![]() ![]() ![]() Portraying a hoax mission to Mars and a larger conspiracy, the movie joins the group of movies during that era that involved distrust of the government (the others were "The Parallax View", "Three Days of the Condor" and "All the President's Men").Įlliott Gould brilliantly plays against type as the aggressive reporter doing everything possible to expose the lie but encountering many obstacles - many of which are probably no accident. Occasional claims that the moon landing may have been staged make "Capricorn One" all the more interesting. Reviewed by lee_eisenberg 7 / 10 makes you think It is a thrilling stunt and amazingly shot. The movie feels a little scattered until the plane helicopters chase. I don't think most of the scenes at the control room are that compelling. I prefer staying more with the astronauts and the reporter. It's an interesting premise for the paranoid conspiracy era. A technician discovers the conspiracy but then he disappears which alarms his investigative journalist friend Robert Caulfield (Elliott Gould). Few people would be involved in the cover up. Instead of scrubbing the mission, Kelloway pressures them to fake the Martian landing. James Kelloway (Hal Holbrook) tells them that the life support system was found fatally flawed. Simpson) are surprised to be secreted away. The astronauts Charles Brubaker (James Brolin), Peter Willis (Sam Waterston) and John Walker (O. The space program is under financial stress and the President can't even bother to show up for the launch. ![]() NASA launches Capricorn One into space on its way to Mars. Reviewed by SnoopyStyle 7 / 10 interesting conspiracy premise 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.-Col Needham 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. Seconds before the launch, the entire team is pulled from the capsule and the rocket leaves earth unmanned much to Brubaker's anger. Why haven't we heard "the truth" from moon hoax insiders? It's a fun movie to watch, despite some bad writing and dialogue.Charles Brubaker is the astronaut leading NASA's first manned mission to Mars. ![]() Also, in Capricorn One, the astronauts were prepared to spill the beans to the world. On even a strictly need-to-know basis, at least hundreds would have to be on the inside, and many others participating in the mission, including the "lowly" technicians, would be able to figure out that something was amiss. Capricorn One illustrates one of these holes, in that a very few people were able to fool the entire world, including the Soviets, who would have screamed bloody murder to the world had they even suspected such a hoax. (Funny how only one "lowly" technician was able to figure it out!) There are too many holes in the various "moon hoax" theories (there are several different theories, having in common only that they all say NASA fabricated the Apollo missions) to mention here. The tech's close friend, a reporter, probes his friend's mysterious disappearance, meeting intrigue and danger along the way. One of the technicians suspects that something isn't quite right with his readings, and tells his bosses about it. So, to keep government funding, he decides to stage the mission on a studio set, and will go to all extremes, including murder, to protect the secret. Government space agency (a fictional NASA) learns that a planned mission to Mars cannot be accomplished. When I first heard of this movie in high school, about the time of its release (it would be years before I would actually see it), I was under the impression that it was sort of an expose, clothed in fiction, of the "moon hoax." Actually, while the makers of this flick were no doubt inspired by these weird theories, they didn't really subscribe to them, which I was gratified to learn. ![]()
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