Marooned (Columbia Pictures) (1969)

THE CAST Charles Metin {isc ee bh, 1 a1 Ae eae ee RO Ted Dougherty os. cicisestcessssilneses Buzz Lloyd Astronauts’ Wives Celia: Pipette icj:uiecnalaicckin Nancy Kovack Deby Loy ee aise cccnsees Mariette Hartley Teretn Gratien 6) CF pe So Mission Control Public Affairs Officer .................. A FRANKOVICH-STURGES Production Gregory Peck Richard Crenna David Janssen Clayton Stone! 22030. cages: James Franciscus By atten ef Saran beh Gene Hackman Lee Grant Scott Brady Plight Director... .....5s0 ic. Craig Huebing PUY SRO scscash tbiisen eta ules: Mission Director .................... George Gaynes Tom Stewart Air Force Officers Space Systems Director .............. Titan Systems Specialist .............. Launch Director .................. News Commentators Priscilla Keith John Carter Frank Marth Duke Hobbie Dennis Robertson George Smith Vincent Van Lynn Walter Brooke Mauritz Hugo Russian Cosmonaut ...................... LEE GRANT PANAVISION® OFFICIAL BILLING GREGORY PECK RICHARD CRENNA ... DAVID JANSSEN JAMES FRANCISCUS = GENE HACKMAN 100% MAROONED co-starring MARIETTE HARTLEY Screenplay by THE STORY (Not for Publication) Charles Keith, chief of the U. S. Manned Space program, awaits the return to Earth, from space, of the Ironman One. The ship misfires during re-entry and its crew—commander Jim Pruett, scientist-astronaut Clay Stone and pilot Buzz Lloyd—are marooned in space. Keith, and senior astronaut Ted Dougherty, put into operation a desperate rescue plan while the world—and the astronauts’ wives—watch and wait. CAPSULE COMMENT: The three-man crew of the malfunctioning Ironman NANCY KOVACK MAYO SIMON Based on the novel by MARTIN CAIDIN Produced by M. J. FRANKOVICH Directed by JOHN STURGES EASTMAN COLOR Fron COLUMBIA PICTURES THE CREDITS 100% Produced by ..............00005 M. J. Frankovich as Ted 199 Le Me) acer. Mee ne ene John Sturges Dougherty Screenplay by ..................::c Mayo Simon Based on the novel by .............. Martin Caidin Associate Producer ................ Frank Capra, Jr. Production Designer ............ Lyle R. Wheeler Director of Photography....Daniel Fapp, A.S.C. Film Editor Walter Thompson Second Unit Director .................. Ralph Black Director of Photography, Sdeond Unit :...5.5..02.5 W. Wallace Kelley 100% oe Aerial Photography .................. Nelson Tyler 25% Special Visual Effects ...... Lawrence W. Butler, 25%, Donald C. Glouner, Robie Robinson Photographic Consultant....William Widmayer 25% Video Supervisor ..............0.005. Hal Landaker 25% Sound ............ Les Fresholtz, Arthur Piantadosi Set Decorator ............0:.:cceee Frank Tuttle 25% ec (1 ean A Rp Seth Banks 25% Executive Production Manager ...............0.5.. William O'Sullivan Assistant Director .......... Daniel J. McCauley Dialog Goach: 255 Auicades. Norman Stuart Script Supervisor :5.45..c003004... John Franco Technical Advisors Martin Caidin, George Smith Eastman Color Filmed in Panavision® A Frankovich-Sturges Production A Columbia Pictures Release One is marooned in space while Mission Control works desperately to Running Time: 134 minutes rescue them. FR RR I RT RT RN A (Mat 3A; Still No. 78) The terror and beauty of outer space background the drama and tension of "Marooned," the Frankovich-Sturges production from Columbia Pictures in Panavision and Eastman color. Cast of the film, which tells of three U. S. astronauts stranded in space while Mission Control works frantically to rescue them, are Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, Gene Hackman and James Franciscus. Lee Grant, Nancy Kovack and Mariette Hartley co-star. M. J. Frankovich produced "Marooned" and John Sturges directed. ‘Marooned’, the Motion Picture One way to become an expert in a subject is to make an honest and truly realistic motion picture on that subject. It’s the hard way, but the end result can be pretty satisfying not only to the movie-makers but to their audiences. Such a film is “Marooned,” the Frankovich-Sturges production from Columbia Pictures in Panavision and Eastman color. Five years in the making, “Marooned” now is playing at the thes 2 oa Theatre. Story of three astronauts standed in space, due to a malfunction on their spacecraft, “Marooned” is also concerned with the desperate efforts of Mission Control to effect a rescue while the world watches. “Marooned” is based on the novel by Martin Caidin, one of America’s most distinguished writers on aviation and aerospace. The authenticity of the film might almost be assured if the book itself had served as the script. Out of the pre-photography preparation of ‘Marooned’ came an unusual by-product. The members of the team making the picture became among the best informed laymen in the country on the United States space program. Associate producer Frank Capra, Jr., for instance, spent the better part of two years working with engineers and scientists at Cape Kennedy, the Houston Space Center and the design and manufacturing companies in California learning