The picture runs 130 minutes... The story covers 96 of the most critical hours in man's history... The suspense will last through your lifetime!
When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy Stone scrambles to a secure laboratory and tries first to isolate the life form while determining why two people from Piedmont - an old alcoholic and a six-month-old baby - survived. The scientists methodically study the alien life form, unaware that it has already mutated and presents a far greater danger in the lab, which is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device designed to prevent the escape of dangerous biological agents.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Mar 20267/10
When most of the population of a New Mexico town are found dead, scientists are quickly on the scene and discover that there appears to be some sort of lethal pathogen on the loose. Is it natural? A virus? From here or from outer space after a satellite recently crashed nearby? Well fortunately, Uncle Sam has a state of the art facility buried deep underground with five levels of sanitized security where “Stone” (Arthur Hill) and his team can get on the case. What is puzzling them is that two people did survive. An elderly itinerant gent and a newborn baby. Were they just luckily uninfected in the first place or are they immune? More by a process of elimination, they begin to piece together a picture of a living organism, but one that defies many of the conventions of earth-bound physics and as they become more exhausted and frustrated, they also appreciate that the usually reliable security protocols they are using might prove less effective against a substance that can evolve and mutate to adapt to it’s surroundings with alarming speed. Is it the end of mankind or can the “Andromeda” be rendered benign or even destroyed using more unconventional methods? The acting here isn’t ver
Read the whole review on TMDB - John Chardon TMDB · Dec 20188/10
Frighteningly absorbing piece of fiction that's fused with fact. A satellite from the SCOOP project has crashed into the desert town of Piedmont, the SCOOP project basically entails that the satellite scoops outer space for any alien micro-organisms. After the crash all the residents of Piedmont are killed with the exception of a baby and an old gentleman booze hound. Mankind is on the verge of being destroyed by a leaked alien virus, so a crack team of scientists are gathered in the hope of containing and understanding the virus before the world gets devoid of human life! Taken from the novel by Michael Crichton, this film is a wonderful lesson in tension building as we follow the scientists through a carefully structured sci-fi plot that will eventually become a race against time thriller. What makes The Andromeda Strain stand out against other genre pieces is the astute and believable approach to the subject matter, we are (in the main) in the presence of proper scientists. There's no super hero tricks forthcoming from these people, these are sensible honest intelligent folk using their combined knowledge to hopefully save the planet? A masterstroke from the makers is that they
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Cast
- Arthur HillDr. Jeremy Stone
- David WayneDr. Charles Dutton
- James OlsonDr. Mark Hall
- Kate ReidDr. Ruth Leavitt
- Paula KellyKaren Anson
- George MitchellJackson
- Ramon BieriMajor Manchek
- Peter HobbsGeneral Sparks
- Kermit MurdockDr. Robertson
- Richard O'BrienGrimes
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- Robert WiseDirector
- Nelson GiddingScreenplay
- Michael CrichtonNovel
- Richard H. KlineDirector of Photography
- Gil MelléOriginal Music Composer
- John W. HolmesEditor
- Stuart GilmoreEditor
- Robert WiseProducer
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