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Saw "Countdown" on TCM about two weeks ago. It was pretty good. Hoping they
will show "Destination Moon" (Heinlein screenplay) at some point.
Charlie
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> These Martian survival movies are generally pretty good. A similar
> one is "Countdown", an early Robert Duvall flick where the US tries to beat
> the USSR to the moon by sending a modified Mercury capsule on a one-way
> trip to the moon, where a survival shelter good for one year is waiting.
> It's based on the 1964 novel "The Pilgrim Project" by Hank Searls.
>
> >
> > Now that takes me back, Chris. I saw "Robinson Crusoe on Mars" in its
> >original theatrical release when I was about 10 years old. It was
> >impressive to my young self.
> >
> >Charlie
> >
> >On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >wrote:
> >
> >> On weekends here one of the broadcast movie channels will show
> >> entertaining movies from as far back as the 1930s, a series known as
> >> "Popcorn Movies". Today they started with "Robinson Crusoe on Mars",
> which
> >> is always worth watching. But then they followed it with an obscure
> one,
> >> "Robinson Crusoe of Mystery Island", which was released in 1936. I
> almost
> >> didn't watch this until I saw footage of the airship USS Macon (ZRS-5)
> >> being towed out of the hangar at Moffett Field:
> >>
> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Macon_%28ZRS-5%29
> >>
> >> Minutes later there is in-flight and landing film footage of a
> >> Sikorsky S-42 Flying Boat:
> >>
> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_S-42
> >>
> >> and shortly afterwards there is footage of a twin-engined flying boat
> that
> >> I cannot readily identify. It has the lines of a Grumman design, and it
> >> has three vertical stabilisers.
> >>
> >> The movie itself is a bit corny, but seeing these and possibly
> other
> >> aircraft makes it worth watching.
> >>
> >
>
> Chris
>
> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
> - Hunter S. Thompson
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