Directed by:
Peter HyamsScreenplay:
Peter HyamsCinematography:
Bill ButlerComposer:
Jerry GoldsmithCast:
Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro, Sam Waterston, O.J. Simpson, Hal Holbrook, Karen Black, Telly Savalas, David Huddleston, David Doyle, Lee Bryant (more)Plots(1)
As the whole world watches the first manned flight to Mars, its three astronauts are plunged into a nightmarish battle for survival. Minutes before the launch of their mission, the Capricorn One crew are told to exit their capsule and are secretly taken to an abandoned desert hangar. For the sake of the nation's morale and the future of NASA funding, they are coerced into taking part in an elaborate charade but when the captive astronauts learn their capsule burned up on re-entry and the world believes them dead, they know their very existence now poses a threat to national security. The three men escape, hoping that one of them will live to expose the sensational cover-up. (Network)
(more)Cast
![Milton Selzer](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/897/159897654_8e778a.jpg)
Milton Selzer
USA
Best movies:
Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
The Young Savages (1961)
Capricorn One (1977)
Lou Frizzell
USA
Best movies:
The Front Page (1974)
Roots: The Next Generations (1979) (series)
Duel (1971) (TV movie)
![Paul Picerni](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/634/158634617_9893ed.jpg)
Paul Picerni
USA
Best movies:
Miracle of Fatima (1952)
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
The Apartment (1960)
![Barbara Bosson](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/525/161525898_b8734c.jpg)
Barbara Bosson
USA
Best movies:
Bullitt (1968)
Capricorn One (1977)
The Last Starfighter (1984)
![Jon Cedar](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/473/159473301_57efef.jpg)
Jon Cedar
USA
Best movies:
Roots: The Next Generations (1979) (series)
Capricorn One (1977)
I Want to Live (1983) (TV movie)
Steve Tannen
Best movies:
Capricorn One (1977)
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991)
She's Having a Baby (1988)
Trent Dolan
USA
Best movies:
Capricorn One (1977)
The Cover Girl and the Cop (1989) (TV movie)
White Line Fever (1975)
James Bacon
USA
Best movies:
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Teacher's Pet (1958)
Underworld U.S.A. (1961)
Dennis O'Flaherty
Best movies:
Capricorn One (1977)
Where the Buffalo Roam (1980)
It Lives Again (1978)
Zack Taylor
Best movies:
Capricorn One (1977)
Bob Harks
USA
Best movies:
Forrest Gump (1994)
Die Hard (1988)
The Sting (1973)
Monty Jordan
Best movies:
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
Brubaker (1980)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Hank Robinson
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
The Towering Inferno (1974)
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
![Arthur Tovey](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/376/159376088_84a67d.jpg)
Arthur Tovey
USA
Best movies:
The Sting (1973)
Back to the Future (1985)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Paul Van
Best movies:
Chinatown (1974)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Ghost (1990)