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Roswell (also known as Roswell: The U.F.O. Cover-Up) is a 1994 television film produced by Paul Davids based on a supposedly true story about the Roswell UFO incident, the alleged U.S. military capture of a flying saucer and its alien crew following a crash near the town of Roswell, New Mexico, in July 1947. Along with the Roswell crash, the film references prominent UFOlogy events such as Area 51, alien autopsies, the death of James Forrestal and Majestic-12.
The script was based on the book UFO Crash at Roswell, by Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt.
Plot
Beginning at a 30-year reunion for members of the 509th Operations Group, 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 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.
Reception
The New York Times reviewed the film as a tense drama, maintaining "an engrossing course." Criticizing the conspiracy aspect, it's noted that "What prevents this professionally fashioned hokum from being a high flier is the annoying question of how a cover-up that involved hundreds or thousands of people could have been maintained for 30 years or even 30 seconds in this expose-prone society."
Variety labeled it "a gripping fictional account." The review concludes, "Wherever the truths of the Roswell incident may lie, director Kagan paces his story convincingly and, in the suspicions it raises about American military mendacity, unflinchingly: superior made-for-TV fare, in other words. The extraterrestrial bodies, by the way, are terrific." (
The Los Angeles Times considered the film "no mere sci-fi hardware yarn," adding "Roswell is not so much a space odyssey but the story of a man's lost soul, that of an Air Force intelligence officer doggedly searching for the truth."
Cast
Kyle MacLachlan as Jesse A. Marcel
Martin Sheen as Townsend
Dwight Yoakam as Mac Brazel
Xander Berkeley as Sherman Carson
Bob Gunton as Frank Joyce
Kim Greist as Vy Marcel
Peter MacNicol as Lewis Rickett
John M. Jackson as Colonel Blanchard
Nick Searcy as Mortician
J.D. Daniels as Young Jesse Marcel, Jr.
Charles Hallahan as Older Pilot MacIntire
Ray McKinnon as Deputy Joe Pritchard
Eugene Roche as James Forrestal
Charles Martin Smith as Sheriff Wilcox
Doug Wert as Older Jesse Marcel, Jr.
Cynthia Allison as TV commentator
Hoke Howell as Bar veteran
Bruce Ed Morrow as General
Will Huston as Alien clown (as William Edwards)
Layne Beamer as Soldier
Max Trumpower as Gate Guard
Mik Scriba as Air Mechanic
Matt Landers as Lt. Walter Haut
George Gray III as Deputy
Stephen C. Foster as Gate MP
Dave Adams as Provost Marshal
Bill Cook as Jeep Driver
J.W. 'Corkey' Fornof as Pilot
Charles Beck as Pilot
Randy Gagne as Pilot
Charles M. Kistler as Interrogator #1
Daiton Rutkowski as Interrogator #2
F. William Parker as Older Stanton
Jonathan Mincks as Younger Stanton
Peter Radon as Melvin Brown
Gary Bullock as Eavesdropper
Jim Hayne as Harris
Mark Phelan as Gate Guard
Steve Lanza as Outside Doctor
Arthur Kopit as Inside Doctor
Michael Strasser as Hospital MP
Don Fischer as Outdoor MP
Denice Marcel as Waitress
Brandey Martinez as Waitress #2
Lisa Waltz as Janet Foss
John Mahon as Red Hat Vet
Stanley Grover as Straw Hat Vet
Warren Munson as Yellow Hat Vet
Hansford Rowe as Chaplain
Richard Fancy as Doctor
Paul Davids as Photographer
Philip Baker Hall as Roswell General
Lawrence Dobkin as General (as Larry Dobkin)
Edward Penn as Civilian Advisor
Arthur Hiller as Scientist #1
Parley Baer as Civilian Advisor
Bruce Gray as Admiral
References/Links
External links
Roswell at IMDb
Roswell at AllMovie
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