Stone and Hall retrieve the satellite and find two survivors, a 69-year-old alcoholic man named Peter Jackson and a six-month-old infant, Manuel Rios.
Two other townspeople have committed suicide after going insane. They soon discover that almost all of the victims' blood has crystallized, causing rapid death. They find that the town's doctor had opened the satellite in his office and that all of his blood has crystallized into a powder. Mark Hall, a surgeon, are dropped in Piedmont by helicopter. Suspecting that the satellite has brought back an alien organism, the military activates an elite team of scientists. A military recovery team from Vandenberg Air Force Base tries to recover the satellite but is unsuccessful. government satellite crashes near the small rural town of Piedmont, New Mexico, almost all of the town's residents die. Jeremy Stone as he testifies before the United States Senate Committee on Space Sciences:Īfter a U.S. New trailer and poster of Kung Fu Panda 2 - Kaboom.The story unfolds in flashback, told by Dr.New trailer of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyag.God of War - Ghost of Sparta Soundtrack.Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore Soundtrac.Intrada's premiere release of Gil Mellé's score features the original LP program, remastered from the original LP master tapes in pristine condition and is limited to 1500 units.
Such seemingly normal instruments as pianos, string basses and percussion were electronically mutated into new musical forms as Mellé performed live in his temporary studio at Universal.The result of Mellé’s unique synthesis of sound effects and music was a Golden Globe-nominated score, one that not only captured the haunting, suspenseful sterility of Wise’s vision, but also the throbbing, sinister evolution of something truly alien amidst the “sci-fi” scoring that had come before it. He also recorded a wealth of organic sounds, from pins being knocked down at a bowling alley to buzz saws in a lumber mill. Mellé rose to the challenge by creating such new electronic instruments as the Percussotron, the world’s first percussion synthesizer. The Andromeda Strain was made even more challenging by Robert Wise’s desire to have electronics deliver the emotional impact of a traditional score without ever sounding like one.
Pushing boundaries was always in the bloodstream of Mellé. While The Andromeda Strain also broke new technical ground with the computer assisted effects by 2001’s Douglas Trumbull, perhaps the film’s most dazzling achievement would be Gil Mellé’s electronic score, the first of its kind truly composed to picture. Directed by Robert Wise, the film offered a gripping tone of near-clinical realism reinforced by his “non-star” casting of such theater veterans as Arthur Hill and Kate Reid, the graphic “deaths” of Andromeda’s animal victims, and theĮnormous, cylindrical sets for “Project Wildfire.” After nearly wiping out a small New Mexico town, the code-named “Andromeda Strain” is brought to an underground desert research facility where a team of scientists try to destroy the ever-mutating organism. Based on author Michael Crichton's novel, the 1971 Universal film The Andromeda Strain tells a documentary-style tale of a military probe that returns to Earth bearing an instantly lethal microscopic virus.