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 dates	July 1967 (UK); October 1965 (USA);
Running time	65 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Spaceflight IC-1, also known as Space Spaceflight IC-1: An Adventure in Space, is a 1965 British science-fiction movie directed by Bernard Knowles and starring Bill Williams and Norma West.^[1] It was written by Harry Spalding (as Henry Cross). The civilized world is controlled by an all-powerful computerised government which sends colonists into space.

Plot summary[edit]

In 2015, spaceship IC-1 (Interstellar Colony #1) travels toward a planet similar to Earth to explore the possibility it could solve the Earth's population problems. The crew comprises Captain Mead Ralston, his wife Jan, Drs. Steven and Helen Thomas, two other married couples, and four people – "animates" – 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 Ralston refuses to turn back. When he denies her permission to have another child, she commits suicide.

Steven Thomas and some of the other crew members mutiny and imprison Ralston. He escapes and forces the crew to obey him by threatening to destroy the ship. Ignoring the crew's warnings he releases one of the "animates" who kills him before dying of complications from the thawing-out process. The ship goes on under Thomas's leadership.

Cast[edit]

Bill Williams as Capt. Mead Ralston
Norma West as Jan Ralston
John Cairney as Dr. Steven Thomas
Jeremy Longhurst as John Saunders, Chief Engineer
Donald Churchill as Carl Wolcott
Kathleen Breck as Kate Saunders
Margo McLennan as Joyce Wolcott (credited as Margo Mayne)
Linda Marlowe as Dr. Helen Thomas
John Lee as Dr. Garth
Andrew Downie as Capt. Burnett (spacestation)
Mark Lester as Don Saunders
Stuart Middleton as Michael Thomas
Anthony Honour as Robert Wolcott
Tony Doonan as Dr. Griffith
Chuck Julian as Webster

Production[edit]

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 said 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."^[2]

References[edit]

^ "Spaceflight IC-1". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
^ 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[edit]

Spaceflight IC-1 at IMDb
Spaceflight IC-1 at AllMovie
Spaceflight IC-1 at the TCM Movie Database

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[BFIsearch-1] "Spaceflight IC-1". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 29 December 2023.

[2] 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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