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Countdown is a american film of genre Science fiction directed by William Conrad released in USA on 1 may 1968 with James Caan
Countdown (1967)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 1 may 1968
Length 1h37
OriginUSA
Themes Space adventure films, Sur la Lune, Films based on science fiction novels, Political films, Space opera
Rating58%
Countdown is a 1968 science fiction film directed by Robert Altman, based on the novel The Pilgrim Project by Hank Searls. It stars James Caan and Robert Duvall as astronauts vying to be the first American to walk on the Moon as part of a crash program to beat the Soviet Union.
Synopsis
In the late 1960s, astronauts training in an Apollo simulator have their session ended early. They grumble about it, but their commander, Chiz (Robert Duvall), knows the reason for the abort: the Pilgrim Program. The Russians will be sending a moon landing mission up in four weeks. The Americans had a secret alternate plan to the Apollo program (Pilgrim) in case this happened. One man would be sent to the moon in a one-way rocket, a modified Project Gemini craft. He would stay on the moon for a few months in a shelter pod launched and landed before him. Later, a manned Apollo mission would come to retrieve him.Actors
James Caan
(Lee Stegler)
Joanna Moore
(Mickey Stegler)
Robert Duvall
(Chiz)
Barbara Baxley
(Jean)
Michael Murphy
(Rick)
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