The Wizard of Mars (1965) | SCI-FI HORROR MOVIE | L. Frank Baum - Armando Busick - David L. Hewitt 

Amazing that places on Mars have cobwebs, presumably made by spiders. David Bowie was right all along!

A number of the comments here are perhaps expressed by those who simply do not "get It". Understandable for a generation fed on CGI, and special effects rather than a good story, which movies generally today so lack. Indeed! This film is a gem, and just to hear the dialogue by John Carradine is a real treat. Our current influx of science fiction is composed of some pretty amazing special effect, but sadly lack real fleshed out characters and gifted actors with real acting abilities, and distinctive voices...something the early films, such as this one's era, had an abundance of. It take more than just the dreariness of constant explosions, action characters battling one another, and predictable story lines to make science fiction an art form worth preserving. These older films, and TV series of that time, need to be preserved, not just for the sake of entertainment, but to bring back the atmosphere, and sense of wonder that science fiction was meant to be, and to simply show what makes the films, and TV programmes of this era rare and unique. Thank you for bringing The Wizard of Mars back to those who can appreciate it!

The older I get, the more I appreciate the classics like this. The innocence was level 11.

This film was produced on a budget of $35,000.00 The same year Irwin Allen produced the original pilot for Lost in Space, No Place to Hide, for $600,000.00 The most expensive TV pilot ever made up to that time.

How to turn a ten-minute story into a 77-minute film. Make the "actors" do a lot of walking.

Literally laughed out loud when they suggested keeping their suits at the same pressure as the Martian atmosphere. They'd be dead in seconds - had visions of Arnold Schwarzenneger in Total Recall

Loved how the spacecraft had seats with no cushions and no safety belts, but the ship had artificial gravity.

14:48 “…we haven’t seen any signs of life…” Right when they walk past a shrub.

Gosh how I miss those great days, and B-Movies that entertained, excited, and left us with a feeling of Hope at the end. 👍👍 5🌟

Note the wall-clock in the first minutes - year 1975 landing on Mars. Well, that spaceship DID look awfully capable ! Impressive theramin soudtrack ! The head Martian is, who else but John Carradine. His monologue is the film's high point.

SPACE monitor: North, South, East, West :)))

As we emerged after the fourth day from the firey depths of Mars we could only guess at how long we had wandered there.!!! Brilliant

Love the 60's electronic blips and noises which sound exactly like tuning my Shortwave Receiver back then.

I don't know the fate of the three male actors, but the female actress is still alive, as of September, 2023. She is 92 years old.

On board gravity - the hidden technology that shaves 30% (or more) off every SciFi movie budget.

Shout out to FILMIX! Thank you for uploading this gem of a classic. I am a great fan of Sci Fi. and never saw this movie in its entirety. I just saw some excerpts from the final scenes in the corridors. For 1965 the Spaceship interior designs, exterior shots of space with the ships engine active with fire, the space suit designs the environments the hero go thorough are really on the very high quality level. Also the sound effects used here are from great Sci-Fi classics like Forbidden Planet with Leslie Nilson, Star Trek with William Shattner. This movie deserves to be restored for posterity of movie history and how uniquely Sci-Fi ideas were perceived at that time. A lot of the comments under neath are funny and I can get why for someone who does not understand and get this movie, especially the younger generations. If they only knew how crappy garbage of majority of the movies are today. Again thank you for this rare and unique movie that transcends viewers like me into an imaginary world away from today's insanity. Much better than drugs that eventually destroy your life. Cheers.

Epic monologue from John Carradine.

A classic movie of early science fiction. I love the fact that in the start of the movie they use many photos from the 200 inch Hale Telescope. Now a days these photos can be taken with amateur astrophotographers and look mush better because of updated digital photography. I know because I get better results in my back yard.

"We had to go to Mars! We couldn't go to the Moon like everyone else!"

Thank you FILMIX for uploading this fantastic Sci-Fi Horror movie, I really appreciate it!

