An ambitious sci-fier from the Disney folks, The Black Hole takes place in the future. A quintet of space travelers stumble across a "black hole." Not wishing to be sucked into the void, the crew prepares to flee, but stops long enough to investigate a mysterious space vessel near the entrance of the hole. Manning this craft is mad scientist Dr. Hans Reinhardt (Maximillian Schell), who intends to explore the black hole in hopes of finding the universe's energy source. The cast includes Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster, ...
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An ambitious sci-fier from the Disney folks, The Black Hole takes place in the future. A quintet of space travelers stumble across a "black hole." Not wishing to be sucked into the void, the crew prepares to flee, but stops long enough to investigate a mysterious space vessel near the entrance of the hole. Manning this craft is mad scientist Dr. Hans Reinhardt (Maximillian Schell), who intends to explore the black hole in hopes of finding the universe's energy source. The cast includes Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster, Yvette Mimieux, and others. The Black Hole marked one of the Disney company's first PG-rated films. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster, Joseph Bottoms, Yvette Mimieux. Very good in very good packaging. Language: English. Run time: 97 mins. Aspect ratio: 2.35: 1. Originally released: 1979. VERY NICE
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Slim Pickens, Roddy McDowall, Tommy McLoughlin, Ernest Borgnine, Yvette Mimieux, Joseph Bottoms, Robert Forster, Anthony... Very good. 1979 Run time: 98. Providing great media since 1972. All used discs are inspected and guaranteed. Digital copy/codes may be expired or not included. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
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Slim Pickens, Roddy McDowall, Tommy McLoughlin, Ernest Borgnine, Yvette Mimieux, Joseph Bottoms, Robert Forster, Anthony... Very good. 1979 Run time: 98. Providing great media since 1972. All used discs are inspected and guaranteed. Digital copy/codes may be expired or not included. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
TITLE: The Black Hole
GENRE: SciFi, distant future, galactic exploration
CAST: Robert Forster, Maximillian Schell, Yvette Mimieux, Anthony Perkins, Ernest Borgnine, Joseph Bottoms, Roddy McDowall and Slim Pickens
PLOT: An exploration ship stumbles upon a previous enterprise orbitting a black hole. Seemingly abandoned. It instead has one human left aboard, a brilliant scientist who has learned by studying the black hole, the secret of anti-gravity. He proposes to use that power to take himself into the phenomenon. Things don't workout as he planned as the crew of the newer ship want to leave and he wants them to watch him make history.
RETRUN ON INVESTMENT: 9.2 of 10; Just for being the first Disney film to fail to garner a general rating because of some 'cussing', this is worth the view. There were 150 matte drawings employed to generate the backdrops. Star Wars only had 75! This was accomplished as the last big budget film that didn't rely on computer generated graphics so it displays the pinnacle of brute force cinematographic effects. The sound track (scored by John Barry of James Bond fame) WAS the first digitized sound recording for a motion picture. The acting is as to be expected from such a veteran cast. Did I mention Yvette Mimieux was in this?
DVD BONUS: a "The Making of ..." feature called "Through The Black Hole" hosted by Production Designer Peter Ellenshaw's son (who supervised the aforementioned matte work); and, a three minute version of the trailer.
ADDED NOTES: The broadcast versions of the film ran into trouble because the ending chosen by Disney's execs was a contrasting of heaven and hell, a place referenced a few times in the original. Please do not let the possiblity of hearing hell spoken aloud deter you from seeing the beauty of this film, a little piece of Heaven for us to enjoy. Another inovation of the 'brute' kind here was that to help hide the wires in the floating scenes, the sets were built upside down so the wires (if you see them) rise up from the floor where no one looks for them!
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