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Directed by Bernard Knowles Initial release October 1965 (USA) Screenplay Harry Spalding | 3.9/10 IMDb Cinematography Geoffrey Faithfull Director Bernard Knowles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Produced by Robert Lippert
Jack Parsons Written by Harry Spalding (aka Henry Cross) Starring Bill Williams
Norma West
John Cairney Music by Elisabeth Lutyens
Philip Martell Music director Elisabeth Lutyens, Philip Martell Producers Robert L. Lippert, Jack Parsons Cast Bill Williams, Kathleen Breck, John Cairney, Mark Lester, Norma West Similar Space exploration movies, Physician movies, Science fiction movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Trailer spaceflight ic 1
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. The director was Bernard Knowles and the writer was Harry Spalding.
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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.
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.