Movie
The Final Countdown
Overview
During routine manoeuvres near Hawaii in 1980, the aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz is caught in a strange vortex-like storm, throwing the ship back in time to 1941—mere hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Details
- Release date
- 1980-01-31
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Genres
- War, Action, Science Fiction
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Bryna Productions, United Artists
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Kirk Douglas as Capt. Matthew Yelland
- Martin Sheen as Warren Lasky
- Katharine Ross as Laurel Scott
- James Farentino as Wing Commander Richard T. Owens
- Ron O'Neal as Commander Dan Thurman
- Charles Durning as Senator Samuel Chapman
- Victor Mohica as Black Cloud
- James Coleman as Lt. Perry
- Soon-Tek Oh as Simura
- Alvin Ing as Lt. Kajima
- Lloyd Kaufman as LCdr. Kaufman
- Dan Fitzgerald as Navy Doctor
Crew
- Don Taylor - Director
- David Ambrose - Screenplay
- Thomas Hunter - Screenplay
- Gerry Davis - Screenplay
- Peter Powell - Screenplay
- Peter Powell - Story
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