Suffice to say, Capricorn One performed reasonably well at the box office.
#Capricorn one hd movie#
Jerry Goldsmith was on fire as the best score writer in the business, the movie had a substantial budget to play with and a number of memorable chase sequences. Simpson among the greatest football players and wooden actors of his generation and the wise cracking Telly Savalas hamming it up, Capricorn One was brimming with acting talent. With Elliot Gould wielding the star power best seen in his Robert Altman movies, O.J. Coming after crime/spy thrillers Busting and Telefon he got a chance to film a script he had written several years before. In science fiction and thriller scriptwriter/director Peter Hyams’s 40 year career, Capricorn One was probably the high point. For NASA, funding cuts were bringing an end to the golden age of American space exploration: Voyager 2 had been launched the year before and was on its way towards the outer Solar System, the Viking Missions had been rousing successes on Mars, Skylab was sitting in orbit embarrassing the Russians and the old Saturn rockets had yet to be replaced by the new and exciting Space Shuttle Program. This, and the counter culture generation, led to a rash of highly paranoid movies ( The Conversation, All The President’s Men, Soylent Green) and a deep cynicism when it came to government. Politically, America was still living in the shadow of a bungled hotel burglary in ’72 and the resulting impeachment proceedings. When Rocky beat All The Presidents Men for Best Picture Oscar in ‘76, the writing was on the wall for the generation affectionately called the Movie Brats the last years of their efforts, before they were finally killed off by the staggering failure of Heaven’s Gate, have been mostly forgotten. Capricorn One was already something of a relic, a little too slow and thoughtful for a modern SF blockbuster - the classic years for intelligent thrillers in the early 70’s ( The French Connection, Klute, Marathon Man, Deliverance, Chinatown) were over… A huge rubber shark had lunged onto a little fishing boat and failed to eat Richard Dreyfuss, but managed to eat Francis Ford Coppola instead. Carter was in the White House Callaghan was in No 10. It was 1978, the year I was born Capricorn One emerged in the shadow of ’77’s massive SF blockbusters: Lucas’s Star Wars and Spielberg’s Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. This accident, when you put it in the context of the shuttle's history, fits into a plot that's predictable.” Admiral Hal Gehman, Chair of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (2). The board felt very strongly that this … was not a random anomalous event. The board felt that in order to understand this accident that you have to understand the history of the shuttle. Essentially they emphasized cost and schedule and things like that… And de-emphasized good engineering and research and development and safety. “Over the years, the space shuttle program has changed its organizational structure due to outside forces… They emphasized effectiveness and efficiency. Themselves stranded in the desert around a downed jet, running from black helicopters that gather in the skies.
With an investigative reporter chasing the story back in civilisation, the astronauts find When a NASA employee vanishes without trace, his life erased, and the astronauts deaths are announced to the world things begin to spiral. Their mission is a lie, and after being flown to an Arizona airbase the crew find themselves manipulated into performing a show - a faked mission in a warehouse mock-up of the Red Planet – in a frantic attempt to save NASA’s funding from disaster. Simpson, Hal Holbrook, Telly SavalasĪs the moment of takeoff approaches for America’s First Mission to Mars the crew of 3 astronauts are ordered to the ground by a mysterious man wearing a black suit. James Kelloway, played by Hal Holbrook (1)Ĭast: Elliot Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro, O.J. You have my every good wish." His every good wish!” Dr. They're looking for a reason to cancel the program. Writer/Director: Peter Hyams “He sat there two months ago and put his feet up on Woodrow Wilson's desk, and he said, "Jim.
Conspiracies, bureaucracies and cover-ups - a tale of Watergate, NASA and political evil.
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