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Horror Movies & Sci-Fi Movies Database
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01.26.09
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The Apollo 3 crew are training when it is discovered that the Russians plan a moon landing. The Americans enact a makeshift plan to land a man on the moon first, using an older style Gemini spacecraft. Lee is chosen as the astronaut instead of Chiz, who was trained for the mission, because Lee has no military connection. Lee has three weeks to train before take-off, and will have to stay on the moon in a shelter for about a year, until an Apollo is ready to pick him up. However the Russians take off two days earlier than expected.
Movie Tagline:
The motion picture that puts a man on the moon ... and you will follow him every terrifying second of the way ...
Title: Countdown
Release Date: February , 1968
Runtime: 101 mins
Genre: Sci-Fi
All Genres: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Languages: English
Country: USA
Colors: Color
Sound: Mono
IMDB Rating: 6.1
Brimstone Pit Rating: 7.1 - (Rate This Horror Movie)
Category: Horror Movies Starting With C
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Director(s):
Robert Altman
Cast:
James Caan ...Lee Stegler
Joanna Moore ...Mickey Stegler
Robert Duvall ...Chiz
Barbara Baxley ...Jean
Charles Aidman ...Gus
Steve Ihnat ...Ross Duellan
Michael Murphy ...Rick
Ted Knight ...Walter Larson
Stephen Coit ...Ehrman
John Rayner ...Dunc
Charles Irving ...Seidel
Bobby Riha ...Stevie Stegler (as Bobby Riha Jr.)
Ray Ballard ...Manager
Arthur Bernard ...Coopersmith
Ivan Bonar ...Nogrady
Betty Bresler ...Ross's Secretary
William Conrad ...TV Newscaster (voice)
Robert Cunningham ...Technician
Ron Doyle ...Reporter
Harry Ellerbe ...Croyden
Mike Farrell ...Houston Engineer
Sharron Frye ...Marion
David Greene ...Technician
Stacy Harris ...Technician
Vincent Howard ...Facility Director
James Johnson ...Technician
Frank Mathias ...Technician
Jana Pearce ...Girl
Bob Peoples ...Reporter
Robert Ridgely ...Little Bob - Guitar player / Singer at party
» [more cast members]
Producer(s):
William Conrad
Jimmy Lydon
Writer(s):
Loring Mandel
Hank Searls
Composer(s):
Leonard Rosenman
More Movie Taglines:
- The motion picture that puts a man on the moon ... and you will follow him every terrifying second of the way ...
- From the director of "The Player" and "Nashville" comes a screen space adventure that's the real stuff.
Movie Trivia:
- Executive Producer William Conrad supplied the TV announcer's voice.
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This film centers on a flight to the Moon in a Gemini spacecraft modified for a lunar landing. In fact, there were several proposals in the mid-1960s to use modified Gemini craft for lunar orbital and even lunar landings, in lieu of or complementing the Apollo flights. They were rejected for various technical, budgetary, and political reasons.
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In later years, director 'Robert Altman' liked to claim that the movie never played in theaters in Los Angeles, but it did.
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Keywords:
Moon, Moon Landing, Astronaut, Training, NASA ...[more]
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Rating: 7.1 out of 10.0 - 70 votes cast total
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