Marooned is a 1969 movie directed by John Sturges and staring Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna and Gene Hackman. 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of... John Eliot Sturges (3 January 1911 – 18 August 1982) Known as The dean of big_budget action movies made during the 1950s and 1960. Sturges movies include The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Ice Station Zebra and Marooned (movie). ... Peck as Atticus Finch Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American film actor of Irish and Armenian Catholic extraction. ... Richard Donald Crenna (November 30, 1926 - January 17, 2003) was an American actor. ... Gene Hackman Eugene Alden Hackman (born 30 January 1930) is an American actor. ...

Marooned was released only three months before the Apollo 11 moon landing and is clearly tied to the topical public fascination with the event. The film does its best to depict the actual Apollo space program in a realistic fashion. The Apollo 11 mission was the first manned lunar landing. ... Apollo Program insignia Project Apollo was a series of human spaceflight missions undertaken by the United States of America using the Apollo spacecraft and Saturn launch vehicle, conducted during the years 1961–1972. ...

The film won an Oscar for Visual Effects. Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ...

Marooned was based on a 1964 novel by Martin Caidin. Caidin was a pilot who ran an aerospace consultancy firm and wrote a number of fiction and non-fiction books. The work he was most famous for was the novel Cyborg (1972), which became the basis of the television series The Six Million Dollar Man (1973-1978). 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... DeFoes Robinson Crusoe, Newspaper edition published in 1719 A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... Martin Caidin (1927-1997) was an American author and an authority on aeronautics and aviation. ... The term cyborg, a portmanteau of cybernetic organism, is used to designate an organism which is a mixture of organic and mechanical parts. ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... The Six Million Dollar Man was an American television series about a cyborg working for a U.S. secret service called OSI. The show was based on the book Cyborg from Martin Caidin, and aired on the American Broadcasting Company from 1973 to 1978. ... 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ...

John Eliot Sturges (3 January 1911 – 18 August 1982) Known as The dean of big_budget action movies made during the 1950s and 1960. Sturges movies include The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Ice Station Zebra and Marooned (movie). ... Martin Caidin (1927-1997) was an American author and an authority on aeronautics and aviation. ... Peck as Atticus Finch Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American film actor of Irish and Armenian Catholic extraction. ... Richard Donald Crenna (November 30, 1926 - January 17, 2003) was an American actor. ... David Janssen David Harold Meyer (March 27, 1931 - February 13, 1980), better known as David Janssen, was an American film and television actor who is best-known for his role as Dr. Richard Kimble in the television series The Fugitive (ABC,1963-1967). ... Gene Hackman Eugene Alden Hackman (born 30 January 1930) is an American actor. ... Lee Grant (October 31, 1927 in New York, New York) is an American theater, film and television actress, and film director who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s. ... Nancy Kovack (born March 11, 1935 in Flint, Michigan) is an American actress. ... Columbia Pictures logo, used only from 1981-1993 Columbia Pictures, now Columbia TriStar Pictures after their merger with the former TriStar Entertainment in 1998, is a film production company, and part of Sony Pictures Entertainment. ... November 10 is the 314th day of the year (315th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 51 days remaining. ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ...

Plot

Three American astronauts are returning from several months at a space station when the retro rockets on their command module, "Ironman," fail to fire and they are stranded in orbit. Mission Control debates whether a rescue flight can reach them before their oxygen runs out. A hurricane is headed for the launch area delaying a rescue. Finally, a Soviet spacecraft also tries to make contact. The film ends on the somewhat Utopian wish fulfillment of the Space Race being resolved on a note of East-West cooperation. U.S. Space Shuttle astronaut Bruce McCandless II using a manned maneuvering unit (MMU) outside the Challenger in 1984. ... Mission control center (MCC) is a unit that manages aerospace flights. ...

The Film's Legacy

Marooned debuted only months before the moon landing of Apollo 11, and the ill-fated Apollo 13. After seeing the same drama from the movie played-out in real life, the public and NASA began to question the safety of the US Space Program. Some say that the result of this contributed to the end of the NASA Apollo Project, the development of the Space Shuttle, and also the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project between the US and the Soviet Union. The first moon landing by a human was that of American Neil Armstrong, Commander of the Apollo 11 mission. ... The Apollo 11 mission was the first manned lunar landing. ... Apollo 13 was an American space mission, part of the Apollo program. ... The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which was established in 1958, is the agency responsible for the public space program of the United States of America. ... Apollo Program insignia Project Apollo was a series of human spaceflight missions undertaken by the United States of America using the Apollo spacecraft and Saturn launch vehicle, conducted during the years 1961–1972. ... The Space Shuttle Columbia seconds after engine ignition, 1981 (NASA). ... The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project was the first joint flight of the US and Soviet space programs. ... ...

In the 1980s, Marooned was redistributed under the name Space Travelers by Film Ventures International, an ultra-low-budget production company that prepared quickie television and video releases of films that were in the public domain or could be purchased inexpensively. As Space Travelers, Marooned was mocked on a 1992 episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, becoming the only Oscar-winning film ever to receive the MST3K treatment. // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 60s and 70s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... From left to right, Crow T. Robot, Joel Robinson, and Tom Servo (the latter dressed as a candystriper). ...

External link

• Marooned at the Internet Movie Database