Meteor 1979
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After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it hits it will cause an incredible catastrophe which will probably extinguish mankind. To stop the meteor NASA wants to use the illegal nuclear weapon satellite "Hercules" but discovers soon that it doesn't have enough firepower. Their only chance to save the world is to join forces with the USSR who have also launched such an illegal satellite. But will both governments agree?
Cast
K
Katherine De Hetre
Jan Watkins
M
Michael Zaslow
Sam Mason
P
Paul Tulley
Astronaut Bill Frager
Crew
- Director
- Ronald Neame
- Writers
- Stanley Mann, Edmund H. North
- Producers
- Arnold H. Orgolini, Theodore R. Parvin, Run Run Shaw
- Executive Producers
- Sandy Howard, Gabriel Katzka, Samuel Z. Arkoff
- Cinematography
- Paul Lohmann
- Editing
- Carl Kress
- Composer
- Laurence Rosenthal
- Production Design
- Edward C. Carfagno
- Costume Design
- Albert Wolsky
Details
- Release date
- Oct 19, 1979
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $16,000,000
- Revenue
- $12,600,000
- Studios
- American International Pictures, Meteor Joint Venture, Palladium Productions
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- French, English, Russian
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