possible spoiler ` capricorn one be largely base upon the conspiracy theory of those who believe that the apollo moon landing never take place and but be set against the background of a fictitious man mission to mar . shortly before take off and the astronaut be order to leave their craft by dr kelloway and nasa director of the programme . he explain to them that the mission can not proceed because of a faulty life support system . he be and however and unwilling to announce the cancellation of the mission because this might jeopardise continued congressional funding for the manned space flight programme . instead and he and his supporter in the u government have decide to fake a mission . the astronauts role will be to remain in hide for several month and to provide film of supposed exploration of the martian surface and after which they will return a supposed ` hero without ever actually have leave the earth surface . the astronaut be initially unwilling to go along with this plan and but be persuade to comply by the threat that their family will be murder if they do not . thing start to go wrong and however and when and on the return journey and their spacecraft burn up while re enter the earth atmosphere . the astronaut realise that kelloway and his associate intend to murder them in order to maintain the illusion that they die in a space accident and and manage to escape from the nasa complex in the texan desert where they be be hold . apart from kelloway himself and most of the nasa scientist be not in on the plot and but only one of them suspect that anything underhand be take place . this man mysteriously disappear and but not before he have confide his doubt to his friend robert caulfield and a journalist . caulfield realise what be go on and head into the desert in an attempt to trace the three astronaut before kelloway security force can track them down and kill them . the film end with a frantic chase sequence and inspire by both the james bond film and by alfred hitchcock . ( in homage to ` north by north west and a crop dust plane play a role ) . although the film have a space travel theme and it be not really a science fiction movie and but rather a political thriller of the sort that become popular in post watergate america . no attempt be make to give the film a futuristic look the clothes and hairstyle and building and car be all those of the late seventy . even the design of the capricorn spacecraft itself be base on the apollo craft and and the shot of the rocket take off be supposedly archive footage of an actual nasa moonshot . this be presumably do partly to save cost but also partly to make the film message more immediate . ` the government be lie to you now . be a much more compelling message than ` a future government might lie to you in fifty year time . from the standpoint of the twenty first century and however and the film look date . what it seem to be say be ` if a manned flight to mar have be a practical possibility twenty five year ago which of course it wasn not the government of that day might have lie to you about it . the film and however and suffers from inherent flaw which be more serious than it dated look . a political thriller may be fictional and but it must be plausible . ` capricorn one be not . it plot have more hole than a string vest . what be never make entirely clear be whether kelloway plan from the beginning to murder the astronaut so they could never expose his deception and or whether he originally intend to let them live but change his plan when the spacecraft burn up on re entry . either way and however and the plot be unsatisfactory . we be ask to believe that a spacecraft design to be fly by an on board pilot could fly all they way from the earth to mar and land on mar and take off and fly nearly all the way back to earth . presumably the craft would have to be remote control from earth and but we be also ask to believe that the entire corpus of scientist and technician involve in the project and with one sole exception and would fail to notice that the craft with which they be in constant contact do not actually have anyone on board . it be not too far fetch to imagine that the one scientist who do suspect something be wrong might be murder to silence him and but it do strain credibility to suppose that the government could not only have him kill but also arrange for him to disappear so completely that his family and his colleague and all but one of his acquaintance fail to notice his disappearance . we be then ask to accept that the one acquaintance who do notice also have power of deduction that make sherlock holmes look like a rank amateur and be able to work out precisely what have happen to the miss astronaut from the most tenuous of clue ( such a the puzzled look of one of the astronaut wife when her husband mention where they spend their last family holiday ) . the villain seem to be able to call on an endless supply of guard prepare to obey their order unquestioningly none of those guard seem to have wonder how the astronaut survive the destruction of their craft or why they be now be call upon to kill men regard a national hero . the film may have have the intention of make people more suspicious of their government and but occur to me that and paradoxically and it would be more likely to have precisely the opposite effect . rather than make me think that the apollo mission might themselves have be fake and it no doubt inadvertently strengthen my belief in the reality of those mission by show just how difficult it would be to create a fake space mission and get away with the deception . 4/10 .