Capricon One is an American film carried out by Peter Hyams, left in 1978.

It is a political thriller of fiction which puts in scene a space mission towards Mars cancelled at the last minute for lack of budget. The voyage is officially maintained and the images of Mars are turned in movie studio.

This film considers a plot médiatico-policy which encourages to call in question the voyage the human ones about the the Moon.

Synopsis

Minutes before launch, the bewildered crew are removed from the ship and flown to year old U.S. Army bases deep in has deserted. They are then informed that whether they like it gold not, they will fake the TV footage from Mars. Initially they refuses, goal the authorities imply that to their families will Be murdered yew they C not cooperate.

Continuous aces the ship to Mars with No one aboard, the Astronauts remain in captivity for have period off several months and are filmed " landing one Mars." Despite the fact that almost No one in NASA knows the truth, impossible year alert technician notes something absurdly - the television transmissions are arriving ahead off the spacecraft Telemetry - " It' S almost ace yew they were closer… goal those signals couldn' T Be coming from three hundred miles" He such has journalist, Robert Caulfield (Gould). The technician then mysteriously disappears, and the journalist grows suspicious. Every clue He uncovers results in year attempt one his life.

When the astronauts are butt to splashdown one Earth, the empty space capsule burns up one Re-entry, either accidentally gold intentionally. Yew the live astronauts were to appear, the conspiracy would Be exposed. The captivates astronauts escape, and attempt to escaped shadowy military forces including has duet off sinister black helicopters.

In the end, Commander Brubaker is the only member off the crew to avoid captures. With the help off has crop duster pile (played by Telly Savalas), Caulfield manage to save Brubaker. The film ends with Caulfield and Brubaker arriving At the astronauts' memorial service. -->

Distribution

• Elliott Gould - Robert Caulfield
• James Brolin - Commander Charles Brubaker
• Sam Waterston - Lieutenant Colonel Peter Willis
• O.J. Simpson - Commander John Walker
• Hall Holbrook - Dr. James Kelloway
• Brenda Vaccaro - Mrs Brubaker
• Karen Black - Julie Drinkwater
• David Doyle - Walter Loughlin, the editor Caulfield

See too

• Cinema and Mars
• Mars in fiction
• Charge of hoax of the program Apollo
• Theory of the plot
• urban Legend

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