After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it will hit it will cause a incredible catastrophe which will probably extinguish mankind. To stop the meteor NASA wants to use the illegal nuclear weapon satellite "Hercules" but discovers soon that it doesn't have enough fire power. Their only chance to save the world is to join forces with the USSR who have also launched such an illegal satellite. But will both governments agree?
Movie Tagline:
There's No Place On Earth To Hide!
Title: Meteor
Release Date: October 19, 1979
Runtime: 107 mins
Genre: Drama
All Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Languages: English, Russian
Country: USA
Colors: Color
Sound: 4-Track Stereo
IMDB Rating: 4.7
Brimstone Pit Rating: 5.7 - (Rate This Horror Movie)
Category: Horror Movies Starting With M
MPAA Rating: PG
Director(s):
Ronald Neame
Cast:
Sean Connery ...Dr. Paul Bradley
Natalie Wood ...Tatiana Nikolaevna Donskaya
Karl Malden ...Harry Sherwood, NASA
Brian Keith ...Dr. Alexei Dubov
Martin Landau ...Major General Adlon
Trevor Howard ...Sir Michael Hughes
Richard Dysart ...Secretary of Defense
Henry Fonda ...The President
Joseph Campanella ...Lt. Gen. Easton
Bo Brundin ...Rolf Manheim
Katherine De Hetre ...Jan Watson
James G. Richardson ...Alan Marshall
Roger Robinson ...Bill Hunter
Michael Zaslow ...Sam Mason
John McKinney ...Peter Watson
John Findlater ...Astronaut Tom Easton
Paul Tulley ...Astronaut Bill Frager
Allen Williams ...Astronaut Michael McKendrick
Bibi Besch ...Helen Bradley
Gregory Gaye ...Russian Premier (as Gregory Gay)
Clyde Kusatsu ...yamashiro
Burke Byrnes ...Coast Guard Officer
Joseph G. Medalis ...Bartender (as Joe Medalis)
Charles Bartlett ...Guard
Raymond O'Keefe ...Guard
Henry Olek ...Army Captain
Peter Bourne ...UN President
Stanley Mann ...Canadian U.N. Representative
Ronald Neame ...British U.N. Representative
Philip Sterling ...Russian U.N. Representative
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Producer(s):
Sandy Howard
Gabriel Katzka
Arnold H. Orgolini
Theodore R. Parvin
Run Run Shaw
Writer(s):
Stanley Mann
Edmund H. North
Edmund H. North
Composer(s):
Laurence Rosenthal
More Movie Taglines:
- There's No Place On Earth To Hide!
Movie Quote(s):
- Dr. Paul Bradley: Why don't you stick a broom up my ass? I can sweep the carpet on the way out.
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Tatiana Donskaya: One day you will come to Moscow and I will show you a clean subway.
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Dr. Alexei Dubov: [Demonstrating the only toast he knows in English] Fuck the Dodgers.
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Movie Trivia:
- Re-rated "PG" on appeal after originally being rated "R" by the MPAA.
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Some of the background radio chatter in the Hercules control room is taken from recordings of Apollo missions.
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Some of the avalanche footage (the skier in red) is from the movie Avalanche (1978)
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Premiered on the floor of Meteor Crater in Arizona. This is also the site where the astronauts practiced their moonwalk and where the mother ship picked up Jeff Bridges in the movie, Starman (1984).
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The "spaceship" the astronauts were in was actually a model of NASA's first manned space station "Skylab".
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Keywords:
Satellite, Comet, NASA, Russia, President ...[more]
Keywords All:
Disaster Film, Beautiful Woman, Statue Of Liberty, Coast Guard, News Conference, Helicopter, Brooklyn Bridge, Disaster, Space, Bar, Flashback, Cold War, Meteor Threatens Earth, Sailboat, Title Spoken By Character
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Rating: 5.7 out of 10.0 - 70 votes cast total
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