Stock footage from " War Of The Satellites " produced and directed by the great Rodger Corman .❤😊

L. Frank Baum wrote the Wizard of Oz and died in 1919.

Never get lost with a navigation graticule with n,e,s,w on it.

They made this back before acting was invented.

This movie cries out for the RiffTrax treatment! They used to run this one a lot on my local TV station as an afternoon movie back in the early 70's.

I like how their navigation screens are oriented -North,South,East,and West. Once they left the magnetic field of Earth, Those terms would not be used.

I watched this to pass some time but found it very watchable and quite well done for such a limited budget. It generated some eerieness and some tension. Thanks for posting this!

That sand gets into everything. Those that do hate sand are wise.

When I see movies this bad I always feel an odd admiration of some kind. Like it takes a certain amount of courage to actually commit to something like this.

I've never seen this film before, I thought it was very good for 1965. Thank you so much for the upload. Bless you 🙏🤗❤️🖖✌️

4 days, and nobody too a piss or a dump. Perhaps the studio forgot the toilet rolls and the Mountain Dew?

Surprisingly watchable. Thank you. Loved the guy with the big ears!

Probably the greatest movie ever made.

John Carradine. Classy.

We are going to Mars, aren't planning on running into anyone or even landing. However we still packed guns :P

When they were walking into that cave they should’ve come across the Mars musician playing the vibraphone!😀

I've trying to find this film for decades. Thanks!

"Is that Mars, Bruno?" "No that's Mars, Candy..."

52:55 -- That alien creature was also used in "Space Probe Taurus." He reminds me of a guy from my high school days.

It cost $35,000! It is remarkable what they accomplished on such a small budget The canal scenes and the desert under a red sky really look alien. Even the action of the pendulum in the time capturing machine has a spooky appearance. Well done. If I had a criticism, it would be the wooden acting, but what the heck, the actors wouldn't have been paid much on that budget!

One of the best sci fi film was the 1956 earth vs flying saucers . The dialogue was amazing and the concept of how the flying machines worked still to this day is a sound description of how they may actually work .amazing

I love the fact that they had the forethought, on a trip to Mars, to take along two inflatable rafts, paddles, and a rifle. That was what was missing on the Moon landings: a rifle.

Looks like something I 'D HAVE PAID TO SEE IN A THEATER BACK WHEN I was 10. Not since Sata Clause Conquers The Martians have I BEEN SO ENTHRALLED..And that musical score...

Mayday, mayday, can you build another ship, train a crew and come help us out maybe in the next couple of years or so? At least it's mildly amusing so far.

Funny how they have periscopes like a submarine. Hilarious!

This is the greatest classic sci-fi space movie ever🧑‍🚀👽👏👏👏

"We haven't seen any signs of life." As they pass by tumble weeds and scrub brush...

Got to love how a gun is the answer to problems

I am pleasantly surprised by this one.

First thing you do when encountering an alien lifeforms is to shoot them

19:16 “I’ve never seen ANYTHING so BEAUTIFUL!” Cut to heaps of dripping turds. Then cut to dude looking around like “WTF is she TALKING about???”

The Time Travelers of the previous year was actually very good, that's the one to watch.

Herman Munster's boss Mr. Gateman is the Wizard of Mars.

A Pretty Great Movie!! Can't believe I haven't seen it before.

Now you know why movies like 2001, Forbidden Planet and Star Wars made such a splash

Killing those innocent worms, while they were just being curious about new arrivals

I wish I knew more about this film. It sucks but it's got some interesting things. Those are real military pressure suits - they're too well designed and equiped and this thing didn't have the budget to make anything like them. The locations were interesting too. It looked like they found a series of springs with dried minerals, and the cave was real too, so where the hell did they shoot this, and how did they get those suits?

spiderwebs on mars

Thanks for posting this. Fun to watch.

It was fun to watch and see how science fiction/horror was created and became a genre.

I liked the characters in this, except for the trigger-happy ways of the young man. It's a bit slow, but I like the ending. Shout out to John Carradine.

