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Jeff Tracy is driving Brains up the wall by demanding he design a spectacular new rescue vehicle, a Thunderbird 6, and then constantly rejecting all his efforts. Still, at least Brains got further with an airline company when he designed a revolutionary airship for them. Lady Penelope and some of the International Rescue crew are the honoured guests on the maiden round-the-world flight but sinister forces are at work and a plan is put into action that may leave Jeff with only his brand-new Thunderbird 6. If he evers accepts one of Brain's designs, that is.
Title: Thunderbird 6
Release Date: August 03, 1968
Runtime: 89 mins
Genre: Family
All Genres: Family, Sci-Fi
Languages: English
Country: UK
Colors: Color
Sound: Mono
IMDB Rating: 6.0
Brimstone Pit Rating: 7 - (Rate This Horror Movie)
Category: Horror Movies Starting With T
MPAA Rating: G
Director(s):
David Lane
Cast:
Peter Dyneley ...Jeff Tracy (voice)
Sylvia Anderson ...Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward (voice)
Shane Rimmer ...Scott Tracy (voice)
Jeremy Wilkin ...Virgil Tracy / Hogarth (voice)
Matt Zimmerman ...Alan Tracy / Carter (voice)
David Graham ...Gordon Tracy / Brains / Aloysius Parker (voice)
Keith Alexander ...John Tracy / Narrator (voice)
Gary Files ...The Hood (Black Phantom) / Captain Foster (I)...
Christine Finn ...Tin-Tin / Indian Fortune-teller (voice)
John Carson ...Captain Foster (II) (voice)
Geoffrey Keen ...James Glenn (voice)
Remaining Cast:
Producer(s):
Sylvia Anderson
Gerry Anderson
Writer(s):
Gerry Anderson
Sylvia Anderson
Composer(s):
Barry Gray
Movie Quote(s):
- Brains: I thought it would be a good idea, in this day and age of speed and... thing like that, to build an... airship. New World Aircraft President James Glenn: An airship? An *airship*? [laughter erupts in the meeting room]
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Virgil Tracy: [referring to the Tiger Moth inside the pod] I've got a Tiger in my tank.
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Jeff Tracy: Now, let's have a rundown on the International Rescue craft. So far, there are five. Thunderbird 1: sleek, first and fast. Thunderbird 2: giant transporter. Carries all the rescue gear to the danger zone. Thunderbird 3: designed for space rescue. Thunderbird 4: capable of withstanding the pressure of the depths. Thunderbird 5: space monitor. Capable of receiving or intercepting distress calls from any part of the world. And I'm telling you, Brains, in no uncertain terms, that we now need a Thunderbird 6. Brains: Sure, Mr Tracy, but can you give me some sort of a steer? I like to work to a specification. Jeff Tracy: Specification? You didn't need to work to a specification when you designed that airship for the New World Aircraft Corporation. Brains: That's right. I didn't. And what happened? They laughed. Jeff Tracy: Yeah, that's right. They laughed... and then they built it.
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Narrator: A beautiful island in the Pacific, secret base of International Rescue, so far undetected. Outwardly, the luxury home of millionaire ex-astronaut Jeff Tracy.
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Movie Trivia:
- Production on this film began after Gerry Anderson began work on "Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons" (1967), a series that used far more realistic-looking Supermarionation puppets. Anderson reportedly considered making Thunderbird Six in the same style, but decided for reasons of continuity to retain the big-head style of puppets for the film. Apparently, some of the new style puppets are visible in some scenes.
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The puppet of Cliff Richard (used in the film Thunderbirds Are GO (1966) makes a cameo appearance, disguised with thick-rimmed glasses and a mustache, sitting behind Lady Penelope at the Whistle Stop Inn.
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Following filming of a flying stunt on M40 motorway in Buckinghamshire (which was newly completed but not yet open to traffic) Joan Hughes (pilot of the Tiger Moth) was charged but later acquitted of seven counts of dangerous flying when the 'plane failed to make contact with the surface of the while passing under a bridge. A crosswind had prevented Hughes from landing the plane on the road before passing under the bridge as stipulated as a condition of permission to use the location. Norman Foster (who supervised the shooting of this scene) was also charged but acquitted of three counts of aiding and abetting. In addition to the court case filming permission was revoked immediately, leading to the sequence being completed with a miniature set of the site and the model aircraft used for other flying sequences.
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During the evacuation of the missile base, one of the cars driving through shot is Sam Loover's car from Joe 90. Footage of the destruction of the missile base also appears in the opening episode of Joe 90.
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The International Rescue passengers on Sky Ship One overfly and visit numerous locations previously visited by IR in the TV series - they overfly the Atlantic Ocean ("Thunderbirds: Operation Crash-Dive (#1.12)" (1965) and "Thunderbirds: Atlantic Inferno (#2.1)" (1966)); have breakfast over the now-Empire State Building-less Manhattan ("Thunderbirds: Terror in New York City (#1.4)" (1965)); fly over the Grand Canyon ("Thunderbirds: Brink of Disaster (#1.22)" (1966)); hunt in Africa ("Thunderbirds: Pit of Peril (#1.2)" (1965), complete with a few music cues from the episode); visit Egypt ("Thunderbirds: Desperate Intruder (#1.8)" (1965)) and ("Thunderbirds: The Uninvited (#1.10)" (1965)) and have dinner at a hotel in the Swiss Alps ("Thunderbirds: The Cham-Cham (#1.25)" (1966)).
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Keywords:
Supermarionation, Puppet, Kids And Family, Number In Title ...[more]
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Rating: 7.0 out of 10.0 - 71 votes cast total
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