Film
The Andromeda Strain
- 9PM
Director Robert Wise (West Side Story, The Sound of Music) adroitly adapts Michael Crichton’s sci-fi thriller in this 1971 cult favorite. Applauded by the scientific community as an accurate depiction of scientific inquiry, the film opens in a small Southwest town where a government satellite has recently crashed. When a team of doctors in hazmat suits is sent in, they find that everyone’s blood has turned to powder, killing them instantly. As the doctors descend into their underground facility with the remnants of the alien-infected satellite and the two lone survivors—a crying baby and a 69-year-old alcoholic—they must figure out how to save the rest of humanity.
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