Yapım :1978 Ülke : Amerika İngiltere Tür : Drama Süre : 123 dakika IMDB Puan : 6.4/10 IMDB ID: tt0077294
Oyuncular 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
Bilgi :Classic conspiracy tale about the first manned mission to Mars. All appears to be going well until the astronauts are pulled off the ship just before launch by shadowy government types and whisked off to a film studio in the desert. It transpires that the space vehicle has a major defect which NASA just daren't admit. At the studio, over a course of months, the astronauts are forced to act out the journey and the landing to trick the world into believing they have made the trip. Meanwhile, a Journalist (played by Gould) is getting suspicious and every clue he uncovers seems to result in an attempt on his life! The astronauts are just about to splashdown when a further twist to the tale occurs, leaving them with no choice but to try and escape...Charles Brubaker is the astronaut leading NASA's first manned mission to Mars. Seconds before the launch, the entire team is pulled from the capsule and the rocket leaves earth unmanned much to Brubaker's anger. The head of the programme explains that the life support system was faulty and that NASA can't afford the publicity of a scratched mission. The plan is to fake the Mars landing and keep the astronauts at a remote base until the mission is over, but then investigative journalist Robert Caulfield starts to suspect something.Brolin, Waterston and Simpson play astronauts agreeing to spare the government embarrassment by faking their Mars landing after their spacecraft is unsafe for a manned takeoff. When mission controller Holbrook plots to kill them in a staged capsule fire, they try to expose the truth. Gould stars as a journalist determined to crack the conspiracy and Telly Savalas is an eccentric farmer coming to Gould's aid.
