COUNTDOWN ticks thru 101 bland minutes of science-fiction-minus monsters, a moon expedition story from 1967 (Brit release date) that opened in the US in ’68. While critics were intrigued and crowds got excited by Planet Of The Apes and were awestruck and/or baffled by 2001: A Space Odyssey, they weren’t enraptured by this realistic, down-to-Earth procedural […]