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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

G | 149 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi

Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer HAL 9000, sets off on a quest.

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Keir Dullea

Dr. Dave Bowman
Gary Lockwood

Dr. Frank Poole
William Sylvester

Dr. Heywood R. Floyd
Daniel Richter

Moon-Watcher
Leonard Rossiter

Dr. Andrei Smyslov
Margaret Tyzack

Elena
Robert Beatty

Dr. Ralph Halvorsen
Sean Sullivan

Dr. Bill Michaels
Douglas Rain

HAL 9000

(voice)
Frank Miller

Mission Controller

(voice)
Bill Weston

Astronaut
Ed Bishop

Aries-1B Lunar Shuttle Captain

(as Edward Bishop)
Glenn Beck

Astronaut
Alan Gifford

Poole's Father
Ann Gillis

Poole's Mother

Director:

Stanley Kubrick

Writers:

Stanley Kubrick (screenplay), Arthur C. Clarke (screenplay)

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Although a narrator was in original drafts of the screenplay, this ended up being the first of Stanley Kubrick's movies (and one of only three, along with The Shining (1980) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999)) to not use spoken narration at some point. Title cards, however, are used to separate sections of the ... ...

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Aries-1B stewardess: Here you are, sir, main level please.

When Dave (Keir Dullea) opens the access hatch to to grant him access to lobotomize Hal, he is supposedly wearing an airtight space suit. As his left hand moves past, the glove separates from the sleeve, reveling his bare wrist.

Crazy Credits

No opening credits for actors, writers, producer, director, etc. are shown, with the story beginning right after the title. Although by the 1990s it had become quite common for major films to not have opening credits, it was still unusual in 1968.