The Groundstar Conspiracy

The Groundstar Conspiracy
DVD cover
Directed byLamont Johnson
Written byDouglas Heyes
Based onThe Alien
1968 novel
by L. P. Davies
Produced byFrank Arrigo
Earl A. Glick
Hal Roach Jr.
Trevor Wallace
StarringGeorge Peppard
Michael Sarrazin
Christine Belford
CinematographyMichael Reed
Edited byEdward M. Abroms
Music byPaul Hoffert
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • 21 June 1972 (1972-06-21)
Running time
95 minutes
CountriesCanada
United States
LanguageEnglish

The Groundstar Conspiracy is a 1972 American neo-noir crime film directed by Lamont Johnson. It stars George Peppard and Michael Sarrazin.[1][2]

Douglas Heyes' screenplay (written under his frequent pseudonym, Matthew Howard) was adapted very freely from L. P. Davies' 1968 novel, The Alien. It was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, and produced by Hal Roach Productions[3] in Canada.

  1. ^ "The Groundstar Conspiracy (1972) - Lamont Johnson - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  2. ^ GROUNDSTAR CONSPIRACY, The Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 39, Iss. 456 (1 January 1972): 163.
  3. ^ This is the Canadian successor company, not the original company founded by American director and producer Hal Roach.