DIRECTOR: Robert Wise
PRODUCER: Robert Wise
PRODUCTION CO: Universal
SCREENPLAY: Nelson Gidding, based on the novel by Michael Crichton
​PHOTOGRAPHY: Richard H Kline
EDITORS: Stuart Gilmore, John W Holmes
MUSIC: Gil Mellé
WITH: Arthur Hill (Dr Jeremy Stone), David Wayne (Dr Charles Dutton), James Olson (Dr Mark Hall), Kate Reid (Dr Ruth Leavitt), Paula Kelly (Karen Anson), George Mitchell (Jackson), Ramon Bieri (Major Arthur Manchek), Kermit Murdock (Dr Robertson), Richard O'Brien (Grimes)

REVIEWS

“They call it science fiction, but only too rarely does the cinematic genre tackle a subject which focuses primarily on the science. This screen adaptation of Michael Crichton's first bestseller tackles the crisis that unfolds when a space probe falls to Earth carrying an extraterrestrial virus that instantly turns human blood to powder. Thankfully, the US authorities have just built a secret subterranean research facility for exactly such eventualities. But it's by no means a given that the boffins will be able to isolate and neutralise the threat – and there's a nuclear self-destruct option to prevent wider contamination. Veteran director Robert Wise, still riding on the box-office bonanza of The Sound of Music, approaches it all with an austere documentary rigour that at first seems to underplay the drama, but builds to an almost unbearable degree of claustrophobic anxiety."

– Trevor Johnston, Time Out

FILM SOCIETY SCREENINGS

Hamilton
Monday, 11 March, 6.30pm

Dunedin
Wednesday, 27 March, 7.30pm

Timaru
Tuesday, 09 April, 6.30pm

​Whanganui   
Monday, 13 May, 7.00pm

Wellington     
Monday, 24 June, 6.15pm

​Canterbury     
Monday, 22 July, 7.00pm 
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