The Martian Chronicles
Set in 1999, a group of Martians who are inhabiting Mars are not happy when Earth starts sending groups of people and astronauts to their planet. They start doing horrible things to the humans such us killing the first two astronaunts and then brainwashing another group. The tables are soon turned when Colonel Wilder (Rock Hudson) learns that the chicken pox, brought by some of the previous visitors from Earth, is slowly killing most the Martians. Colonel Wilder then starts to become sympathetic towards their plight and becomes literally consumed with removing the traces of the inhabitants of Earth from Mars.
The exploration of Mars begins with two failed expeditions. Colonel Wilder then leads a crew to discover the secret of Mars - only to find all the Martians dead from chicken pox.
With native Martians wiped out by disease, thousands of humans now colonize the red planet and attempt to create a second Earth.
With Earth destroyed in a nuclear war, Colonel Wilder finds himself alone with his family on Mars. To rebuild what he has lost, Wilder chooses to make Mars his new home.
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Joyce Van Patten | Elma Parkhill |
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Roddy McDowall | Father Stone |
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James Faulkner | Mr. K |
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Bernie Casey | Major Jeff Spender |
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Robert Beatty | General Halstead |
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Bernadette Peters | Genevieve Seltzer |
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Burnell Tucker | Bill Wilder |
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Nicholas Hammond | Commander Arthur Black |
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Darren McGavin | Sam Parkhill |
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Peter Marinker | McClure |
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Fritz Weaver | Father Peregrine |
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Phil Brown | Narrator |
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Rock Hudson | Col. John Wilder |
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Jon Finch | Christ |
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Maria Schell | Anna Lustig |
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John Cassady | Brigg |
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Barry Morse | Peter Hathaway |
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Michael Anderson Jr. | David Lustig |
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Linda Lou Allen | Marilyn Becker |
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Terence Longdon | Wise Martian |
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Anthony Pullen Shaw | Edward Black |
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Gayle Hunnicutt | Ruth Wilder |
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Vadim Glowna | Sam Hinston |
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Christopher Connelly | Ben Driscoll |
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Richard Oldfield | Captain Nathaniel York |
| Director | Michael Anderson |
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| Writer | Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson | |
| Producer | Andrew Donally, Butch Fries, Milton Subotsky, Richard Berg, Charles W. Fries | |
| Musician | Stanley Myers | |
| Photography | Ted Moore | |
| Edition | Full Sub |
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| Packaging | Keep Case |
| Nr Discs | 2 |
| Screen Ratios | Fullscreen (4:3) |
| Audio Tracks | Dolby Digital Mono [English] Dolby Digital Stereo [English] |
| Subtitles | English | English (Closed Captioned) | French | Spanish |
| Distributor | MGM Home Entertainment |
| Layers | Dual side, Single layer |
| Edition Release Date | Sep 07, 2004 |
| Regions | Region 1 |