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“What remains surprising about Byron Haskin’s Mars so many years later is how, in its starkly inhospitable view of the planet, it dashes all hope of an exotic world worth exploring and presents a grounded view of a practically uninhabitable planet. Transposing Daniel Defoe’s literary masterpiece from a tropical island to an extraterrestrial wasteland of unexpected verisimilitude, Robinson Crusoe on Mars quickly dispenses with the more adventurous aspects of survival and uses its setting to explore themes of isolation and loneliness. It masterfully dramatizes the discovery that outer space is not a playground for adventure but a vast, cold, oppressive emptiness.”

- 2013 Alamo Drafthouse review of the 1964 movie, Robinson Crusoe On Mars

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