The Andromeda Strain
Director: Robert Wise
Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller, Mystery
Year: 1971
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Arthur Hill, James Olson, Kate Reid, David Wayne, Paula Kelly, George Mitchell, Frances Reid, Ramon Bieri, Mark Jenkins, Carl Reindel, Peter Hobbs, Kermit Murdock, Joe Di Reda, Eric Christmas, Peter Helm
The Andromeda Strain is a 1971 American science-fiction film, based on the novel published in 1969 by Michael Crichton. The film is about a team of scientists who investigate a deadly organism of extraterrestrial origin that causes rapid, fatal blood clotting. Directed by Robert Wise, the film starred Arthur Hill, James Olson, Kate Reid, and David Wayne. The film follows the book closely. The special effects were designed by Douglas Trumbull.
After a US government satellite crashes near the town of Piedmont, New Mexico, a microbe attached to the satellite kills all but two of the town's inhabitants — a sixty-two-year-old man and an infant. Some of those who died show signs of having first gone mad. The mechanism of death is massive clotting and granulation of every drop of blood in their bodies. An elite scientific team takes the satellite into a secret underground laboratory in the Nevada desert, known as the Wildfire Complex, in order to study it. The new life form is assigned the code name Andromeda. Within a couple of days the microbe mutates into a form that degrades synthetic rubber gaskets and thus escapes containment. This triggers an automatic self-destruct mechanism
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