Meteor
“It's five miles wide... it's coming at 30,000 m.p.h... there's no place on Earth to hide!”
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 that 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, which has also launched such an illegal satellite. But will both governments agree?
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Cast
61 people
Sean Connery
Paul Bradley
Known for
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Rock
Natalie Wood
Tatiana Donskaya
Known for
West Side Story
Rebel Without a Cause
Karl Malden
Harry Sherwood
Known for
Patton
On the Waterfront
Brian Keith
Dr. Dubov
Known for
The Parent Trap
The Wind and the Lion
Martin Landau
General Adlon
Known for
Ed Wood
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Trevor Howard
Michael Hughes
Known for
The Third Man
Gandhi
Richard Dysart
Secretary of Defense
Known for
The Thing
Back to the Future Part III
Henry Fonda
The President
Known for
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Grapes of Wrath
Joseph Campanella
General Easton
Known for
Spider-Man
Days of Our Lives
Bo Brundin
Rolf Manheim
Known for
The Great Waldo Pepper
Raise the Titanic
Katherine De Hetre
Jan Watkins
Also in
Joni
Looker
James G. Richardson
Alan Marshall
Known for
Super Fly
Ronald Neame Director · Edmund H. North Screenplay Stanley Mann Screenplay
Worldwide gross $13M · Budget $16M · United States release October 19, 1979
Box office
Budget
$16,000,000
Worldwide gross
$12,600,000
Gross vs. budget
0.8×
Production
American International Pictures
Production
Palladium Productions
Production
Shaw Brothers
Production
Meteor Joint Venture
Production
United States · Hong Kong SAR China
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · French · Russian
Release dates
United States · October 19, 1979
Theatrical
Germany
February 21, 1980 · Theatrical
Thailand
March 14, 1980 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
December 20, 1979 · Theatrical
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