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"A deadly bacteria is brought to Earth via a crashed sattelite. Everybody dies in the desert town where it fell, except for a screaming baby and an old drunk. It is up to a team of scientist to find out why, before the bacteria wipes out all human life on Earth. The film is brilliantly designed, well acted and well plotted (as a mystery). The novel it was based on is an early example of Crichton's distrust of Science, the film was directed by Robert Wise. With Arthur Hill, James Olson, Kate Reid, David Wayne. 1971."
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Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 60%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%

**Fantasy or Science Fiction?** - science fiction story
Explore/1st contact Yes
Technology/$$$$/Info hunt Yes
Stealing/recovering/destroying - cure/disease
Environmental disaster? - preventing ecological disaster

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - scientist
Age: - 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Hair color? - brunette (Brown)
Hair type - (man) short/medium straight
Body type - average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Female
Hair color - brunette (Brown)
Hair style - (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavy
Body type - ample chest & buttocks (female)
How much in movie? - 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)

Main Adversary
Identity: - a fight for survival
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 60%

Setting
Earth setting: - 20th century (1970's to Present)
Takes place on Earth? Yes
Desert? Yes
Big cities? Yes
Kind of city - Beautiful sparkling advanced city
Small town? Yes

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - very explicit references to deaths and torture
Tone of movie - fearful
Any profanity? - None
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE... - Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a - book

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