The Wizard of Mars

The Wizard of Mars is a 1965 low budget science fiction film takeoff of L. Frank Baums The Wonderful Wizard of Oz cowritten and directed by stage magician David L. Hewitt. The title character is portrayed by John Carradine, who gives a lengthy monologue as a projection near the end of the film. The film centers on four astronautsSteve Roger Gentry, Doc Vic McGee, Charlie Jerry Rannow, and of course, Dorothy Eve Bernhardt, shown aboard ship wearing Silver Shoeswho dream they are struck by a storm and encounter the Horrors of the Red Planet one of the films video retitlings, and eventually follow a Golden Road to the Ancient City where they encounter the title character, who is the collective consciousness of all Martians.

The film was first acquired for television viewing with the film cut to 78 minutes. Hewitt reacquired the work for a stage show presentation with a variety of special effects used on the audience.In the early 1980s, the film was released on videotape under its original title, by NTA Home Video an imprint of Republic Pictures. It was released as Horrors of the Red Planet in 1988 by Genesis Home Video and later by Burbank Video and Star Classics Home Video. The latter two editions topped the cast list as given on the cover with Lon Chaney, Jr., who did not appear in this film but did appear in Hewitts Doctor Terrors Gallery of Horrors with Carradine, Gentry, and McGee. Also in the early 1980s, Regal Video Inc. released both of these films in identical packaging under the title Alien Massacre. Both films were retitled onscreen, which left Carradines screen credit John Carradine as just before the title, incomplete. ........

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