Overlooked Movies: Robinson Crusoe on Mars

I've been hearing good things about a new book called The Martian, and I was reminded of this movie, which I saw in the theater long ago.  We've learned a lot about Mars since then, and we know that nearly nothing in this movie is possible. That doesn't mean it's not still fun, though.

Paul Mantee plays Draper, the survivor of a space accident.  Adam West plays the other astronaut, but he's in the movie only briefly.  He doesn't survive.  A monkey named Mona does, though, and makes the movie more fun.  

Draper learns how to survive on Mars and eventually finds himself a man Friday, an alien enslaved by other aliens.  There's some cat-and-mousing as the masters try to retrieve their slave, and the canals of Mars come into play.  

I can't guarantee you'll like this movie as much as I did when I first saw it, but you might if you can put aside your disbelief for a while.  It has a very high rating on Rotten Tomatoes, if that matters to you.