D-DAY ON MARS (1945, 1966) – Obviously, the Sixth of June marks the solemn remembrance of World War Two’s Normandy Invasion, but I did my annual salute recently. For today I’m reviewing D-Day on Mars, the edited down feature film version of the 1945 serial The Purple Monster Strikes.
During the 1960s, various studios truncated their old 1940s and 1950s movie serials down into feature film length and released them on television. For instance, the Commando Cody serial Radar Men from the Moon was edited down into the telefilm Retik the Moon Menace and Zombies of the Stratosphere was edited down into Satan’s Satellites.
In 1966 D-Day on Mars was broadcast as a very, very shortened version of The Purple Monster Strikes.
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