Long lost memories of this classic movie!
I can only barely remember a few scenes as I saw this on TV in 1980 when I was ten years old:
The one where the crew sets up base near the water
They'd planted 'carrots' or some similar crops
And the crew or the martians started dying?
The weird ray-guns and head gear?
That's all I remember, have I got the right movie???
My young mind wasn't even attuned to how bad the special effects were!
Pity they didn't recolor the sky red, or film in the Aussie desert.