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Andromeda Strain, The
| YEAR |
1971 |
| RATING |
M |
| RUNNING TIME |
125 minutes |
| REGION |
Region 4 (Australia / N.Z.) |
| SUBTITLES |
English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
Synopsis
Directed with clinical precision by Robert Wise (The day the Earth Stood Still, Star Trek: The Motion Picture), this record of the earth’s first biological crisis is perhaps the most painstakingly authentic science-fiction thriller ever made.
When a satellite falls to earth near a remote New Mexico village, the recovery team finds everyone in the area dead except an infant and an old derelict.
The survivors are brought to a five-storey underground lab – one of the most elaborate and intricate sets ever assembled in Hollywood – where scientists attempt to determine the nature of the deadly microbe before it starts a world wide epidemic.
A trailblazer in the realm of science fact, the Andromeda Strain is based on Michael Crichton’s best-selling novel that created national paranoia for its topical relevance to the first moon landing.