Capricorn One (1978)

Director:

Peter Hyams

Guionista:

Peter Hyams (written by)

Release Date:

2 junio 1978 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Frase comercial:

The mission was a sham. The murders were real.

Plot:

A NASA Mars mission won't work, and its funding is endangered, so they decide to fake it just this once. But then they have to keep the secret...

Plot Keywords:

Joke | Desert | Astronaut | Escape | Chase

Awards:

4 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

The Mars Hoax

Cast

Elliott Gould	...	Robert Caulfield
James Brolin	...	Col. Charles Brubaker
Brenda Vaccaro	...	Kay Brubaker
Sam Waterston	...	Lt. Col. Peter Willis
O.J. Simpson	...	Cmdr. John Walker
Hal Holbrook	...	Dr. James Kelloway
Karen Black	...	Judy Drinkwater
Telly Savalas	...	Albain
David Huddleston	...	Congressman Hollis Peaker
David Doyle	...	Walter Loughlin
Lee Bryant	...	Sharon Willis
Denise Nicholas	...	Betty Walker
Robert Walden	...	Elliot Whittier
James Sikking	...	Control Room man (as Jim Sikking)
Alan Fudge	...	Capsule communicator

También conocida como:

Capricornio Uno (Spain) [es]

Duración:

123 min

País:

USA | UK

Idioma:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.20 : 1

Sonido:

4-Track Stereo (35 mm magnetic prints) | 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints)

Clasificación:

Iceland:L | Netherlands:12 (DVD rating) | USA:PG (certificate no. 25000) | Netherlands:6 | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | Norway:15 | Sweden:15 | UK:PG | West Germany:12 | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Long Beach, California, USA

Company:

Associated General Films

Trivialidades:

Barbra Streisand's two husbands, Elliott Gould and James Brolin, both star in this movie.

Goofs:

Miscellaneous: Lear Jet Pilot Clay Lacy appears twice in the closing credits.

Quotes:

Judy Drinkwater: I'll fix you some coffee, then you can jump me.
Robert Caulfield: There's no other one besides White Bluff?
Judy Drinkwater: No, except one abandoned base they use for training during World War Two. Jackson. There's nothing there now. Don't you want to jump me?
Robert Caulfield: Of course I do. Where's Jackson?
Judy Drinkwater: About three hundred miles directly west. I think I'm going to get angry with you.
Robert Caulfield: Do you have any money on you?
Judy Drinkwater: You want me to pay you?
Robert Caulfield: How much?
Judy Drinkwater: About a hundred. Why don't I just leave it on the dresser in the morning.
Robert Caulfield: Give it to me now.
[...]

Movie Connections:

Referenced in A Sound of Thunder (2005)

The Mars Hoax

This movie is indeed a noteworthy sci-fi/conspiracy flick, even after all these years.

Unmistakeably based on the real-life "moon hoax" pseudo-conspiracy, it takes the issue one step further and explores just how far your government might go to cover up its own incapacity and silence everyone who gets in its way (Ironically enough for that matter, the moon landings are portrayed in this movie as a non-hoax and really did take place).

When three would-be Mars astronauts are secretly pulled out of their capsule just minutes before liftoff due to a malfunctioning life support system that would have meant certain death, they are quickly transferred to an abandoned air force base out in the desert. Upon arrival, they are told that they'll have to play make-believe using the facility's very own "Mars" sound stage. It's got everything in place to fool the public about an actual Mars landing. Things go somewhat well and although the astronauts really begin to resent the big swindle they were drawn into, nobody really notices. That is, until their real-life landing capsule disintegrates while re-entering the earth's atmosphere. They figure that now that they're all supposed to be dead, the government will have them killed for real....

So much for the plot, the rest is yours to find out about. Definitely worth watching. One thing though, try to watch it in widescreen - somehow they showed the 4:3 full-frame version on TV here, which was a major drawback considering the movie's original 2.35:1 aspect ratio.

8 out of 10!