Journey to the Far Side of the Sun
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Robert Parrish
Ian Hendry
Roy Thinnes
Patrick Wymark
Lynn Loring
Loni Von Friedl
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
In the 21st century, Jason Webb, the director of an international scientific organization, finds evidence of a planet similar to Earth in orbit on the far side of the sun. Webb, in order to encourage U. S. politicians to provide funding for the construction of a spaceship to make the journey, discloses that Dr. Hassler, one of the scientists working on the project, is an espionage agent. The spaceship is built, and veteran astronaut Col. Glenn Ross and British astrophysicist John Kane are assigned to the crew. The two men are placed in a state of suspended animation, and the rocket is launched. In 3 weeks their ship crashes on a planet that seems to be Earth, and Kane is seriously injured. They are rescued by an unidentified spacecraft and returned to Webb's headquarters, where Kane dies of his injuries. Unable to explain to Webb why the mission lasted only half the scheduled duration, Ross realizes that everything, including newspaper print, is reversed to him; he theorizes that the new planet is an exact duplicate, a mirror-image, of Earth. Webb is convinced to finance another flight to prove the theory, but the second ship crashes into the research center, killing everyone but Webb. No one believes his story, and he is taken to a sanitarium.
Director
Robert Parrish
Cast
Ian Hendry
Roy Thinnes
Patrick Wymark
Lynn Loring
Loni Von Friedl
Herbert Lom
George Sewell
Franco Derosa
Edward Bishop
Philip Madoc
Vladek Sheybal
George Mikell
Crew
Gerry Anderson
Gerry Anderson
Gerry Anderson
Sylvia Anderson
Sylvia Anderson
Bob Bell
Brian Burgess
Elsa Fennell
Barry Gray
Ernest Holding
Donald James
Ted Karnon
Derek Meddings
John O'connor
Harry Oakes
John Peverill
Ken Rawkins
John Read
Barbara Ritchie
Geoffrey Rodway
Len Walter
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Does our side have anything like this?- David Poulson
We do now.- Mark Neuman
When are you going to nail him?- Jason Webb
That depends on how much rope we give him,- Mark Neuman
Lisa! This access restriction, it must be widened.- Jason Webb
To whom?- Lisa Hartmann
Hassler, Doctor Hassler!- Jason Webb
You are going to sit there and watch me take a man for one billion dollars.- Jason Webb
The words of an egotistical megalomaniac.- John Kane
Remind me to be as charitable to you when one of your rockets blows up on the pad.- Jason Webb
You know when a rocket is ready, but you don't know when a man is ready, Kane isn't.- Glenn Ross
I know more about human nature than anyone else here at EuroSEC. That's why I am in this office.- Jason Webb
I could grow attached to those.- John Kane
That's the idea. Now you can be hooked up to the heart, lung, and kidney machine during flight. With sedation, you'll sleep, three weeks there, and three weeks back.- Dr. Pontini
That part I'm looking forward to.- John Kane
Trivia
Notes
Opened in London in October 1969 as Doppelgänger.
