Roswell Page #3

Synopsis: Beginning at a 30-year reunion for members of a military nuclear bomb unit, flashbacks are presented that follow the attempts of Major Jesse Marcel to discover the truth about strange debris found on a local rancher's field in July of 1947. Told by his superiors that what he has found is nothing more than a downed weather balloon, Marcel maintains his military duty until the weight of the truth, however out of this world it may be, forces him to piece together what really occurred. Adapted from real-life events portrayed in the book _UFO Crash at Roswell_ by Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Director(s): Jeremy Kagan
Production: Citadel Entertainment
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
PG-13
Year:
1994
91 min
201 Views


Right.

was this gouge

here before?

Nope.

All right.

Let's just suppose

los alamos or white sands...

Launched some ultra-experimental

plane, rocket or whatever.

They'd be out looking for it.

Maybe they are.

Maybe they can't find it.

That's happened.

Sherman, look around you.

what do you see?

l mean, what do you see

geographically?

This place may be remote

by car, but not by plane.

You'd have to be blind

not to spot this from the air.

Nobody's found anything

because nobody's out looking.

And that means

this ain't ours.

Mr. Brazel!

Yeah?

You may have just

earned yourself 3,000 bucks.

Huh!

hey. wake up.

Huh? hi.

what's up?

There's something downstairs

i wanna show you. Okay.

Okay.

All right? not even

to your closest friend.

ls it top secret?

well, not yet.

You mean you think it's gonna be?

yeah, l do.

Dad, you have my word.

Okay.

All right.

l want you to tell me

what you think this is.

Oh, jess.

lt's a mess.

Take a closer look.

where'd you get this?

Someone's ranch.

Hey, is it

from a crash?

How do you know about that?

we heard about it on the radio.

Everybody's talking about it.

Can l keep this piece?

- please, dad?

- sure. why not?

we got lots more of those.

Thanks.

Hey, take a look

at this one.

Looks like an ordinary piece

of tin foil, doesn't it? yeah.

well, if l scratch it--

watch this.

l fold...

And l fold...

And, just for good measure,

i fold again.

Abracadabra.

How'd it do that?

Beats me.

Hey. Hey, look. There's something

written in here. Look.

l think it's egyptian.

l don't think so.

Maybe it's chinese.

No.

No, it's not.

Son,

You may be the first person

in human history...

Ever to see writing

from another world.

Think it could be

russian?

Sure hope not.

Did you try a cutting torch?

didn't do a thing, sir.

Sir? l want this written up

as a press release.

Yes, sir.

Uh, excuse me, sir?

- is this ajoke?

- no, it's not.

''this flying object landed on a

ranch in roswell sometime last week.

''not having phone facilities, the

rancher stored the disk until such time...

''when he was able to contact

the sheriff's office,

''who in turn notified

majorjesse a. Marcel...

Of the 509th palm group

intelligence office.''

How come they never

even mentioned my name?

Maybe one of

the other papers will.

You know we're gettin'

calls from hong kong?

How the hell did they

find out about it so fast?

l think it went out

over radio as well.

The london times.

l'm not in.

Sheriff isn't in.

Cheerio.

Boys, what do you say we shut down

this phone answering business,

Get on out to that ranch, and have a look

at this damn thing for ourselves.

Ah, sh*t!

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Arthur Kopit

Arthur Lee Kopit (born May 10, 1937) is an American playwright. He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist (Indians and Wings) and a three-time Tony Award nominee: Best Play, Indians, 1970; Best Play, Wings, 1979; and Best Book of a Musical, for Nine, 1982. He won the Vernon Rice Award (now known as the Drama Desk Award) in 1962 for his play Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad and was nominated for another Drama Desk Award in 1979 for his play Wings.Nine returned to Broadway in 2003 with Antonio Banderas as Guido and won two Tony Awards, including best revival; in 2009 Rob Marshall directed the film Nine based on Kopit's script, the principal cast consisting of Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Nicole Kidman, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz, Sophia Loren, Kate Hudson, and Fergie (singer).Kopit attended Lawrence High School in Lawrence, Nassau County, New York.Kopit attended Harvard University. His first plays were staged while he was still an undergraduate at Harvard University. Later, Kopit taught at Wesleyan University, Yale University, and the City College of New York. In 2005, Kopit donated his papers to the Fales Library at NYU. more…

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