The Andromeda Strain (film)

The Andromeda Strain is a 1971 American science fiction film produced and directed by Robert Wise. Based on Michael Crichtons 1969 novel of the same name and adapted by Nelson Gidding, the film stars Arthur Hill, James Olson, Kate Reid, and David Wayne as a team of scientists who investigate a deadly organism of extraterrestrial origin. With a few exceptions, the film follows the book closely. The special effects were designed by Douglas Trumbull. The film is notable for its use of split screen in certain scenes.

Nobel laureate Dr. Jeremy Stone Arthur Hill, the team leader, and Dr. Mark Hall James Olson, the team surgeon, are dropped in Piedmont by helicopter, where they search the town for Scoopin hazmat suits. They find the towns doctor, who died after opening the satellite out of curiosity. Hall cuts open the doctors corpse and finds that all of his blood has clotted and turned to powder. Stone and Hall retrieve Scoopand find two survivors a 62yearold man and an infant who cant be more thanmonths old.The entire team of four core research scientists, including Dr. Charles Dutton and Dr. Ruth Leavitt, are summoned from their academic and research appointments to arrive at a top secret, hightech underground laboratory in Nevada, named Wildfire, where they undergo a full day of decontamination procedures, descending through five rigorous disinfection levels of the lab. Before decontamination, Hall is informed that the facilitys nuclear device has been armed and will go off automatically within five minutes should there be a containment breach. He is entrusted with a key to disarm the bomb from designated substations within that window. The team enter the facility under the impression that Piedmont has already been sterilized by a nuclear bomb. ........

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