The Criterion Collection
Directed by: Byron Haskin
Year: 1964
Time: 110 min.
Series: The Criterion Collection
Edition #: 404
Release Date: January 11 2011
MSRP:
$39.95
Blu-ray
1 Disc | BD-50
2.35:1 ratio
English 1.0 PCM Mono
Subtitles: English
Region A
Audio commentary featuring screenwriter Ib Melchior, actors Paul Mantee and Victor Lundin, production designer Al Nozaki, Oscar-winning special effects designer and Robinson Crusoe on Mars historian Robert Skotak, and excerpts from a 1979 audio interview with director Byron Haskin
Destination Mars, a video featurette by filmmaker and space historian Michael Lennick detailing the science behind the film
Music video for Victor Lundin’s song “Robinson Crusoe on Mars”
Stills gallery
Theatrical trailer
A booklet featuring a new essay by Michael Lennick as well as Ib Melchior’s “Brief Yargorian Vocabulary” (a glossary of original alien dialect) and a list of facts about Mars, both from his original screenplay