WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

O2D This is the worst movie I have seen in a long time, which is saying a lot.Four astronauts are going to Mars and the trip is very boring.They spew mumbo jumbo and look through periscopes and it's so poorly acted and slow moving that you can't even laugh at it.They crash land on Mars and then they just make up a bunch of stuff and decide roaming the planet blindly is the best thing to do.Some decent special effects could have helped but they went for the worst effects ever.They just use a weird red and yellow filter for everything on Mars.It looks so stupid that doing nothing at all would have looked better.Of course Mars is mostly tight shots and it always looks like the south west United States.They literally spend a third of the movie floating in rafts on what looks like the lazy river at your local water park.Never see this.

Tracy Winters Four dips on a spaceship which looks like a grade school pencil sharpener land on Mars, even though they weren't supposed to (they were only going to take photos to make a map).Once 'our heroes' get their heads out of their butts, they can explore the surface. The crew consists of a lame commander, a co-pilot who could pass for one of the Bowery Boys, a chick with a dubbed voice, and a hairy Mexican.These half-wits cross a pond, get caught in a cave, and almost become roasted when they try to pass through a valley of fire. Unfortunately, they survive all of this and reach a deserted city. It is here where they meet the disembodied head of John Carradine (who else?).Cheap movie cost about $1.75 to make. Cool 'space music', though.

mrb1980 Classic "bad" sci-fi includes movies like "Queen of Outer Space", "Attack of the 50-Ft. Woman", and "The Brain from Planet Arous". These films have lots of action, actors who are at least moderately known to the public, and decent production values and direction. Sad to say, "The Wizard of Mars" has none of these and can't even qualify as campy. Simply put, it's a really poor movie that's not even good for laughs...and it also made me wonder how and why it was made in the first place, and why anyone would have gone to see it when it was released.The future year is 1975, and a band of brave astronauts is approaching Mars in what looks like a modified 1960s station wagon with a periscope. After a few "scary" encounters with apparent meteors, the craft crash-lands on Mars, and the astronauts are--gasp--stranded. The rest of the film consists of the marooned crew walking...and walking...and walking some more. They have a couple of lame encounters with alien life forms before they find pavement made of yellow bricks (see where we're headed here?).The yellow brick road, at least in this movie, leads our intrepid space travelers to an old castle-type building that is inhabited by extremely unconvincing alien creatures in plastic tubes, accompanied by the ghostly image of none other than John Carradine. Carradine has a really incomprehensible conversation with the spaceship crew, then instructs them to tinker with a giant brass timepiece. The ancient clock starts working, the building starts to crumble, and the crew members suddenly find themselves back on their ship, as though nothing ever happened.Most "Mars movies" have entertaining aliens, some interaction between crew members, and musings about other worlds. This movie just consists of the unknown cast wandering around for what seems like an eternity. The ending is so lame, and so illogical that, after the movie is over, the viewer just wants to ask, "what?".Most minor movies I can at least recommend as mindless time-fillers. This one is so boring that I can't even do THAT.

pnunes68 I remember seeing this movie as a kid on the "Sunday Afternoon" movie on the local station in the late 70's, but I couldn't remember the title. I knew it had to be from the 60's so IMDb helped me narrow the possibilities. The key was I remembered the astronauts finding a "Golden" road under the desert, so the "Wizard" title grabbed my eye.A Google search brought some web sites that fully describe the movie and show screen shots.I am a bit disappointed now that the actual movie does not live up to my memories of it. I remember it being kinda spooky and strange, but now it seems really stupid.I would like to see it again, too bad there doesn't seem to be a DVD yet. I wonder if it is on any movie compilation set of "B" movies.Paul