This film predates my birth by a few years coming out clear back in 1971. The only wear that it’s really worse for though is a bit of tech. The computers are a bit old, but fortunately for The Andromeda Strain, the story holds up pretty well and the acting was pretty good here.
This movie, based on the Michael Crichton book of the same name, follows the actions of a group of specialists after the return of a satellite doesn’t go quite as planned. The recovery crew rolls into the town of Piedmont, New Mexico, finds that the residents appear to all be dead, and are shortly thereafter not heard from again themselves. A secondary recovery crew heads in a bit more cautiously, retrieves the fallen satellite, then begins the painstaking process of figuring out just what sort of organism it brought back from the depths of space. Whatever it is seems to spread very easily and is very quickly lethal. The confusion is compounded by the survival of two residents, an old drunk and a hungry and upset baby.
The pacing and the tension are kept up well, and hokey 70’s feel aside, it was a pretty good flick. I’d recommend it.
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