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.
