Countdown (1967) on Netflix
The Soviets will launch a Moon landing in four weeks, so NASA activates the Pilgrim Project: one astronaut on a one-way rocket, waiting in a shelter pod. Lee Stegler is chosen.
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Plot summary
Word reaches NASA that the Soviets plan a crewed Moon landing within four weeks, and the agency activates the Pilgrim Project, a confidential effort to put one astronaut on the Moon in a one-way rocket and leave him in a shelter pod that lands ahead of him until an Apollo crew comes to retrieve him. Because the Soviets announce they will send a civilian, American officials decide their first man on the Moon must be one too. Lee Stegler, a member of mission commander Chiz's crew, is selected. Chiz is furious, but he agrees to put Lee through training in the days that remain, driving him hard partly to ready him and partly in the hope that he will quit. Lee persists.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Countdown (1967)
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- Robert Altman had finished filming Countdown and was preparing to edit when executive producer Bill Conrad warned him not to come to the studio: Jack Warner had seen the dailies and objected to actors talking at the same time, and a guard handed Altman his desk belongings in a cardboard box at the gate.
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The firing of Robert Altman led to Countdown's ending being changed; he had left it ambiguous, with the astronaut walking off in one direction while the camera pans back to reveal that the beacon lies in the opposite direction.- The overlapping dialogue that got Robert Altman fired from Countdown, with actors talking over one another, went on to become a signature of his directorial style.
