Forget Matt Damon quipping into the camera: film history’s true Martian can be found in 1964’s Robinson Crusoe on Mars, a delightfully kitsch exploration into man’s relationship with himself – complete with endearingly hokey B-movie effects.

Commander Kit Draper (Paul Mantee) and Colonel Dan McReady (Adam West – yes, that Adam West) are orbiting the red planet in their ship, Gravity Probe One. To avoid a collision with a meteor, they eject in individual space pods onto the planet’s…
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