Mission director Hal Holbrook arrives shortly thereafter, a rock-steady presence of steely confidence, and confesses to the bewildered astronauts that something went wrong in the construction of the rocket, which would have caused a long delay in the mission and likely lead to N.A.S.A. The rocket takes off without them and the world watches, transfixed. astronauts who are pulled from the first mission to Mars moments before their rocket is set to launch. It's a triumph, a film that stars James Brolin, Sam Waterston and O.J. After directing two more films based on scripts by others (romantic comedy Our Time and mystery comedy Peeper), Hyams was finally offered the opportunity to direct his own, original Capricorn One script. He made his feature debut with the crime comedy Busting in 1974, which he also wrote. He directed his own teleplay for the crime comedy Goodnight, My Love, which earned him a lot of interest in Hollywood. Later, Hyams described himself as a writer "who didn't want to write for anyone else," which led him to televison. Baskin in 1971, which he also produced Herbert Ross directed. I knew that I wanted to combine imagery with writing and relevance." After spending six years in television journalism, he left his job with CBS News and wrote a script - which sold! He had already begun writing: "Not well, just prodigiously. Hyams was educated in the arts and "became consumed by photography," as he told interviewer Luke Ford in 2002. The reaction was, 'Get your car out of the parking lot!' It kind of baffled me and I put it aside for a few years." So I was watching these simulations and I wondered what would happen if someone faked a whole story." Reaction wasn't what he expected, however. "My generation was brought up to believe television was true, and that was bullshit too. I grew up in the generation where my parents basically believed if it was in the newspaper it was true. Louis where there was a simulation of what was going on. "Whenever there was something on the news about a space shuttle, they would cut to a studio in St. "I'd been germinating this idea for some time," filmmaker Peter Hyams told Empire in 2014. (The film is available to stream via FilmStruck, which is how I watched it, and also Amazon Prime.) In our current era, in which the term 'fake news' is hurled as an insult, without rhyme or reason or evidence, it's fascinating to rewind to 1978 and watch Capricorn One, based on the idea of an outrageous fake news story. One of the most entertaining '70's-flicks out there."A funny thing happened on the way to Mars." Karen Black and Telly Savalas also make some small, almost cameo like appearances in this movie. Perhaps it's true though that the movie is lacking a clear main character and the movie isn't always clear with on which character it is going to focus with its main plot. The movie also has a pretty nice cast with Elliott Gould, Hal Holbrook, James Brolin, Sam Waterston and O.J. It also had some real nice camera-work by Bill Butler. It's a really well made movie, that got directed with lots of pace by Peter Hyams, who has always been at his best directing action stuff, even though most of his movies aren't exactly among the greatest, this one not included. What also really uplifts the movie and its action and entertainment value is the great musical score by Jerry Goldsmith. But of course as you can expect from an '70's movie, there also is plenty of action involving cars and other great action stuff. No way they'll ever do a sequences like that again now days, with all those heavy regulations for stunts and of course the availability of CGI this present time. The plane and helicopters chase in this movie is pretty insane and was obviously very dangerous for all of those involved with it. It's a movie that I have always enjoyed watching and always will. It's such a great and entertaining movie that you're basically willing to forgive everything that is less great about it. It doesn't always make the movie the most believable one to watch out there but in this particular case that hardly matters at all. It's really mainly the concept and main story that makes this movie an interesting one as well as entertaining. It's a movie with a conspiracy story but luckily the movie decides to be more entertaining with it than heavy or serious really. It has a lot of elements in it that always make '70's movies such great ones to watch. The movie has a really great premise, that provides the movie with plenty of thriller elements and action. It makes this movie one of my favorite movies to watch from the '70's. Even though this certainly isn't the best movie you'll ever see, it's still a movie that is a perfectly entertaining one.
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