Flight to Mars

A spacecraft carrying four scientists and a reporter crashes on Mars, leaving the crew stranded with a damaged rocket. They are greeted by Martians who appear friendly, but the visitors soon find themselves caught between the planet's inhabitants and their own need to return home. The Martians are a civilization living beneath the surface, and their intentions turn out to be less welcoming than they first seemed, setting up a conflict over the stranded ship and the fate of the Earth crew.

Flight to Mars is a 1951 American science fiction thriller directed by Lesley Selander, the fifth of the fourteen films he directed in chronological order, following Rustlers and preceding Gunplay. Arthur Strawn wrote the screenplay, Walter Mirisch produced, and the cast includes Arthur Franz as Dr. Jim Barker, Virginia Huston as Carol Stafford, Cameron Mitchell as Steve Abbott, John Litel, Richard Gaines and Morris Ankrum as Ikron. The film was produced by Monogram Pictures and runs 72 minutes.

It has a rating of 5.1 out of 10 on IMDb from around 1,600 votes and 5.2 out of 10 on TMDB from a much smaller number of 37 votes, indicating modest and limited audience approval across both platforms.