Countdown

Countdown (1967)

The motion picture that puts a man on the moon and you follow him every terrifying second of the way.

Desperate to land a man on the moon before Russia does, NASA hastily preps a would-be spaceman for a mission that would leave him alone in a lunar shelter for a year.

Date of release
1967-08-20
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (60)
Runtime
1h 41m
Genres
Science Fiction, Thriller
Director
Robert Altman

Casting

Interesting facts

Countdown is a 1967 American science fiction film directed by Robert Altman, based on the 1964 novel The Pilgrim Project by Hank Searls. The film stars James Caan and Robert Duvall as astronauts vying to be the first Americans to walk on the Moon as part of an accelerated program to beat the Soviet Union.

Production

Under the working title of Moonshot, production on Countdown benefited from the cooperation of NASA, lending facilities at Cocoa Beach, Florida, to enhance the production. Business and recreation scenes were filmed in California at the McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Co. plant in Huntington Beach, Jamaica Bay Inn in Marina del Rey, Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, and Space Park in Redondo Beach.

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