![]() ![]() Always Know a Pilot: Caulfield hires crop duster Albain to search for astronaut Charles Brubaker.Aerial Canyon Chase: A chase over the Sierras, rather distinctly using numerous shots from behind the plane in a chasing camera.Then, when the empty spacecraft burns up on re-entry due to a defective heat shield - or so NASA says - the astronauts realize that they know too much and decide to make a run for it. Then when Caulfield interviews Brubaker's wife Kay ( Brenda Vaccaro), her reaction to something strange Brubaker said helps him realize that there's some sort of Government Conspiracy at work. But Elliot is killed, and he's been made an Un-person. The spacecraft is launched empty, and the crew are taken to a remote Air Force base, where they are forced to act out the Mars landing in a studio for the benefit of television cameras.Įlliot Whitter (Robert Walden), one of the technicians at mission control, notices something strange – that the television signals are being transmitted ahead of the telemetry – and tells his reporter friend Robert Caulfield ( Elliott Gould). James Kelloway ( Hal Holbrook) informs them, a poorly made life-support system that would have killed the astronauts three weeks into their trip means they'll have to fake it, as Congress can't afford another screw-up. Simpson) are the crew for the first manned mission to Mars, Capricorn One. One of the most entertaining '70's-flicks out there.A 1978 American thriller film written and directed by Peter Hyams, Inspired by… the various conspiracy theories surrounding the Apollo 11 moon landing.Īstronauts Charles Brubaker ( James Brolin), Peter Willis ( Sam Waterston), and John Walker ( O. Karen Black and Telly Savalas also make some small, almost cameo like appearances in this movie. Perhaps it's true though that the movie is lacking a clear main character and the movie isn't always clear with on which character it is going to focus with its main plot. The movie also has a pretty nice cast with Elliott Gould, Hal Holbrook, James Brolin, Sam Waterston and O.J. ![]() It also had some real nice camera-work by Bill Butler. ![]() It's a really well made movie, that got directed with lots of pace by Peter Hyams, who has always been at his best directing action stuff, even though most of his movies aren't exactly among the greatest, this one not included. What also really uplifts the movie and its action and entertainment value is the great musical score by Jerry Goldsmith. But of course as you can expect from an '70's movie, there also is plenty of action involving cars and other great action stuff. No way they'll ever do a sequences like that again now days, with all those heavy regulations for stunts and of course the availability of CGI this present time. The plane and helicopters chase in this movie is pretty insane and was obviously very dangerous for all of those involved with it. It's a movie that I have always enjoyed watching and always will. It's such a great and entertaining movie that you're basically willing to forgive everything that is less great about it. It doesn't always make the movie the most believable one to watch out there but in this particular case that hardly matters at all. It's really mainly the concept and main story that makes this movie an interesting one as well as entertaining. ![]() It's a movie with a conspiracy story but luckily the movie decides to be more entertaining with it than heavy or serious really. It has a lot of elements in it that always make '70's movies such great ones to watch. The movie has a really great premise, that provides the movie with plenty of thriller elements and action. It makes this movie one of my favorite movies to watch from the '70's. Even though this certainly isn't the best movie you'll ever see, it's still a movie that is a perfectly entertaining one. ![]()
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