepped out of a Lancaster bomber.

FLIGHT TO MARS (Monogram, 1951) in Cinecolor! Now available on DVD and Blu-Ray. Starring Cameron Mitchell and Marguerite Chapman. With John Litel and Morris Ankrum. Good special visual effects for its time. Marguerite looks stunning in her Martian fashions, especially the blue satin minidress and the reverse-angle black high heels. The interior of the rocketship is the recycled set from ROCKETSHIP X-M (1950). The rocketship model was recycled in WORLD WITHOUT END (1956) and ATOMIC SUBMARINE (1959).

They lost coms. Apparently the string between the cans wasn't long enough. Heads will roll

T & A, high heels, and gams galore. My kind of sci fi. Also, they wore the "Pyramids of Giza" wire framed bras for additional enhancement.

We all know why they took Carol along. Coffee and Sammiches, right?

That’s what today’s sci-fi films lack, a Woody station Wagon! Not only this film, This Island Earth had one, King of the Rocket Men….

I managed to watch until the meeting with the Martian teletubbies (who should have been smoking pipes) and then lost the will. However, I enjoyed the casual and easygoing nature of the crew. I'm sure the movie did wonders for the tobacco industry.

Lovely, long-legged Martian beauties--Ah if only it were true...👩

I thought the obligatory meteors had to look like popcorn, they did in most of the other movies.

No science was harmed in the making of this movie...

For those interested, this film was released in 1951.

Pre-flight checklist: Rocket ship. Check. Space suits. Check. Pipe and tobacco. Check.

20:31 No contact for 48 hours and don't forget they've already been up in space two days before this. We haven't seen their sleeping arrangements, eating arrangements, haven't seen them take a sh!t or a shower. Things must be getting pretty "ripe" in there about now.

Their rocket space ship crashes into the side of a mountain at high speed, they aren't wearing seat belts and after the crash everyone is ok! LOL!

Hope Steve's cigarettes were filter tipped. Nice pair of loafers being worn by one of the pilots....mmmm...nice!! That coffee and sandwiches got me hungry.

That landing at 30:00 made me laugh out loud. “Yeah, I’ll just slam it into this cliff…..”

It came out in 1951. So when judging this, you need to put it into proper perspective. I think it's incredible. You can see how this influenced, and other films of this genre influenced Gene Rodenberry.

Nothing like a nice cigarette, in flight.

Ah how I remember the good old days, when men flew to Mars with no space suits. What pansies we have today

I'm loving this... they're wearing a mix of B-17 and B-29 high altitude flight suits and oxygen mask!!

I will always like the sleek, single stage rockets of these older space movies. I was born in 1952 and I grew up watching these 50's kinds of movies. And getting to Mars in only 9 days....wow....!! The first half of the movie was kinda ho-hum, but after they got to Mars, the story got a lot more interesting.

47:57 I am still trying to wrap my mind around that their entry door into the rocket is right where the engine is.

This film was made less than 20 years before people actually landed on the moon. I love the fact they wear normal clothes in the rocket and one of them smokes a pipe!

21:41. Two day's to Mars! Gawd, they must be travelling quickly?

I love these old movies. They date to a time where we used our imaginations instead of millions of dollars in special effects. But the landing on Mars? LMAO! Gymnasts don't stick a landing like they did in this movie yet, no whiplash. Too funny. And the WW2 Bomber Flight Gear for space suites versus what the English speaking martians wear...telly tubby-esk. bwahahahahaha!

Love the galvanized roofing material covering the interior of the spaceship. When they get to mars they can use it to build a chicken coup.

hilarious idea of what space flight would be like - ham acting and melodramatic dialogue! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

It's really good they know nothing about space and have desk chairs for their seats

I love the miniskirts 🥰😄😉👍👍

Back when the gravity of Mars was equivalent to that of Earth.

Film makers were aware of movie lighting once. 🎭🎬👍

News Flash: They can't leave tomorrow because of the price of gas now.

