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Christian Kirke, electrolytes specialist, was unavailable for duty because of appendicitis. The Robertson Odd Man Hypothesis states that unmarried men are capable of carrying out the best, most dispassionate decisions during crisis and he is given the only key that can disarm the self-destruct mechanism. He is the "odd man", since he is the only one without a spouse. Mark Hall, M.D., surgeon, biochemistry and pH specialist. Charles Burton, infection vectors specialist and Dr.
Jeremy Stone, bacteriologist specialist Dr. The Wildfire scientific team studying the unknown strain is composed of Dr. The base commander suspects the satellite returned with an extraterrestrial organism and recommends activating Wildfire, the government-sponsored team that counters extraterrestrial biological infestation. Aerial surveillance reveals that everyone in Piedmont, Arizona, the town closest to where the satellite landed, is apparently dead. When a military satellite returns to Earth, a recovery team is dispatched to retrieve it during a live radio communication with their base, the team members suddenly die.
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(The Motion Picture Association of America's Production Code and Rating Administration classifies this film: "G-all ages admitted, general audiences.")Dr. At the Cinema I Theater, 60th Street and Third Avenue.
The CastTHE ANDROMEDA STRAIN, directed by Robert Wise screenplay by Nelson Gidding, from the novel by Michael Crichton director of photography, Richard H. From time to time, somebody gets up and paces the room.Occasionally "The Andromeda Strain" returns to the sacred texts, not of science but of science-fiction, and admits its five vulgar resources - as in the sea water, or when in the massive microscope the alien green matter suddenly shimmers and expands, and in agonized horror the Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist turns to the distinguished microbiologist with, "My God, it's growing!"
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The result is that, except for an odd 30 seconds here and there for individualization (not characterization), everybody delivers exposition right up to and through the last lines of the film.Despite all the drama of the situation (United States threatened with biological destruction from outer space, etc.) nothing very exciting goes on in "The Andromeda Strain." Since nobody greatly feels or acts, we are left with the drama of people tensely sitting around in chairs, twisting dials and watching TV monitors. Wise preserves the impoverished positivism of Crichton's method (even to dividing his screen in a dull bid for informational range) but necessarily assigns most of it to his actors. The assembling of the scientists (Arthur Hill, David Wayne, James Olson and Kate Reid-no one of whom gets a chance at a real performance) and their biological research against time is all the action of "The Andromeda Strain."Crichton put his novel together as if from a collection of note cards-a story outline beefed up with a lot of semi-scientific data. In general the drift of the filmmakers has been to heat things up: laser beams rather than curare guns to complicate the crises a little-well, I shouldn't call it romance, but the kind of girl (Paula Kelly) with whom there might be romance once this awful mess is over-and a momentary crunch of conscience for the Wildfire scientists when they discover, quite gratuitously, that their benevolent top-secret project is really a cover for research in germ warfare.Wildfire, from deep in its fifth sub-basement super-antiseptic laboratories in Nevada, has been engaged in tracking the extraterrestrial reason that almost the entire population of a little Arizona town died one night when they opened up the nose cone of a retrieved satellite.
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I mean that handy diffusion of salt in water, as available as your local ocean, that, when the Army and the Navy and the Atomic Energy Commission have failed, proves to be the only thing that will shrivel a Triffid or shrink a Monolith Monster down to size.Somebody has introduced a bit of ultimate ocean (the Pacific) at the end of "The Andromeda Strain"-one of several additions, plus a few subtractions, that have been made in Robert Wise's screen version without in any way improving upon (in my opinion) Michael Crichton's dreadful novel. Of all the solutions that science-fiction movies have proposed for the problems facing mankind, my favorite is the saline solution.