Le mystère Andromède

Titre original : The Andromeda Strain

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7,2/10

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Arthur Hill and James Olson in Le mystère Andromède (1971)

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Une équipe de scientifiques de haut niveau travaille fiévreusement dans un laboratoire secret et ultramoderne pour découvrir ce qui a tué les citoyens d'une petite ville et apprendre comment... Tout lireUne équipe de scientifiques de haut niveau travaille fiévreusement dans un laboratoire secret et ultramoderne pour découvrir ce qui a tué les citoyens d'une petite ville et apprendre comment arrêter la contagion mortelle.Une équipe de scientifiques de haut niveau travaille fiévreusement dans un laboratoire secret et ultramoderne pour découvrir ce qui a tué les citoyens d'une petite ville et apprendre comment arrêter la contagion mortelle.

Réalisation
- Robert Wise
Scénario
- Michael Crichton
- Nelson Gidding
Casting principal

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7,2/10

41 k

MA NOTE

Réalisation
- Robert Wise
Scénario
- Michael Crichton
- Nelson Gidding
Casting principal

Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro

Nommé pour 2 Oscars
- 4 nominations au total

Anecdotes
Special effects to create the germ from space cost $250,000.

Gaffes
At the beginning of the movie, vultures are shown circling over the town of Piedmont. Later, when the two scientists approach the town in a helicopter, the vultures are on the ground eating the flesh of the dead. The military even brought gas to kill off the vultures so they wouldn't fly off and spread the disease. What's interesting, is that no one gives a second thought as to why the vultures weren't dead. Even after they kill off a rat and monkey in the lab to test the disease no one wonders how it was that the vultures weren't affected. It is not unusual, in fact rather typical, for pathogens or chemicals to affect some species and not others, or at least affect them more slowly.

Citations
[finding a man dead by self-inflicted drowning in a bathtub]
Dr. Jeremy Stone: I wouldn't believe you could commit suicide that way.
Dr. Mark Hall: Most of them died instantly, but a few had time to go quietly nuts.

Crédits fous
The opening credits read: "ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This film concerns the four-day history of a major American scientific crisis. We received the generous help of many people attached to Project Scoop at Vandenberg Air Force Base and the Wildfire Laboratory in Flatrock, Nevada. They encouraged us to tell the story accurately and in detail." "The documents presented here are soon to be made public. They do not in any way jeopardize the national security."

Versions alternatives
Italian version is 10 minutes shorter than original version (released at 130 min.) and omits many scenes from a subplot about a fallen fighter plane.

Connexions
Edited into L'homme qui valait 3 milliards: Population: Zero (1974)

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7/10

Fine slow moving sci-fi drama

There's an echo of 2001 and a foreshadowing of The Parallax View in this paranoiac sci-fi drama. The movie delights in presenting the tools of science and questions the direction and authority of those elected or selected to preserve us. The pacing strikes modern audiences as slow - it is - but that's the film's greatest success: suspensefully unfolding at a snail's pace. Some of the dialog is stilted and some points are far too belabored (the scene where Dr. Mark Hall, James Olson, is instructed on the use of his key is a tedious overplaying of the moment). The cast do what they can with dialog that sounded a little trite and predictable in its day and sadly is the main thing that mars an otherwise hypnotic journey into the dangers of modern governments and modern science. At the film's core, however, is a lesson that bears repeating, lest we forget.