Yelland instead orders Owens to fly the civilians and sufficient supplies via helicopter to an isolated Hawaiian island, assuming they will eventually be rescued. In the aftermath, Scott and Owens develop an attraction for each other.Ĭhapman is outraged that Yelland knows of the impending Japanese attack but has not told anyone else, and demands to be taken to Pearl Harbor to warn the naval authorities. Lasky tells Commander Owens to recite and describe the secret plans for the Japanese attack the dumbfounded Japanese pilot is overcome and shot by the Marines. He threatens to kill them unless he is given access to a radio to warn the Japanese fleet about the Nimitz. The American civilians and the Zero pilot are kept isolated, but while being questioned, the Japanese pilot obtains a rifle, kills two Marine guards, and takes Scott, Owens, and Lasky hostage. Yelland has to decide whether to destroy the Japanese fleet and alter the course of history or to stand by and allow history to proceed as they know it. When a Grumman E-2 Hawkeye scouting craft discovers the Japanese fleet task force further north in unpatrolled waters, poised to launch its attack on Pearl Harbor, the Nimitz crew realize that they have been transported back in time to the day before the attack. Roosevelt's running mate (and his potential successor) during his final re-election bid, had Chapman not disappeared shortly before the Pearl Harbor attack. Commander Owens (James Farentino), an amateur historian, recognizes Chapman as a politician who could have been Franklin D. Senator Samuel Chapman (Charles Durning), his aide Laurel Scott (Katharine Ross), her dog Charlie and one of the two downed Zero pilots (Soon-Tek Oh).
The Nimitz rescues survivors from the yacht: prominent U.S. The F-14s are ordered to drive off the Zeros without firing, but when the Zeros inadvertently head towards the Nimitz, Yelland gives clearance to shoot them down. The patrol witnesses a civilian wooden yacht being strafed and destroyed by two Imperial Japanese Navy Mitsubishi A6M "Zero" fighters, killing three crew members. When a surface contact is spotted on radar, Yelland launches two ready alert Grumman F-14 Tomcat fighter jets from VF-84 to intercept. Pacific fleet battleships, of which several were destroyed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The aircraft returns after photographing Pearl Harbor, but the images show an intact row of U.S. He orders general quarters and launches a RF-8 Crusader reconnaissance aircraft. Pacific Fleet Command at Pearl Harbor, Captain Yelland (Kirk Douglas), commander of the aircraft carrier, fears that there may have been a nuclear strike on Hawaii or the continental United States. Initially unsure of what has happened to them and having lost radio contact with U.S. While the ship passes through it, radar and other equipment become unresponsive and everyone aboard falls into agony. Once at sea, the Nimitz encounters a mysterious electrically-charged storm-like vortex. Defense Department - on the orders of his reclusive employer, Mr Tideman, whose secretive major defense contractor company designed and built the nuclear-powered warship. The ship takes on a civilian observer, Warren Lasky (Martin Sheen) - a systems analyst for Tideman Industries working as an efficiency expert for the U.S. In 1980, the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz is departing Naval Station Pearl Harbor for naval exercises in the mid-Pacific Ocean. 3.1 Aircraft appearing in the production.The Final Countdown was a moderate success at the box office. It was set and filmed on board USS Nimitz (CVN-68), filming operations of the modern nuclear warship, which had been launched in the early 1970s. The film was produced with the cooperation of the United States Navy's naval aviation branch and the United States Department of Defense.
Kaufman also served as an associate producer and had a minor acting role. Produced by Peter Douglas and Lloyd Kaufman (founder of Troma Entertainment) and directed by Don Taylor, the film contains an ensemble cast starring Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, James Farentino, Katharine Ross and Charles Durning. The Final Countdown is a 1980 American science fiction war film about a modern nuclear-powered aircraft carrier that travels through time to the day before the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor.
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