I find the film more fascinating today then I have in the past because we now live in a time when people are skeptical of everything. It won’t be easy to keep this secret because the astronauts escape which leads to a really cool chase in the Nevada desert. After months of faking the mission the astronauts are pronounced dead during re-entry. As he begins to unravel the truth his life is continually threatened, but that does not stop him from pursuing the story and exposing the truth. As the world tunes into the televised hoax a reporter, played by Elliott Gould, gets wind that something might be wrong. The astronauts are strong-armed into cooperating, if they don’t, the lives of their families are threatened. He has the astronauts extracted before the launch and secreted away to a remote facility in the desert so they can be filmed on a set in order to dupe the investors and the people of the world. The director of the program, played by Hal Holbrook, has an idea to save face and the billion dollar funding of the botched mission. Simpson) months before they reached the Red Planet. It seems that faulty manufactured life support systems would fail and ultimately kill the astronauts (James Brolin, Sam Waterston, and O.J. The story is about a NASA mission to Mars that goes bust and how they plan to make it look as though everything is hunky-dory.
CAPRICORN ONE is not a low budget docudrama detailing a hack point off view about an on-going conspiracy theory, it is a major motion picture that rationalizes the concept and turns it into a very fun piece of entertainment. Then, but a mere nine years later, CAPRICORN ONE is released and adds fuel to the conspiracy theory. As a child I could not conceive of the idea that the moon landing might have been faked, a big and elaborately produced hoax. I’m dating myself here, but I have a fond memory of watching this thriller on a hot summer night at the drive-in. Starring James Brolin, Hal Holbrook, and Elliott Gould. RONNIE SCHELL VOICES DISNEY'S 'THE CAT FROM OUTER.WILLIAM SHATNER FATHERS THE ANTI-DRUG KICK 'GO ASK.UNPOPULAR TAKES ON BELOVED 'SCARFACE' & 'TRUE ROMA.RICHARD PRYOR IN 'SOME KIND OF HERO' W/ MARGOT KIDDER.GOODMAN CHANNELS BATES IN 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE.SACHA BARON COHEN IN THE BROTHERS GRIMSBY.KIRK DOUGLAS IN DISNEY'S '20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE.JENNIFER GARNER IN MIRACLES FROM HEAVEN.SPACING-OUT ON THE MAINSTREAM-CULT FROM 'CAPRICORN.Robert Walden and Hal Holbrook in CAPRICORN ONE A special kind of "I grew up loving this movie" project that should cross over into any generation given the straight-out, unapologetic entertainment value since both halves are like completely different movies telling one neat story. If ever there's discovered a more sublime example of Sick Day Afternoon Cinema, to pass the time while enjoying passing time, let us know, because this ONE is the CITIZEN KANE of time-filling fluff.
Along the way, some of the best scenes involve character-actor Robert Walden, the smartest of the Houston techies, figuring something's off and not only making his buddy Caulfield (Gould) curious, but genuinely catapulting the plot into motion: ultimately involving an 11th hour "Guest Star" Telly Savalas in a dilapidated underdog desert biplane verses shiny and formidable government helicopters that, after all the brainy espionage, closes the door with simplistic and frolicking action.
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