the vibe
Richard H. Landau’s Typical Vibe
2 films — measured, dark, intense, clear, uneasy
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Richard H. Landau has 2 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1970s.
The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is lost from radar before roaring back to Earth and crashing in a farmer's field. The rocket is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it; and he is unable to talk but appears to be undergoing a torturous physical and mental metamorphosis.
Dir. Val Guest · With Brian Donlevy, Richard Wordsworth, David King-Wood
The explorer craft USS Palomino is returning to Earth after a fruitless 18-month search for extra-terrestrial life when the crew comes upon a supposedly lost ship, the USS Cygnus, hovering near a black hole. The ship is controlled by Dr. Hans Reinhardt and his monstrous robot companion, but the initial wonderment and awe the Palomino crew feel for the ship and its resistance to the power of the black hole turn to horror as they uncover Reinhardt's plans.
Dir. Gary Nelson · With Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster