{"id":530,"date":"2013-11-18T23:40:29","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T12:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/?p=530"},"modified":"2013-11-18T23:40:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T12:40:29","slug":"review-marooned-1969","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/11\/18\/review-marooned-1969\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Marooned (1969)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little gem of a film from the sixties starring an all-star cast of Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Marooned-Crew.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-533\" alt=\"Marooned-Crew\" src=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Marooned-Crew-300x128.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a>David Janssen, James Franciscus and Gene Hackman, I can see now where Tom Hanks pinched the idea for <em>Apollo 13<\/em> from, as it was clearly a direct remake of this film.<\/p>\n<p>What gives this film a lot of character is that it was made the same year as the original moon landing and it paints a less than rosy view of the space program as a whole: What if things go wrong and Astronauts end up <em>Marooned<\/em> as the title suggests?<\/p>\n<p>In terms of sets and costume the film maintains an authenticity a director could only achieve by making it at near to the time it is set (I suppose that&#8217;s why <em>Apocalypse Now<\/em> is such a superior Vietnam War film).<\/p>\n<p>Despite seeming a bit dated by the old space technology, this film remains well worth a watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little gem of a film from the sixties starring an all-star cast of Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, James Franciscus and Gene Hackman, I can see now where Tom Hanks pinched the idea for Apollo 13 from, as it was clearly a direct remake of this film. What gives this film a lot &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/11\/18\/review-marooned-1969\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: Marooned (1969)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}