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Director:
Robert Altman
Writers:
Loring Mandel (writer)
Hank Searls (novel)
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Release Date:
February 1968 (USA) more
Genre:
Sci-Fi | Thriller more
Tagline:
The motion picture that puts a man on the moon ... and you will follow him every terrifying second of the way ... more
Plot:
Desperate to reach the moon first, NASA sends a man and shelter separately, one-way. He must find it to survive; he can't return until Apollo is ready. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast

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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.)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
101 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
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. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: When explaining the medical telemetry to Mickey Stegler, the doctor says one plot is respiration and another is breathing, even though both words mean the same thing. Also, several of the plots have completely different shapes from what they should. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "The Directors: The Films of Robert Altman (#2.9)" (2001) more

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4 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
More Real Than You Might Think, 9 December 2000
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Author: XPDay (cpday@bestweb.net) from South Salem NY

It's interesting that I initially had the same reaction as "anonymous" did to the lunar lander depicted in the movie. Sure, it looks like a Gemini capsule stuck on top of a descent stage, but guess what? When Altman made this movie, NASA actually had already planned the "Countdown" mission AND the Gemini lunar lander, although it was never used.

BTW, I read Hank Searl's book "The Pilgrim Project" while I was in eighth grade and loved it.

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