CAPRICORN ONE

CAPRICORN ONE
   Film (1977). Capricorn One Associates/Associated General/ITC. Dir Peter Hyams, starring Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro, Sam Waterston, O.J. Simpson, Hal Holbrook. Screenplay Hyams. 124 mins. Colour.
   The premise of this PARANOIA movie - made at a time, in the wake of Watergate, when secret-political-conspiracy films had become commonplace - is that a supposedly manned mission to Mars cannot carry a crew because of a malfunction in the life-support system. Fearing a public-relations disaster and a cut in funding, NASA decides to fake the mission: an unmanned craft is sent and a remote film-set is used in place of Mars, the "astronauts" being blackmailed into taking part in the deception. But, after the real spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere on its return to Earth, the astronauts are officially "dead", and will probably be murdered to keep them quiet. Escapes, desert chases and confusions follow. The provocative theme of appearance vs reality in a media-dominated world could have been interesting, but Hyams raises the issue only to ignore it in favour of routine spectacle. That NASA should have cooperated in making the film is mystifying. Unusually, the film was novelized twice: in the USA as Capricorn One * (1977) by Ron GOULART, and in the UK as Capricorn One * (1978) by Bernard L. Ross (Ken FOLLETT).
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