Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Mild
- Frights
- Mild
The story
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 that 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, which has also launched such an illegal satellite. But will both governments agree?
- new york city
- nasa
- meteor
- disaster
- destruction
- united nations
- world trade center
- avalanche
- translator
- flood
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Martin Landau — General Adlon
- Trevor Howard — Sir Michael Hughes
- Richard Dysart — Secretary of Defense
- Henry Fonda — The President
- Joseph Campanella — General Easton
- Bo Brundin — Rolf Manheim
- Katherine De Hetre — Jan Watkins
- James G. Richardson — Alan Marshall
- Roger Robinson — Bill Hunter
- Michael Zaslow — Sam Mason
- John Findlater — Astronaut Tom Easton
- Directed
- Ronald Neame
- Written
- Stanley Mann, Edmund H. North
Production
- Rating
- 5.2 / 10 · 180 ratings
- Studio
- American International Pictures, Meteor Joint Venture, Palladium Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
