These Martian survival movies are generally pretty good. A similar one is
"Countdown", an early Robert Duvall flick where the US tries to beat the USSR
to the moon by sending a modified Mercury capsule on a one-way trip to the
moon, where a survival shelter good for one year is waiting. It's based on the
1964 novel "The Pilgrim Project" by Hank Searls.
>
> Now that takes me back, Chris. I saw "Robinson Crusoe on Mars" in its
>original theatrical release when I was about 10 years old. It was
>impressive to my young self.
>
>Charlie
>
>On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>
>> On weekends here one of the broadcast movie channels will show
>> entertaining movies from as far back as the 1930s, a series known as
>> "Popcorn Movies". Today they started with "Robinson Crusoe on Mars", which
>> is always worth watching. But then they followed it with an obscure one,
>> "Robinson Crusoe of Mystery Island", which was released in 1936. I almost
>> didn't watch this until I saw footage of the airship USS Macon (ZRS-5)
>> being towed out of the hangar at Moffett Field:
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Macon_%28ZRS-5%29
>>
>> Minutes later there is in-flight and landing film footage of a
>> Sikorsky S-42 Flying Boat:
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_S-42
>>
>> and shortly afterwards there is footage of a twin-engined flying boat that
>> I cannot readily identify. It has the lines of a Grumman design, and it
>> has three vertical stabilisers.
>>
>> The movie itself is a bit corny, but seeing these and possibly other
>> aircraft makes it worth watching.
>>
>
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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