Countdown is a 1968 film directed by Robert Altman and
based on the novel The Pilgrim Project by Hank Searls.
It stars James Caan and Robert Duvall as astronauts vying to be the first American to walk on the Moon as part of a crash program to beat the Soviet Union.
It seems not to have garnered too many favourable reviews back in the day but from what little I've seen and read it sounds fairly interesting. I'll be hunting this down for future viewing pleasure.
Steve