I didn't know women astronauts wear lipstick and high heels in space

Nice "Space suits". Nice "Hat". Nice "Pipe". Nice "Oxygen masks". Ooooooh, this seems sooooo real!

My new assistant, eh? Well, I've got something you can assist me with right here....

29:38 "see a place to land, if we make it, we might be able to take off again." Proceeds to fly the rocket nose first into the side of a mountain 🤦‍♂️...

Amazing to think that this film was made the same year as The Thing From Another World!

What a crazy little film! Seems like a product of the 1910s or 20s rather than 1951. SPOILER ALERT: The astronauts wear relatively casual tan attire throughout (sans fedoras) while the native Martians for some reason wear space suits... on their own planet. And elevators confound the space age Earthlings. "Hey! This thing's moving!" 😂

Those Martian high-heels are pretty cool........

Gee they had gravity back then and you could smoke a pipe, I loved the space suites where the face is exposed, it was corny but I loved it

18:35 I love this hypothesis. There actually is some truth to it. The universe always was and always will be. There was no beginning to the universe and can be no end. We, inside the universe, experience it, in "cosmically microscopic way." We are born, live and die, seeing very little, in the grand scheme. Space is endless, so it is naive to think we are alone in the universe, however, this specific planet, Earth, in this particular galaxy, may be of some extra importance. WE may not be HERE by some random evolutionary chance. An amazing stroke of cosmic luck. Is that how intelligent life actually develops in an endless universe? Life just HAPPENS!?! and that's why we can't figure it out??? Why people pray to gods??? We think because we can't explain ourselves, it must be god, or some external influence from "aliens". But what if the real truth is way more bizzarro than either of those??????

2:04 They want to send a war correspendent to Mars as an astronaut? Only in 1951.

Those heels at 52:09 are essential to counter the Martian air & gravity effects, so the space blokes told her.

This isn't a "Full Movie" since title and opening banners are missing.

Martian humans with American accents.

I like how the martians have IKEA stores on mars lol

Let’s goto Mars with 3 OLD GUYS… A DAME… and a FAST TALKING REPORTER… in rocket that moves SLOWER than Grandma’s walker and HOPE we can figure out how to GET BACK! LMFAO

I wonder if Gene Roddenberry got the mini skirt idea for the Star Trek series from this film? Released in 1951, by the way, ahead of its time.

Mini skirts 15 years before their time. Genius. 😊

Why would Elon Musk go build a station on Mars when there is a whole city underground ????? :o))

Amazing space flight in high heels

!8:38. What will astronauts eat in space? Why, coffee and sandwiches, of course.

Funny, love the Mars fashion. So Buck Rogers! The space ship had Navy carts to sleep on. That brought back memories sailing at sea on a navy warship. Micro mime Skirt & 😊 Stilettos.😊 The martians listened to our broadcast radio broadcast and learn a lot about human nature and humanity but somewhere they missed diplomacy.😅 😢 I want to marry a martian girl does that require a blood test😊? 😊 Imagination just having fun chill! Story telling without all the special effects. The decor of the interior of Mars city is like The Jetsons!

The Martians look like senior Teletubbies.

⚠️ WARNING Please don't eat or drink while watching this movie ....you may choke while laughing 😂

19:52 They're way past the moon yet he knows the earth is being bombarded then the question "will we be bombarded out here?" - as he watches them stream past the window.

Apacuits from destination moon and the first modern SF MINISKIRTS!

So, that's where Morris Ankrum, is from🤔!? Never dawned on me, how far back, Cameron Mitchells' career, really goes………… Impressive!!! Film is typical, for this unknowing era.

First scene of this movie: If you are leving on a spaceship trip to Mars in just 2 days time -- why are you dreaming that maybe some day, you will have a telescope that can see as far as Mars? Makes zero sense. Just take some cameras and film with you, the quality of the images yoiu take on Mars will undoubtedly be better.

Fire and smoke ... in space 😂