Meteor

A fragment of the asteroid Orpheus, several kilometres wide, is on a collision course with Earth after a run-in with a comet. An impact would mean a catastrophe on a scale that could end human life. To deflect it, NASA plans to use an orbiting nuclear platform, but its firepower turns out to be insufficient. The only remaining option is cooperation with the Soviet Union, which has a similar weapons satellite in orbit, and Cold War rivals must decide whether they can work together. Sean Connery plays Paul Bradley, the American scientist pressing for the joint effort, with Natalie Wood as the Soviet translator Tatiana Donskaya, Karl Malden as Harry Sherwood, Brian Keith as Dr. Dubov, Martin Landau as General Adlon and Trevor Howard as Michael Hughes.

Ronald Neame directed, working from a screenplay by Stanley Mann and Edmund H. North, with Run Run Shaw among the producers. It followed Neame's The Odessa File and arrived between that film and Foreign Body, his sixth listed feature as director. Made for 16 million US dollars, it returned 13 million worldwide. On IMDb, the film holds a 3.7 out of 10 from 22 critics' reviews, while on TMDB it has a 5.2 out of 10 from 181 votes.