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Three astronauts, Pruett (Richard Crenna), Stone (James Franciscus) and Lloyd (Gene Hackman), have been in orbit for five months. Deterioration of reflex and temperament have set in so markedly that the two can deliver only muted snuffles back to earth. "Return!" comes the order from Charles Keith (Gregory Peck) at Mission Control. But the retrorockets misfire. With less than 48 hours of oxygen left, Control decides to abandon the boys to God and Walter Cronkite-at least until the entrance of crusty Space Veteran Ted Dougherty (David Janssen...
...three other major roles, Richard Crenna and Jack Weston as the other two menacers, and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as Miss Hepburn's husband, are fine. It is interesting to speculate that Crenna and Zimbalist could almost have reversed roles without altering the film. But then again, Efrem Zimbalist as a menace? Who would believe...
Still, Audrey Hepburn's honest, posture-free performance helps to suspend the audience's disbelief. She is immensely aided by the heavies: Jack Weston, Richard Crenna, and Alan Arkin playing his first straight roles-triple portrayals of a Peter Lorre-like psychopathic killer, a white-haired father and his smarmy son. With virtuosity, Hepburn and Arkin collaborate to revive an old theme-The-Helpless-Girl-Against-the-Odds-that has been out of fashion since Dorothy McGuire and Barbara Stanwyck screamed for help in The Spiral Staircase and Sorry, Wrong Number. If Hollywood is still counting money...
...crew, which seems to stand for the U.S. public, is shown as a lazy collective lummox that just wants to live comfortably. The captain (Richard Crenna), who talks like a Jules Feiffer caricature of Lyndon Baines Jingo, acts at the critical juncture like a militaristic maniac. The hero (Steve McQueen), who is known as Holman, but let that pass, is apparently intended to symbolize fine young men who die in battle needlessly...
...plot collapses around Shirley MacLaine, cast as a girl reporter who infiltrates the seraglio of King Fawz (Peter Ustinov) looking for a lewd scoop and discovers the missing Goldfarb (Richard Crenna) instead. One night, summoned to Fawz for fondling, Shirley rubs down with garlic, dons a fright wig, blacks out her teeth, stuffs upholstery under her skirts and bounces onto the sheik's bed screeching: "Come on, honey, ain't you gonna sing me a dirty song?" He doesn't, but if he did, it would be one of the movie's lesser offenses against taste...