Spaceflight IC-1

Spaceflight IC-1
Spaceflight IC-1
	Original film poster
Directed by	Bernard Knowles
Written by	Henry Cross
Produced by	Robert Lippert; Jack Parsons
Starring	Bill Williams; Norma West; John Cairney
Cinematography	Geoffrey Faithfull
Edited by	Robert Winter; Colin Miller
Music by	Elisabeth Lutyens; Philip Martell
Production; company	Lippert Films
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	1967
Running time	65 min.
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Spaceflight IC-1: An Adventure in Space is a 1965 black-and-white British science-fiction movie starring Bill Williams and Norma West. The civilized world is controlled by an all-powerful computerized government that is carefully choosing colonists for its newest space launch. The candidates are selected on the basis of their age, health and IQ.^[1]

The director was Bernard Knowles and the writer was Harry Spalding working under the name "Henry Cross".

Plot summary[]

In the year 2015, spaceship IC-1 (Interstellar Colony #1) travels toward a planet similar to Earth to explore the possibility that the population problem on Earth can eventually be solved there. IC-1's crew consists of Capt. Mead Ralston (Bill Williams), his wife Jan (Norma West), Drs. Steven (John Cairney) and Helen Thomas (Linda Marlowe), two other married couples, and four people in suspended animation. One year into the voyage, Helen is found to have a fatal pancreatic infection that can only be cured if the ship returns to Earth, but Captain Ralston refuses to turn back; and when he denies her permission to have another child, she commits suicide.^[2]

Steven and some of the other crew members mutiny and imprison Captain Ralston. When Capt. Ralston escapes, he forces the crew to obey him by threatening to destroy the ship. Ralston plans to execute Steven. Ignoring the warnings of the crew, he releases one of the "animates" by raising the temperature of the compartment in which it is suspended, and the "animate" kills him before dying of complications caused by the thawing out process. The ship goes on under Steven's leadership.^[3]

Cast[]

Bill Williams as Capt. Mead Ralston
Norma West as Jan Ralston
John Cairney as Dr. Steven Thomas
as John Saunders, Chief Engineer
Donald Churchill as Carl Wolcott
Kathleen Breck as Kate Saunders
Margo McLennan as Joyce Wolcott (as Margo Mayne)
Linda Marlowe as Dr. Helen Thomas
John Lee as Dr. Garth
as Capt. Burnett (Spacestation)
Mark Lester as Don Saunders
as Michael Thomas
as Robert Wolcott
as Dr. Griffith
as Webster

Production[]

The film was shot in England at Shepperton Studios. It was one of several films that Robert L. Lippert made with Jack Parsons in England. Writer Harry Spalding says the film was inspired by space exploration at the time. "There was a lot of talk back then that if people were ever having to go to fly to Mars they'd have to be frozen for the trip and revived when they got there."^[4]

References[]

^ "SPACEFLIGHT IC-1". Monthly Film Bulletin. London. 34 (396): 109. 1 January 1967. ProQuest 1305838510.
^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059744/^{[full citation needed]}
^ http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=563262^{[full citation needed]}
^ Weaver, Tom (19 February 2003). Double Feature Creature Attack: A Monster Merger of Two More Volumes of Classic Interviews. McFarland. p. 332. ISBN 9780786482153.

External links[]

Spaceflight IC-1 at IMDb
Spaceflight IC-1 at AllMovie
Spaceflight IC-1 at the TCM Movie Database
Spaceflight IC-1 at the American Film Institute Catalog
Spaceflight IC-1 at BFI

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[1] "SPACEFLIGHT IC-1". Monthly Film Bulletin. London. 34 (396): 109. 1 January 1967. ProQuest 1305838510.

[2] ttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059744/^{[full citation needed]}

[3] ttp://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=563262^{[full citation needed]}

[4] Weaver, Tom (19 February 2003). Double Feature Creature Attack: A Monster Merger of Two More Volumes of Classic Interviews. McFarland. p. 332. ISBN 9780786482153.

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