I love these treasures of science fiction past. Yes we can go on about tech, walking through miles of sand while worried about running out of oxygen and so many other things but it's a 1965 B movie, not a documentary! To be enjoyed as such. I watch it with the same kind of thoughts the Rifftrax guys would narrate, never stops giving!

Back in the 1970s, WBFF in Baltimore showed certain ultra crappy cheap sci Fi flicks not made by American International or Universal which other local uhf stations didn't This and "Creation of the Humanoids" were among them. I wonder if the films were made available for airing by the station at a cheaper deal than the more well known and popular films made by the major studios. The station's budget might have made it necessary. This flick is lousy as hell yet enjoyable for some odd reason I can't put my finger on! Just goes to show ya never know, in show biz. Thanks for this!

MST3000, here we come

I thought I was really on a spaceship orbiting Mars. If this flick wasn’t tacky it wouldn’t be entertaining. The fact that it was before we left Earths orbit makes it educational in that it’s basically what we thought it might be like with 60’s technology being the only limitation of our imaginations. Priceless

Wow, guy is rowing in side that cave and they not moving one inch. Low budget movies of the time🤦‍♂️. Nice to see the tech at the time.

Unlikely the exhaust from a rocket engine would generate smoke in space.

AwSoME many thanks for posting 🖖👽

The clock was most definitely not a Timex clock😢 took a lickin and quit tickin!! 😂😂😂😂😊😊😊

I was 5 back then, Mars was still unknown, many people really thought there were aliens from Mars, even the moon was mysterious back then, at least the darkside.

The martian cobwebs kill me.

Someone found a deal at a yard sale for some used race car helmets and thought , " Hmmm...A space movie ? " . :O)

It is utterly horrible, but I am tied in chair being forced to watch it for not picking a better one.

Damn this film for convincing people that the gravity, and temperature are the same as Earths.

Good ole Classic Sci-Fi ....⭐️⭐️⭐️

I love how their periscope views have marked grids with N/S/E/W coordinates. In outer space?

Very Funny Ziggy and David Spiders from Mars😂 Plus I think those cobwebs were on loan from The Munster's house!

Thank you so much for the movie

Ha ha ha ha ha, I'm loving it. Their helmits dont have any glass face masks to protect them, or give them any oxygen support.

This is the kind of movie that you took a girl to a drive-in to see and watched from the back seat. The only way to view this thing. With your eyes shut.

13:30 -- 13:34 " ... is there?" This is a terrific line, delivered perfectly, and seems scientifically possible due to atmospheric pressure, but it also sounds like someone suggesting that "reversing the polarity" will work.

As bad as it gets, but like a train wreck couldn't stop watching!!!

4:22 😂😂 the "N" "E" "S" "W" compass-heading grid really adds a 'certain je ne sais quoi' to celestial navigation! Or 'je ne sais où!' Heh heh heh

Sooo… This is The Wizard of Mars, or… Horrors of the Red Planet?? 😂 Love it!

"I've never seen anything so beautiful".... cut to some brown rocks.

fact- someone in the movie industry bentover and was spurred by a martian and now this movie was inspired such genius

As a watchmaking instructor, imagine my delight at the ending! Thank you Filmix!!!

What is north in space?

Well that was an interesting watch not really what i expected, and the connection to L F Baum's OZ stories is very teneous if indeed there is a connection. In saying that this was still an enjoyable watch especially when Mr Carradine turned up thank you for posting.

The best part of this movie is in it's last 20 minutes, in the 3rd act where it becomes good science fiction

It can NEVER be a good SCI-FI movie without a Theremin in the background!

Filmed in PinkoVision!

Definitely OLD SCHOOL classic Sci Fi!

This movie made "Attack of the Mushroom People" Oscar Material.

This movie is old but gold .its art.

I always like how everyone had a periscope! 😅

One thing in common with all these early science fiction movies is a really sudden ending !

In 1965 they really believed there was water on Mars?!

Why does the title of the movie say "Horrors of the Red Planet" while your video title is "The Wizard of Mars"?

We’ll it’s better than The Crystal Skull.