I watched the B-movie-sci-fi-cult-classic-psychotronic-film The Angry Red Planet last night. As is usually the case with these types of movies bad acting, giant plot holes, and primitive special effects can have a certain charm (well, for me anyway) and in that regard The Angry Red Planet is very charming. But CBH isn't a blog about such things so I'll share some comic book-related details from the film. Joe Kubert cohort Norman Maurer (a personal favorite underated artist) is one of the Executive Producers of the film. Alex Toth is credited as the storyboard artist (and I would guess the designer of the weird rat-bat critter seen above in my favorite sequence from the movie -- it certainly looks like something out of a Jonny Quest episode). And the lead actor, Gerald Mohr, voiced Mr. Fantastic for the late sixties Fantastic Four cartoon program while doing the same for the Green Lantern on The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure. It's just a comic book world.
You can read a funny review of The Angry Red Planet here.
You can watch the entire movie online or just watch the trailer here (I have no idea how long this link will be good).
4 comments:
That's one of my favorite movies. It scared the hell out of me when I was little, and I've liked it ever since, for sheer silliness, if nothing else. I didn't know Alex Toth was a designer, but the dreaded spider-bat-mousie critter really does look like something he'd come up with. Thanks for the info!
That bat thing freaked me out and I'm almost fifty!
Gerald Mohr seems to pop up a lot in B-movie credits. Is he any relation to present day comedian Jay Mohr? It's not exactly a super-common name.
No relation so far as I know or could determine using the Amazing Internet.
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