The Final Countdown

Name: The Final Countdown
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross, James Farentino, Ron O'Neal

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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.

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Cast & Crew

Director: Don TaylorWriters: David Ambrose, Gerry Davis, Peter Powell, Thomas HunterProducers: Peter Douglas, Richard R. St. Johns

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

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