Marooned (1969)

Directed by John Sturges

Massively underrated and largely forgotten movie.  Directed by the dependable John Sturges shortly after the release of 2001: A Space Odyssey.  Nowadays, the reputation of this film seems largely formed by science fiction fans watching it and their subsequent massive disappointment that it's not Star Wars.  There's no swash-buckling space operatics to be found here, this is a tense ship wreck drama set in space.  It is a realistic sort of science fiction with effects done to the standards of the time.

It was later recut and re-released by some purveyor of ultra-budget home video movies.  This version was later on MST3K.  This probably didn't help the movie's reputation.

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