ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS (1964) / ENEMY MINE (1985) Really lost in space

ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS sounds like it would be the goofiest film of all time, but it’s actually pretty good - saved, if not by great acting, by an inventive script and excellent special effects. Paul Mantee plays the Crusoe-esque character whose ship crash-lands on Mars. Takes everything he’s got, plus the help of an alien Man Friday, to stay in the pink on the Red Planet. Cut from similar sci-fi cloth is ENEMY MINE, about an Earth soldier (Dennis Quaid) stranded on an alien world. Eventually he encounters another survivor (Louis Gossett, Jr.), and the two enemies eventually bond out of necessity. Both films give new meaning to the phrase, "Best friend in the whole world."