Réalisé par Ronald Neame avec Sean Connery, Karl Malden, Natalie Wood, Trevor Howard, Martin Landau et une brève apparition de Sybille Danning.
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00:00 Space. Timeless. Infinite. Eternal.
00:10 For countless millennia, the stars and planets traveled their silent paths in perfect harmony.
00:20 It was called Orpheus. The meteor.
00:29 Its power is greater than all the hydrogen bombs.
00:34 Its speed is greater than any rocket ever conceived.
00:40 Its force can shatter continents.
00:45 Its mass can level mountain ranges.
00:50 It cannot think.
00:54 It cannot reason.
00:58 It cannot change its course.
01:05 And it's going to strike the Earth in six days.
01:14 That meteor is five miles wide and it's definitely going to hit us.
01:20 It's coming apart in a million pieces.
01:26 Your government, in collaboration with the best scientific brains at its disposal,
01:31 developed a project to deal with this emergency.
01:35 Attitude correction complete. Situation nominal.
01:39 Orientation complete. Situation normal.
01:43 Anything go wrong?
01:45 Once the rockets have been launched, they switch over to their own internal decision-making systems.
01:51 And if these systems perform perfectly, well then, there's no problem.
01:55 But if there's a malfunction, what are the odds?
01:58 Your guess is as good as mine.
02:05 We can expect the first splinters in 24 hours.
02:08 [rocket launching]
02:26 We've picked up another splinter. A big one.
02:29 Direction?
02:30 The United States. The eastern seaboard.
02:35 It's five miles wide. It's traveling at a speed of 30,000 miles per hour.
02:41 And there is no place on Earth to hide.
02:45 [rocket launching]
03:05 [screaming]
03:07 [rocket launching]
03:11 [explosion]