An invasion from outer space from an extraterrestrial life form. In this film the twist is that they are micro organisms, captured by a United States space probe. When the probe lands in a small town in Arizona it ends up killing most of the residents of the town. The Department of Defense has a secret laboratory built for studying bio weapons where the organism is transported. The drama in this film is created by a team of scientists who must study this organism and identify how to control it.
This is the director Robert Wise's second shot at the science fiction genre. Wise was responsible for the original version of The Day The Earth Stood Still, and he brought all of skill as a filmmaker to what is essentially a film about scientists looking at stuff under a microscope.
Wise carefully cast the film with character actors instead of movie stars to give the film some verisimilitude. The film's secret germ laboratory set was designed by production designer Boris Leven who early in his career had designed the impressionistic sets for that 1950's science fiction classic, Invaders From Mars.
The Andromeda Strain is an excellent film from one of Hollywood's old pro's who in his 50's could still make interesting and entertaining films in many genres,
The film was written by Nelson Gidding, the running time is 130 minutes.
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