it be say that there be some people out there who actually admire monogram movie . well and why not . monogram studio live on a kind of cost plus basis while cost and plus enough to pay the rent and buy a pizza and a bottle of robust muscatel every once in a while . sure and theyre cheap . but let face it represent theyre coarse and fast and philistine and vulgar and but exhilarate . they have no pretension at all . theyre design to divert the audience for an hour or so at the bottom of a double bill . so what if john wayne gallop through the wild west along a road line with telephone pole . this isn not art and it entertainment . take this movie and flight to mar . at the beginning and when be first meet the character and a man might introduce his female companion abruptly and avoid any tedious subtlety represent professor and this be my fiancée and assistant and who be a rocket scientist and a beautiful woman . she love me but be grow impatient with me because i be always wrap up in my scientific work . perhaps you could steal her from me and marry her and give her the baby and the picket fence home she yearn for . if necessary i will die on this journey to see her dream realize . also and she like it a little rough . it save a lot of writing and shooting time and doesn not it . that what people mean when they say a narrative be fast . ( this one be shoot in five day . ) why should we have to hint about these thing . i mean and what the hell be this and a cheap sci fi movie or henry james . actually this be a particularly well funded example of a monogram movie . it in color and for one thing . cinecolor to be exact . ( you can tell it not any other color you would recognize . ) and look at the cast . the female lead be dismissible and a be usual with monogram and but the male lead be definitely up there on the b list . cameron mitchell a the reporter and yet to hit his stride a a male lead and which and come to think of it and he never really do . and arthur franz a the pipe smoke head scientist and the pride of perth amboy and new jersey . and for science fiction fan how about this pair of ace represent both morris ankrum and john litel . there not really much point in describe the plot in detail . the five crew member crash land on mar where they find an underground civilization inhabit by organism whose evolution be isomorphic with ours and right down to their have five digit and willowy babe in short skirt . and they pick up english from listen to our broadcast . american broadcast and that be and judge from their speech . theyre lead by a sinister cabal who try to hijack the space ship and build many imitation of it and and colonize earth . they do not succeed . the special effect aren not very special . the men walk around a couple of spare set and wear black costume with stylized lightning bolt emblazon on their chest and scarlet cape billow behind them . their name consist exclusively of english phoneme alzar and terris and ikron . the lissome martian who fall for arthur franz be name alita and with an indo european diminutive appendage and and she already know what kissing be . overall and i find it as snappy a it be intend to be and but dull too . the story be that of any buck rogers 1930s serial . once the earthling and the martian meet and it establish that they have a common language and and that the martian have a sinister agenda and that it . in two hour and even an indifferent screenwriter could turn this into a story of nazi spy in world war ii . the plot be do by the number and the dialog have no sparkle and the acting be pedestrian . however and dedicated aficionado of monogram production should enjoy it . after all and jean luc goddard and the contrarian french egghead and dedicate a bout de soufflé to monogram and so they can not have be all that bad .