about such technical components as design, thrust, aerodynamics, budgets, space equipment, weightlessness, etc. Production designer Lyle Wheeler, as part of his immense assignment to make sets look and represent certain space complexes, spent weeks at both Cape Kennedy and Houston. Scriptwriter Mayo Simon spent hours listening to space program workers’ dialogue, the idiomatic speech so peculiar to this group of people. He also watched their reactions to crisis, observed their relationship to each other, and came away impressed, and perhaps awed, by the people, from the astronauts to the ground crews to the wives of the personnel. Producer M. J. Frankovich and director John Sturges, and their production team also spent many days in Florida and Texas getting the “feel” of the subject they were so intent on making into a dramatic film. “Marooned” was filmed, not only in Hollywood, but at Cape Kennedy and Houston. Wher ever possible, within the confines of what was practical, the “Marooned” team filmed at actual locations called for in the script. While this increased the drama of the film, it also created certain problems for ace cinematographer Daniel Fapp. Lighting and off-camera noises became difficulties to overcome. Getting a camera in and out of the way of actual working personnel at Cape Kennedy for instance, was a must and was handled smoothly by Fapp and his crew. A lot of things can and did happen during production of a big picture like “Marooned,” which started shooting in midNovember, 1968, and continued to mid-April, 1969. Most important to Messrs. Frankovich and Sturges was, perhaps, the exploratory shot of Apollo 8, when the producer and director plus Hollywood astronauts Crenna, Franciscus and Hackman were able to do what few, if any film makers had done before them—see and hear the real astronauts Frank Borman, William Anders and Jim Lovell as they went through their duties in space, thus providing an accurate blueprint of what they themselves later would do before the cameras. Lee Grant, Nancy Kovack and Mariette Hartley are co-starred COLUMN ITEMS When producer M. J. Frankovich hosted American astronaut Eugene Cernan and two visiting Russian spacemen, Maj. Gen Georgi |. Bergevoi and Konstantin P. Fecktistov, at his Hollywood home, he also showed them "Marooned," the Frankovich-Sturges production from Columbia Pictures. The film, in Panavision and Eastman color, tells the story of astronauts stranded in space and the desperate attempt to rescue them while the world watches. To speak with the Russians, Frankovich brought in a strikingly attractive female translator, film star Natalie Wood. Miss Wood, who speaks Russian fluently, stars in another Frankovich film for Columbia, "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice.'' "Marooned" stars Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna and David Janssen as Ted Dougherty, James Franciscus and Gene Hackman. * * * John Sturges, who directed "Marooned," the FrankovichSturges production for Columbia Pictures release, was born in Ernest Hemingway's home town of Oak Park, Ill., but the two never met until Sturges filmed Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea.’ ‘'Marooned,'’ an epic space adventure produced by M. J. Frankovich in Panavision and color, stars Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna and David Janssen as Ted Dougherty; James Franciscus and Gene Hackman. ok * * Two of the three astronauts who are stranded in outer space in "Marooned," the Frankovich-Sturges production for Columbia Pictures release in Panavision and color, know what it means to get an aircraft up and keep it there. James Franciscus, as the science systems astronaut aboard the film's Ironman One, logged 3,000 hours in three years and holds a commercial license in muti-engined panes. Gene Hackman, the Apollo guidance pilot in "Marooned," has a private flying license and currently is building his own biplane. Richard Crenna, the third astronaut in the epic drama, admits he's just along for the ride, even though he plays the spacecraft commander. * * * Because of their bulky space suits, Richard Crenna, James Franciscus and Gene Hackman, portraying astronauts in ''Marooned,"' the Frankovich-Sturges production fog Columbia Pictures in Panavision and Eastman color, were unable to sit down between scenes. Instead, they employed the slanted boards, usually leaned against by elaborately-gowned female stars to protect their costumes during camera breaks. * * * A great deal of the footage of "Marooned," the FrankovichSturges production for Columbia Pictures release in Panavision and color, was actually filmed at Cape Kennedy prior to the Apollo 10 mission. Full cooperation was accorded the space adventure by the U. S. Air Force. M. J. Frankovich produced and John Sturges directed "'Marooned," which stars Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen as Ted Dougherty, James Franciscus and Gene Hackman. Lee Grant, Nancy Kovack and Mariette Hartley co-star. PRINTED IN U.S.A.