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The Andromeda Strain

1971, Movie, G, 127 mins

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The Andromeda Strain: Review

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This intriguing, suspenseful adaptation of Michael Crichton's bestseller is somewhat hampered by a slightly dull cast, but the final sequence will leave you gasping. A research satellite carrying an alien virus crashes into a small Arizona town, the bug killing nearly all of the inhabitants. Top scientists from across the country are then rounded up in order to identify and control the potentially plague-like germ. Read the complete review for The Andromeda Strain

The Andromeda Strain: Cast & Details

Year: 1971
Rated G
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 Arthur Hill: Dr. Stone
David Wayne: Dr. Dutton
James Olson: Dr. Hall
Kate Reid: Dr. Leavitt
Paula Kelly: Nurse
George Mitchell: Old Man

 

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The Andromeda Strain: TV Guide News

  • Michael Crichton's Andromeda Strain Strikes Again on A&E | Today's News: Our Take | 5/23/2008
     If you were flying over the scenic mining town of Hedley, British Columbia, last summer, you might have been a tad freaked out. You would have seen smoke and flames and rows of bodies lying dead on the street. The only sign of life: three solitary figures dressed in biohazard suits. With luck, someone would have told you that a miniseries remake of the sci-fi classic The Andromeda Strain (May 26 and 27 at 9 pm/ET, A&E) was being shot, the bodies were local residents playing dead, and the guys in the bio-suits were famous actors. After all, in this age of global epidemics and biological warfare, it's not terribly hard to imagine this scene playing out for real. Based on Michael Crichton's best-selling novel from four decades ago, A&E's star-packed, four-hour Andromeda is the second screen adaptation (a feature was released in 1971), but exec producer Ridley Scott believes i read more
  • Sopranos Star Makes Oprah's Day, More Casting News | Today's News: Our Take | 7/12/2007
    Emmy winner Michael Imperioli is set to star alongside Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn in the ABC TV-movie Oprah Winfrey Presents: Mitch Albom's For One More Day, about a despondent former baseball star who is magically granted a 24-hour reunion with his deceased ma.... A&E's Ridley and Tony Scott-produced four-hour adaptation of The Andromeda Strain now counts Ricky Schroder, Eric McCormack, Andre Braugher and Benjamin Bratt among its cast, says Variety.... Charles S. Dutton will direct and star with Elizabeth Peña in Racing for Time, a Lifetime pic inspired by the true story of Noel Chestnut, a prison guard who created a sports program for hard-core female juvies. read more

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