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    In Robert Altman: Early years

    …meticulously realized, documentary-flavoured space adventure Countdown (1968), with Robert Duvall and James Caan playing astronauts. Altman went to Canada to shoot That Cold Day in the Park (1969), a portentous modern gothic drama starring Sandy Dennis as a disturbed spinster who brings home a young drifter, with dire consequences.

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