Solaris (the novel) came first


For years the inescapable(though, in context, laughable) comparisons between JOURNEY TO THE SEVENTH PLANET usually revolve around the fact that JOURNEY came out a full decade before Tarkovsky's SOLARIS. True enough, but the Lem's novel came out a year before Sid Pink's film.
Still, JOURNEY is worth seeing as a parallel tale done with B Movie glee. Enjoy it on its own scale.

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Another obvious influence on the film would be the Ray Bradbury story 'The Third Expedition' (First published as 'Mars is Heaven' in Planet Stories, Fall 1948) and which appears in the 'Martian Chronicles'

Synopsis from Wikipedia: "When the crew arrives, they see a typical town of the 1920s filled with the long lost loved ones of the astronauts. The Martians have used the memories of the astronauts to lure them into their old houses where they are killed in the middle of the night by the Martians."


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"Look! - it's the Invisible Man!"

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"Mars is Heaven".

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Isn't that what I said?

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"Look! - it's the Invisible Man!"

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Yes. You are correct.

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