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Title: Parts of This Film Are True To a Great Book
Review: The Martian Chronicles is one of my favorite books. This made-for-TV movie is one of the only film adaptations I'm aware of. Staring Rock Hudson, the film has a fairly good cast. Not heavy on special effects, the set design is outstanding in representing Martian design and architecture. You simply feel like the sets potrayed could have been the remains of a past civilization.Despite the book being rather short, the screen play writers felt they had some better ideas to offer, which doesn't really hold true. The first chapter----The Explorations, holds pretty true to the book, but then drfts a bit. But the first hour or so do make this worth watching and the newly created scenes have some value in and of themselves.
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