Here's the trailer


From Trailers From Hell. You can play with out without Joe Dante's commentary (I prefer with):
http://www.trailersfromhell.com/trailers/258?auto=1

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thx for the link
all I remember of it was the delta wing
engines bursting into life as the film started
I must have been only about seven when
I got my mum to take me to it..

and of course the little yellow flower that
bloomed..

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You were lucky to have seen this on the big screen.

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probably!
just purchased it on itunes


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In the commentary, Dante says that "this is a dramatisation of a non-fiction book by..." but I can't make out the name. You wouldn't happen to know it, would you?

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Yes, the author is Willie Ley. I had to play it a few times and do a Google to find out who it was:
http://www.amazon.com/conquest-space-Willy-Ley/dp/B0007F7TO8

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Thanks.

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