Capricorn One Movie Review
An Apollo-style mission to Mars stalls because Americans lack the brains to build a decent spacecraft. To ensure continued NASA funds, Hal Holbrook arranges a phony Martian landing for TV cameras in a remote desert sound-stage. Astronauts James Brolin, O.J. Simpson, and Sam Waterston learn the scheme calls for their “heroic” demise to ensure silence, and they try to escape. Remarkabl…