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6.6/10 • 616

1980-01-311h 43m

WarActionScience Fiction

Trapped outside the boundaries of time and space... 102 aircraft... 6,000 men... all missing.

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.

Directors
Don Taylor
Editors
Robert K. Lambert

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  1. Kirk Douglas

    Kirk Douglas

    Capt. Matthew Yelland

  2. Martin Sheen

    Martin Sheen

    Warren Lasky

  3. Katharine Ross

    Katharine Ross

    Laurel Scott

  4. James Farentino

    James Farentino

    Wing Commander Richard T. Owens

  5. Ron O'Neal

    Ron O'Neal

    Commander Dan Thurman

  6. Charles Durning

    Charles Durning

    Senator Samuel Chapman

  7. Victor Mohica

    Victor Mohica

    Black Cloud

  8. James Coleman

    James Coleman

    Lt. Perry

  9. Soon-Tek Oh

    Soon-Tek Oh

    Simura

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JPV852

May 13, 2021

8/10

Pretty fun Twilight Zone-esque movie that was entertaining throughout. Always like the ideas of alternate history and while this doesn't quite change history in the end (and shouldn't given it was Pearl Harbor, not to mention when this movie was released, survivors were only in their early/mid 60s), still was a good time. On the downside, the actual travel through the portal was cheesy and cheap even for 1979/80. 3.75/5 As a side, interesting that only 7 years later, the sons of Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen will star in Wall Street...

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$12,000,000.00
Revenue
$16,647,800.00
Keywords
airplaneworld war iitime travelpearl harborpacific warnaval warfare1940s1980sjapaneseuss nimitz