Capricorn One is a 1977 movie about Action, Adventure, Drama. It is from the United States, United Kingdom directed by Peter Hyams written by Peter Hyams starring Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro.
When the first manned flight to Mars is deemed unsafe and scrubbed on the launch pad, anxious authorities must scramble to save face and retain their funding - and so an unthinkable plot to fake the mission is hatched.
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.
It runs for 2 hours, 3 minutes in English. On IMDb, 24,575 people gave it an average rating of 6.8 out of 10 stars.
