The Andromeda Strain

Piedmont, New Mexico — wind whips dust across empty porches and cracked window sills. A military satellite returns bearing a silent plague; only a derelict town and two survivors remain. Scientists in white suits rush into a sterile fortress, dissecting the impossible organism, unaware it has already shifted shape, slithering past their safeguards toward the lab’s humming nuclear core. A clinical thriller where certainty curdles into containment failure.

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Robert Wise directed The Andromeda Strain in 1971. See Robert Wise's full filmography, where to start with Robert Wise, or where to go after you've seen everything by Robert Wise.

The Andromeda Strain was released in 1971 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 131 minutes.