The British version of Apollo 13 deals with our 1959 mission to put the first man in space. We being modest & unassuming Brits we never bothered mentioning it.
Our astronaut,well played by Edmund Kingsley, got himself in a bit of a pickle and after losing contact with his controller managed to veer off course and end up talking to the Russians and NASA who were a bit miffed that Blighty had beaten the lot of them into space.
Kingsley did a sterling job carrying the whole movie and deserves a wider audience. This great bit of secret British History was something I never learned at school and we can be rightly proud that our man was the first into space. I am sure we never mentioned our moon landing in 1967 or our base on Mars but then that's the British for you. We are never ones to blow our own trumpet.
A nice little space drama, well acted and with a nice twist at the end. Even if you, like me, will probably figure it out before the end.
Our astronaut,well played by Edmund Kingsley, got himself in a bit of a pickle and after losing contact with his controller managed to veer off course and end up talking to the Russians and NASA who were a bit miffed that Blighty had beaten the lot of them into space.
Kingsley did a sterling job carrying the whole movie and deserves a wider audience. This great bit of secret British History was something I never learned at school and we can be rightly proud that our man was the first into space. I am sure we never mentioned our moon landing in 1967 or our base on Mars but then that's the British for you. We are never ones to blow our own trumpet.
A nice little space drama, well acted and with a nice twist at the end. Even if you, like me, will probably figure it out before the end.