A technical malfunction sends American planes to Moscow to deliver a nuclear attack. Can all-out war be averted?A technical malfunction sends American planes to Moscow to deliver a nuclear attack. Can all-out war be averted?A technical malfunction sends American planes to Moscow to deliver a nuclear attack. Can all-out war be averted?
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 3 nominations total
Dom DeLuise
- Sgt. Collins
- (as Dom DeLouise)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe "computer-generated" image on the control-room screen (including the map of the world, the planes and the explosions) was entirely drawn and animated by hand.
- GoofsThe interior shots of the bombers, Convair B-58 Hustlers (see Trivia), actually were shot inside of a commercial airline simulator then under repair at a a New York airport. The three crew members sit within feet of each other, in an open cockpit layout. In an actual B-58, the world's first fly-by-wire and supersonic bomber (and capable of twice the speed of sound), the three-man crew of pilot, bombardier/navigator, and defense systems specialist were seated in-line and had no physical contact with one another. To make survivable ejection possible on such a high-speed aircraft, each compartment was specifically designed as wholly contained clam-shell "pod" that would be ejected intact if the need arose. As a result, the crew had to rely on an internal telecommunications system to talk, or a string-and-pulley system that ran along the cabin wall to exchange notes if those systems failed. It's speculated that this pod design was incorporated as a presidential safeguard on modern 747 versions of Air Force One, as implied in the film Air Force One (1997).
- Quotes
[last lines]
Brigadier General Warren A. Black: The Matador, the Matador... me... me
- Crazy credits[FINAL CREDIT]: The producers of this film wish to stress that it is the stated position of the Department of Defense and the United States Air Force that a rigidly enforced system of safeguards and controls insure that occurrences such as those depicted in this story cannot happen
- ConnectionsFeatured in Henry Fonda: The Man and His Movies (1982)
Featured review
Frightening
I'm a child of the 1970s, but this movie still scared me. You didn't have to grow up during the 50s or 60s to appreciate this. Anways in the 1980s, when Reagan was in office, nuclear war seemed a very real prospect. This movie is deadly serious, NO humor at all, and lit very sparsely. The battles between Russian and US planes seen as blips on a huge screen, is just as scary as if we had seen it realistically. Frightening, harrowing...hard to believe this film still has that effect now. Well worth watching but it's very very grim. Also, Fonda is superb as the President.
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- preppy-3
- Nov 22, 1999
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- Angriffsziel Moskau
- Filming locations
- Westbury, Long Island, New York, USA(Roosevelt Field: President's bunker)
- Production company
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $3,924,000
- Runtime1 hour 52 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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