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Released
1972 · FILM

The Astronaut

Runtime
73 min
DramaTV MovieScience Fiction

Synopsis

When an American astronaut is lost during a mission to Mars, a complex deception is set in motion. Fearing the loss of public support and government funding, space agency officials orchestrate a cover-up by using an exact double to impersonate the missing astronaut. The ruse begins to falter when the astronaut's wife realizes she is living with an imposter. Though initially angry about the deception, she finds herself falling in love with the replacement and considers keeping the secret. However, both the wife and the impostor change their minds when they learn that a new Mars mission is being planned, prompting them to decide to reveal the truth.

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Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Les GreenShot by Alric Edens

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