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It was directed by Ronald Neame and with a screenplay by Edmund H. North and Stanley Mann and co-starring Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Martin Landau, Trevor Howard, Henry Fonda,
Scientists detect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth and struggle with international, cold war politics in their efforts to prevent disaster.
The opening sequence involves a crew of astronauts that observes a collision between a comet and an asteroid named OrpheusFor other senses of the word Orpheus, see Orpheus (disambiguation). Gustave Moreau ( 1880) In Greek legend, Orpheus was the chief representative of the arts of song and the lyre, and of great importance in the religious history of Greece. He was a Greek o. The astronauts and their ship are then destroyed by a fragment from the collision. Back on Earth, Dr. Paul Bradley (Connery) is dragged reluctantly to the offices of his former boss (Malden). They view the videoVideo is the technology of processing electronic signals representing moving pictures. A major application of video technology is television, but it is also widely used in engineering, scientific, manufacturing, and security applications. Other uses of vi footage of the doomed astronauts and it's explained that Orpheus is on a collision course with Earth.
While the United StatesThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in governmentA government is an organization that has the power to make and enforce laws for a certain territory. There are several definitions on what exactly constitutes a government. The government has been defined as the dominant decision-making arm (the policy el and militaryMilitary (from latin militarius miles "soldier") as an adjective describes anything related to soldiers and warfare. Used as a noun, it is equivalent to Armed force. See also Armed force Martial art Militaria Military history Military rule Military by cou engage in political maneuvering, other smaller and faster moving fragments rain down on Earth. The major plot point involves secret orbitFor other meanings of the term "orbit", see orbit (disambiguation In physics, an orbit is the path that an object makes, around another object, whilst under the influence of a source of centripetal force, such as gravity. History Orbits were first analyseing nuclear missileA nuclear missile is a type of: missile nuclear weapon It could also refer to a missile with some form of nuclear propulsion, such as the Project Pluto cruise missile. platforms, one put up by Dr. Bradley's team for the U.S. and another constructed by his counterpart in the Soviet Union. Both governments are reluctant to admit to the existence of these orbital weapons because they be found in violation of international treaties (unnamed in the film but presumably like the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
The two superpowers finally agree to combine their weapons to deflect Orpheus from collision.
Similar films released in the 1990s included Armageddon and Deep Impact..
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