Film Based On War Between Planets

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 99, 20 January 1939, Page 14

Film Based On War Between Planets

TTNIVERSAL Pictures’ latest feature L picture, “Mars Attacks the World,” went into production more than a year ago, and has been in assembly ever since Heading the cast i« Larry “Buster” Crabbe, with Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton, Frank Shannon and Beatrice Roberts in support. The story was written by Ray Trampe, Norman S. Hall and Wyndham Gittens, based on the newspaper feature, “Flash Gordon.” An elaboration of the serial, the film, “Mars Attacks the World,” depicts an attempt by Martians, inhabitants of our sister planet, to destroy the earth by means of a ray. The wierd methods of warfare of the Martians form a thrilling series of scenes, which, however, are led to a reassuring climax. The opposing forces of the world are headed by a young earth scientist. They outwit the interplanetary destroyers at their own game, and are able to return to their cheering fellow humans, who respond with a ''“Lindbergh welcome.”

PJONRAD VEIDT, star of “The Spy in Black,” did without a shave one morning so that he could shave in the film. This he had to do with- cold water and an open razor before the driving mirror of his motor-bike.