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About 2 years after the filming of "Escape", the "Ape-o-Naut" suits were used in the infamous "cantina" scene from Star Wars. After that, this suit was stripped of the Apollo Mission paint-scheme and returned to its original Mercury Mission silver mylar finish. You can see several of the silver suits in afew films and televison shows from the 1960's. Jerry Lewis and Dennis Weaver wore them in the 1966 farce "WAY...WAY OUT!" and they again ape-peared in James Coburn's 1967 super-spy feature "In Like Flint". Three mylar suits were also used in the first episode of the final season of "Get Smart" titled "Pheasant Under Glass", 9/26/1969 . It is not known if any of these three suits were converted to the ANSA suits for "ESCAPE", but it is likely that they could have been. Rumor has it that Roddy and Kim's suits were sold together at auction in the 1980's to an East coast collector. When we received Sal Mineo's suit for resoration,
it was missing the gloves, helmet mount, and boots.
As you can see, Sal's suit has now been fully
restored for this display.
There are DETAIL fotos on the following pages: Page 2 / Page 3 / Page 4/ Page 5 / Page 6 / Page 7 / Page 8 / Page 9 / Page 10
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