The only thing English about the character was the actor and the accent.Įven if Malcolm McDowell wasn't English himself, he was still the wrong actor for the part. Years later, in the movie/story's "present" he is working with an American law enforcement agency and US Army and Air Force personnel in an American city. Red Rock Canyon, CA, USA A scene from Capricorn One. Credit: ASSOCIATED GENERAL/LEW GRADE / Album. it occurs when the sun is directly over the Tropic of Capricorn. Capricorn One CAPRICORN ONE poster for 1978 Associated General film with Elliot Gould. Also included is a theatrical trailer and image gallery. Capricorn One (1977) Plot Showing all 8 items Jump to: Summaries (7) Synopsis (1) Summaries When the first manned flight to Mars is deemed unsafe and scrubbed on the launch pad, anxious authorities must scramble to save face and retain their funding - and so an unthinkable plot to fake the mission is hatched. The footage is pretty scratched, washed out and unedited. The picture is an improvement from the broadcasts in the eighties but one of the few cases where another medium. the length of day will range from about 12 hours and six and one-half minutes at. On Set with Capricorn One is raw behind the scenes footage that’s broken up into two sections 40 minutes of desert filming with Brolin, Gould and Savalas, and a mere four minutes on the Mars set with the principal actors. The results are good, but compared to the sterling transfer on laserdisc, this one suffers from many print problems. What makes you so sure that he was supposed to be English? In the flashbacks, he was flying with an American pilot (Roy Scheider) in an American helicopter and he was wearing an American uniform. Capricorn One is given the non-anamorphic treatment on this DVD in beautiful Panavision in the 2.35:1 aspect ratio. believe it or not, some Brits did serve in Viet Nam (on exchange), as did a whole bunch of Australians (which nearly everyone over here seems to forget). Malcolm McDowell wasn't supposed to be American at all, but English. Yeah, but Malcolm McDowell was absolutely wrong for that part - C'mon, I mean an Englishman playing an American Vietnam vet? Who's brilliant idea was that?
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