COUNTDOWN

COUNTDOWN
   Film (1968). William Conrad Productions. Dir Robert Altman, starring Robert Duvall, James Caan. Screenplay Loren Mandel, based on The Pilgrim Project (1964) by Hank SEARLS. 101 mins cut to 73 mins for UK. Colour.
   A year later, C would have looked like documentary, for it concerns the first landing on the Moon, which actually took place in 1969. The film's struggle between the USSR and USA to be first to reach the Moon strays from the real-life facts (Searls's original novel was published in 1964), but the behind-the-scenes planning on which the film focuses is gripping. The idiosyncratic, vivid view of personal relationships - here among astronauts and technicians - that typifies Altman's work brings life to the soap-opera elements (astronaut's wife takes to drink, etc.). C's climax is authentically exciting. This is early Altman, and he had no way of preventing a clumsy re-edit or the butchery of the UK print. A number of the later films of Robert Altman (1925-) were fantasy or sf: Brewster McCloud (1970), 3 Women (1977), QUINTET (1979) and Popeye (1980) most obviously.
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