Red Planet Mars (1952)

Director
Harry Horner

Main cast
Peter Graves; Andrea King; Herbert Berghof; Walter Sande; Marvin Miller

Genres
Sci-Fi

Description
Husband-and-wife scientists (Peter Graves, Andrea King) pick up a pie-in-the-sky TV message supposedly from Mars.


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