The Stranger

Feb 26, 1973

1h 34m

★ 3.6

The planet he uncovered was a twin to Earth...but so ominously different!

Overview

An astronaut enters a vortex and crash-lands on a parallel planet where he's not welcome.

Genres

TV Movie

Science Fiction

Drama

Production Companies

Bing Crosby Productions

The Stranger Trailers

Cast

Neil Stryker

Glenn Corbett

George Benedict

Cameron Mitchell

Dr. Bettina Cooke

Sharon Acker

Prof. Dylan MacAuley

Lew Ayres

Max Greene

George Coulouris

Carl Webster

Dean Jagger

Henry Maitland

Steve Franken

Dr. Revere

Tim O'Connor

Steve Perry

Jerry Douglas

Mike Frome

Arch Whiting

Eric Stoner

H.M. Wynant

Truck Driver

William Bryant

The year is 1997, and World Peace seems to have come, with most classic weapons of mass destruction having been abandoned. However, orbiting the Earth there is the European/American space station FLORIDA ARKLAB, capable of controlling the weather at any location on the planet underneath. A civil project by nature, it might be abused as an offensive weapon, since it could deliver devastation to any potential adversary simply by creating natural disasters such as storms and floods. No wonder the space station soon becomes the central point in rising political tensions between East and West, next stop World War 3 (as indicated by the tagline "The end of our future has already begun"). We follow the main protagonist Billy Hayes, an astronaut aboard the station, as he wades through a plot of secrecy and sabotage trying to tell friend from foe in the process.

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5.7

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4.8

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3.9

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4.5

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3.7

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6.2

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6.1

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6.3

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2.2

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1.5

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5.3

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6.2

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