CAPRICORN ONE

Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro

Warner Bros.; Directed by Peter Hyams

Rated PG; 123 minutes; 1978

Classic conspiracy tale about the first manned mission to Mars. All appears to be going well until the astronauts are pulled off the ship just before launch by shadowy government types and whisked off to a film studio in the desert. It transpires that the space vehicle

has a major defect which NASA just can’t admit.