2001: A Space Odyssey: Quick Facts

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Stanley Kubrick stands in the foreground directing actors in white coats and silver boots on the set of 2001: A Space Odyssey, with a futuristic orange set behind them.

Gary Lockwood as Frank Poole and Keir Dullea as Dave Bowman sit facing each other in a spacecraft with HAL 9000 visible through a round window in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

The Star Child, a glowing fetus, floats in space gazing toward the planet Jupiter in a scene from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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