Robinson Crusoe on Mars [videorecording] / a Paramount release; directed by Byron Haskin ; screenplay by Ib Melchior and John Higgins ; produced by Aubrey Schenck ; executive producer, Edwin F. Zabel ; a Schenck-Zabel production ; Paramount Pictures Corporation and Devonshire Pictures, Inc.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
Widescreen.
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2007
Description:
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Originally released as a motion picture in 1964. Based on a story by Daniel Defoe. Paul Mantee, Victor Lundin, Adam West, and The Woolly Monkey. Special features: 1994 audio commentary featuring screenwriter Ib Melchior, actors Paul Mantee and Victor Lundin, production designer Al Nozaki, Oscar-winning special effects designer and "Robinson Crusoe on Mars" historian Robert Skotak, and excerpts from a 1979 audio interview with director Byron Haskin; excerpts from Melchior's original screenplay. Survival kit: "Destination: Mars": a new video featurette by Michael Lennick detailing the science and dreams behind Robinson Crusoe on Mars; new music video for Lundin's song "Robinson Crusoe on Mars"; stills gallery of behind-the-scenes photos, production designs, and promotional material; theatrical trailer. Program notes featuring a new essay by filmmaker and space historian Michael Lennick, Melchior's "Brief Yargorian dictionary" of original alien dialect, and a list of facts about Mars from his original screenplay inserted in container.
Summary:
When his spaceship crash-lands on the barren wastelands of Mars, U.S. astronaut Commander "Kit" Draper must fight for survival, with a pet monkey his only companion until he meets "Friday," an alien.
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