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The Final Countdown
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.
1980 · Directed by Don Taylor · 103 min · War · Action · Science Fiction · 8 frames
Tagline
Trapped outside the boundaries of time and space... 102 aircraft... 6,000 men... all missing.
Crew
- Screenplay: David Ambrose, Gerry Davis, Thomas Hunter, Peter Powell
- Cinematography: Victor J. Kemper
- Edited by: Robert K. Lambert
- Music: John Scott
- Production design: Fernando Carrere
- Produced by: Peter Douglas
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
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: Russian, English, Japanese
- Studios: Bryna Productions, United Artists
- Budget: $12,000,000
- Box office: $16,647,800
- Themes: airplane, world war ii, time travel, pearl harbor, pacific war, naval warfare, 1940s, 1980s, japanese, uss nimitz
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