Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)
Directed by Byron Haskin
Stranded on Mars with only a monkey as a companion, an astronaut must figure out how to find oxygen, water, and food and companionship on the lifeless planet.
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What critics compared Robinson Crusoe on Mars to
Although it is based on the best-selling novel of the same title by computer scientist Andy Weir, Ridley Scott’s The Martian directly evokes a much older movie: Byron Haskin’s Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964), whose sensationalistic tagline “A lone U.S. astronaut pitted against all the odds beyond the earth!” pretty much summarizes both films.
There was even one that combined the two, 1964’s Robinson Crusoe on Mars .
And of course the parallels to Robinson Crusoe - not to mention "Robinson Crusoe on Mars" - were always there.
It’s the opposite of the campy yet compelling 1964 cult film Robinson Crusoe on Mars .
“The Martian” is the ultimate science geeks’ movie, and a more realistic rendering of one of my favorite childhood films, “Robinson Crusoe on Mars,” a 1964 effort from Byron Haskin (“The War of the Worlds”), which is clearly ripe for a remake.
If you don’t know — which seems improbable at this point — The Martian is at its heart a modern sci-fi variant on Robinson Crusoe, which, yes, already had been rather quaintly played with in 1964’s Robinson Crusoe on Mars (a movie best left to childhood memory).