Spaceflight IC-1

Spaceflight IC-1

Original film poster
Directed by Bernard Knowles
Produced by Robert Lippert
producer
Written by Harry Spalding
Starring Bill Williams
Norma West
John Cairney
Music by Elisabeth Lutyens
Philip Martell
Cinematography Geoffrey Faithfull
Edited by Robert Winter
Production
company
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release dates
 1967
Running time
 65 min.
Country United Kingdom
Language English

Spaceflight IC-1: An Adventure in Space is a 1965 black-and-white British Sci-Fi movie starring Bill Williams and Norma West. The civilized world is controlled by an all-powerful computerized government that is carefully choosing colonists for its newest space launch. The candidates are selected on the basis of their age, health and IQ.[1] The director was Bernard Knowles and the writer was Harry Spalding.

Plot summary

In the year 2015, spaceship IC-1 (Interstellar Colony #1) travels toward a planet similar to Earth to explore the possibility that the population problem on Earth can eventually be solved there. IC-1 's crew consists of Capt. Mead Ralston (Bill Williams), his wife Jan (Norma West), Drs. Steven (John Cairney) and Helen Thomas (Linda Marlowe), two other married couples, and four people in suspended animation. One year into the voyage, Helen is found to have a fatal pancreatic infection that can only be cured if the ship returns to Earth, but Captain Ralston refuses to turn back; and when he denies her permission to have another child, she commits suicide.[2]

Steven and some of the other crew members mutiny and imprison Captain Ralston. When Capt. Ralston escapes, he forces the crew to obey him by threatening to destroy the ship. Ralston plans to execute Steven. Ignoring the warnings of the crew, he releases one of the "animates" by raising the temperature of the compartment in which it is suspended, and the "animate" kills him before dying of complications caused by the thawing out process. The ship goes on under Steven's leadership.[3]

Cast

References

  1. ↑ http://www.answers.com/topic/spaceflight-ic-1
  2. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059744/
  3. ↑ http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=563262
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