| 词条 | A Message from Mars (1921 film) |
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| name = A Message from Mars | image = A_Message_from_Mars_(1921)_-_Ad_3.jpg | alt = | caption = Advertising for A Message from Mars on The Film Daily (April 17, 1921). | director = Maxwell Karger | producer = | writer = Arthur Zellner Arthur Maude | screenplay = | story = | based on = {{based on|A Message from Mars|Richard Ganthony}} | starring = Bert Lytell Raye Dean Maude Milton | narrator = | music = | cinematography = Arthur Martinelli | editing = | studio = Metro Pictures | distributor = Metro Pictures | released = {{Film date|1921|4|11|US|ref1=[1]}} | runtime = 6 reels | country = United States | language = Silent film (English intertitles)}}A Message from Mars is a 1921 American silent fantasy comedy film directed by Maxwell Karger and starring Bert Lytell, Raye Dean, and Maude Milton. It is based on the 1899 play with the same name by Richard Ganthony. The film was released by Metro Pictures on April 11, 1921.[2][3][4] PlotWealthy young Horace Parker, who is an egoist agrees to financing a communicating device which allows for communicating with Mars. He is credited for the invention and he studies his plans rather than go to a party with his fiancée, Minnie. After falling asleep, a messenger from Mars appears to Parker who announces his intentions to convert Parker (who according to the messenger is the earth's most selfish man). Parker is then shown poverty and suffering by the messenger and Parker also overhears Minnie's reporval of him at the party. Parker awakens in a house fire inside the home of a soldier's home that he once refused help to. Parker ends up rescuing the woman and invites her and other unfornute people to his home which also pleases his fiancée.[5] ProductionA Message from Mars was shot at Metro's studio on 61st Street in Manhattan. No art director is credited for the film; M.P. Staulcup or Lester J. Vermilyea are held up as likely candidates by historian Richard Koszarski, as both were known to work on Metro's New York films.[6]Cast
PreservationA print is prepared and preserved by MGM.[7] References1. ^{{cite web | url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/10736?cxt=filmography | title=A Message from Mars | publisher=American Film Institute | accessdate=December 20, 2017 | archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6vrnFPnwb?url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/10736?cxt=filmography | archivedate=2017-12-21 | dead-url=no | df= }} 2. ^{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/10736|title=A Message from Mars|work=afi.com|accessdate=14 January 2018}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/a-message-from-mars-v228846|title=A Message from Mars|work=AllMovie|accessdate=14 January 2018}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/3038/A-Message-From-Mars/|title=A Message from Mars|work=TCM.com|accessdate=14 January 2018}} 5. ^{{cite web | url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/10736?cxt=filmography | title=A Message from Mars | publisher=American Film Institute | accessdate=December 20, 2017 | archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6vrnFPnwb?url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/10736?cxt=filmography | archivedate=2017-12-21 | dead-url=no | df= }} 6. ^Koszarski, Richard. Hollywood on the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff. Rutgers University Press, 2008. p 114. 7. ^American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: A Message from Mars External links
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