Meteor poster
Director Ronald Neame
Screenplay Stanley Mann, Edmund H. North

Meteor

Tagline: It's five miles wide... it's coming at 30,000 m.p.h... there's no place on Earth to hide!

Release Date: 1979-10-19

Duration: 107 minutes

Synopsis

After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it hits it will cause an incredible catastrophe which will probably extinguish mankind. To stop the meteor NASA wants to use the illegal nuclear weapon satellite "Hercules" but discovers soon that it doesn't have enough firepower. Their only chance to save the world is to join forces with the USSR who have also launched such an illegal satellite. But will both governments agree?

Casting

  • Sean Connery
    Paul Bradley
  • Natalie Wood
    Tatiana Donskaya
  • Karl Malden
    Harry Sherwood
  • Henry Fonda
    The President
  • Sybil Danning
    Girl Skier
  • Trevor Howard
    Sir Michael Hughes
  • Brian Keith
    Dr. Dubov
  • Martin Landau
    General Adlon
  • Simon Cadell
    British News Reporter (uncredited)
  • Clyde Kusatsu
    Yamashiro