Directed with clinical precision by Robert wise, this record of the earth's first biological crisis is perhaps the most painstakingly authentic science - fiction thrillers ever made. When a satellite falls to earth near a remote New Mexican village, the recovery team finds everyone in the area dead excepts an infant and an old derelict. The survivors are brought to a five story under-ground lab - one of the most elaborate and intricate sets ever assembled in Hollywood - where scientists attempt to determine the nature of the deadly microbe before it starts a world-wide epidemic. A trailer-blazer in the realm of science-fact, THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN is based on Michael Crichton's best-selling novel that created national paranoia for its topical relevance to the first moon landing.
