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Marooned

film by Sturges [1969]

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The film Marooned (1969), directed by John Sturges, is a drama about three astronauts stranded in space due to a spacecraft engine malfunction. The film focuses on their predicament and the efforts to rescue them. Sturges was known for his taut war movies and westerns, with other notable films including The Magnificent Seven and The Great Escape. Marooned was a less popular film compared to some of his other works.1

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