They complete their fly-by with tantalizing signs that someone may still be aboard, but do not realize the gravity-free zone is artificial and limited slipping outside it, they are almost drawn into the black hole.Īs the crew repairs the Palomino, they discover that the Cygnus is not only functional but inhabited by a crew of faceless robots and their human commander, Dr. As they come within close range of it, the buffeting they experience due to the black hole's gravity suddenly ceases. The Palomino attempts a dangerous fly-by of the ship, which is dark and apparently derelict. Alex Durant (Perkins), the expedition's civilian leader and the robot V.I.N.CENT (" Vital Information Necessary CENTralized"). Setting off to solve the mystery of the Cygnus are: the Palomino's Captain, Dan Holland (Forster) his First Officer, Lieutenant Charlie Pizer (Bottoms) journalist Harry Booth (Borgnine) ESP-sensitive scientist Dr. Alan Dean Foster novelized the screenplay.Īn Earth exploratory ship, the USS Palomino, discovers an impressively massive black hole with a missing Earth vessel, the USS Cygnus parked just outside its event horizon, somehow defying its gravity. The music for the movie was composed by John Barry. The voices of the main robot characters in the film are provided by Roddy McDowall and Slim Pickens (both uncredited). It stars Maximilian Schell, Robert Forster, Joseph Bottoms, Yvette Mimieux, Anthony Perkins, and Ernest Borgnine. The Black Hole is a 1979 science fiction movie directed by Gary Nelson.
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