Meteor: Sean Connery’s Tweed Leisure Suit and Sheepskin Coat

Sean Connery in Meteor (1979) Vitals Sean Connery as Dr. Paul Bradley, orbital satellite designer-turned-MIT professor Houston, Texas, Washington, D.C., and New York City, December 1978 Film: Meteor Release Date: October 19, 1979 Director: Ronald Neame Costume Designer: Albert Wolsky WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background June 30th is National Meteor Watch Day and, while those of limited imagination may think this exclusively means looking up at the stars, some of us with a more cinematic mindset expand the meaning to include watching stars like Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, and Martin Landau in Ronald Neame’s poorly regarded 1979 sci-fi flick Meteor. Released the same year that Moonraker sent the incumbent James Bond to space, the erstwhile 007 stars in Meteor as ex-NASA scientist Dr. Paul Bradley, hastily summoned back to Houston by his old colleague Harry Sherwood (Karl Malden) after a comet collided with the asteroid Orpheus, sending dozens of deadly asteroid fragments…