The four of them are to report to a top-secret subterranean facility deep in the Nevada desert codenamed “Wildfire”, cleverly disguised as a ( working) US Agricultural Research station on the surface. Hall is summoned by armed soldiers right before he is about to cut into a patient. Ruth Leavitt ( Kate Reid) and a young surgeon, Dr. Charles Dutton ( David Wayne), the anti-establishment Dr. Stone is named leader of the team, which includes would-be Alaska retiree Dr. The US military immediately activates a top-secret team to deal with what could be an extraterrestrial contaminant. Two military scouts were sent to retrieve the capsule, but contact is lost shortly after they arrive at the site. Jeremy Stone ( Arthur Hill), his story begins with a top-secret US sample retrieval mission from outer space called “SCOOP” which has landed in the remote Nevadan town of Piedmont. Told in flashback to a congressional committee by government scientist Dr. The pacing of the film is a lot slower than modern audiences might be used to, but the nail-biter of a final act more than rewards a patient viewer. The movie, directed by Oscar winning director Robert Wise (“West Side Story” “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” “The Day The Earth Stood Still”) from a book by the Michael Crichton (“Westworld” “ER” “Jurassic Park”) has, for the most part, withstood the test of time as a brilliant cautionary tale. We watched the movie over Easter Weekend ( yes, we’re strange we accept that) and seeing it again was surprisingly therapeutic. But with a gentle nudge of encouragement from my wife, I decided to tackle “The Andromeda Strain” because there’s still enough ‘science fiction’ there to explore without being too ripped from today’s headlines. I swore that I would do my best to stay away from plague movies like “Contagion” (2011) and “The Andromeda Strain” (1971) during the current coronavirus pandemic, because I thought that going there would be too depressing.
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