{"id":35158,"date":"2024-02-10T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35158"},"modified":"2024-02-08T12:43:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T17:43:29","slug":"the-andromeda-strain-1971-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35158","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Andromeda Strain&#8221; (1971) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z021024zview_adromediastrain.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"756\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Andromeda Strain<\/em> <\/strong>(1971)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Robert Wise<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Nelson Gidding <\/strong>based on<strong> THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN <\/strong>by<strong> Michael Crichton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>James Olson, Arthur Hill, David Wayne, Kate Reid, Paula Kelly, George Mitchell, Ramon Bieri, Kermit Murdock, Peter Hobbs, Eric Christmas<\/strong> and <strong>Mark Jenkins<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> Rated G&#8230;But May Be Too INTENSE For Younger Children<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shortly after a US satellite crashes near Piedmont, New Mexico, all of the residents, except for a baby and an old alcoholic are found dead.\u00a0 The survivors are rushed to a secret underground military facility.\u00a0 Top scientists are brought in.\u00a0 They determine that the satellite brought back an alien organism that has been released into the atmosphere.\u00a0 The clock is ticking as the scientists need to find a way to kill the organism before it spreads throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Andromeda Strain<\/em> is filmed in a serious documentary tone.\u00a0 Keeping with that idea, the casting is excellent.\u00a0 Instead of a 1971 superstar we are given solid actors.\u00a0 I can imagine some directors saying, &#8220;For the female scientist we need a Raquel Welch-type&#8221;.\u00a0 Instead they went with a middle-aged, grumpy type.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Andromeda Strain<\/em> <\/strong>(1971) rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z021024zview_adromediastrain2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"231\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Andromeda Strain (1971) Director:\u00a0 Robert Wise Screenplay: Nelson Gidding based on THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN by Michael Crichton Stars: James<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35159,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35158\/revisions\/35159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}