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Meteor
It's five miles wide... it's coming at 30,000 m.p.h... there's no place on Earth to hide!
( Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller )


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US Runtime: 107 min

Country of Origin: United States of America

Premiere Date:
Oct 19, 1979   [USA]
 
Director: Ronald Neame   [Director]
 
Writers: Stanley Mann   [Screenplay]
Edmund H. North   [Screenplay]
Edmund H. North   [Story]
 
Producers: Samuel Z. Arkoff   [Executive Producer]
Sandy Howard   [Executive Producer]
Gabriel Katzka   [Executive Producer]
Arnold H. Orgolini   [Producer]
Theodore R. Parvin   [Producer]
Run Run Shaw   [Producer]
 
Cinematography: Paul Lohmann   [Director of Photography]
 
Edited by: Carl Kress   [Editor]
 
Music Composed by Laurence Rosenthal   [Original Music Composer]
 
Production Design: Edward C. Carfagno   [Production Design]
 
Costume Design: Albert Wolsky   [Costume Design]
 
Casting by Bill Ewing   [Casting Coordinator]
 
Production Companys: American International Pictures   (US)
Meteor Joint Venture
Palladium Productions
 


Plot Summary:

    The U.S. must join forces with the U.S.S.R. in order to destroy a gigantic asteroid heading straight for Earth.

Cast: (First 20, for the rest click 'Show All Cast & Crew' below.)

Sean Connery
Paul Bradley
Natalie Wood
Tatiana Donskaya
Karl Malden
Harry Sherwood
Brian Keith
Dr. Dubov
Martin Landau
General Adlon
Trevor Howard
Sir Michael Hughes
Richard Dysart
Secretary of Defense
Henry Fonda
The President
Joseph Campanella
General Easton
Bo Brundin
Rolf Manheim
 
Katherine De Hetre
Jan Watkins
James G. Richardson
Alan Marshall
Roger Robinson
Bill Hunter
Michael Zaslow
Sam Mason
John Findlater
Astronaut Tom Easton
Paul Tulley
Astronaut Bill Frager
Allen Williams
Astronaut Michael McKendrick
Bibi Besch
Helen Bradley
Gregory Gaye
Russian Premier
Clyde Kusatsu
Yamashiro
 
 

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Tech Info:

Budget:
$16,000,000
Revenue:
$12,600,000

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