More crucially, had he not disappeared, he would likely have been Franklin Delano Roosevelt's running mate in the 1944 election and on his subsequent death, President of the United States. Commander Owens, an amateur World War II historian, recognizes the Senator as having disappeared around the time of the Pearl Harbor attack. Senator Samuel Chapman ( Charles Durning). of the impending attack), and two survivors have been rescued, one of whom turns out to be U.S. Meanwhile, the ship's aircraft have shot down two Japanese Zero fighters that attacked a yacht (part of the Japanese forces' attempts to ensure that nobody could warn the U.S. Air Wing Commander "CAG" Richard Owens (James Farentino) is not so certain, believing that it's impossible to alter the past and that any attempt would be doomed to failure.
Captain Matt Yelland ( Kirk Douglas), not being an idiot, realizes the potential of a modern nuclear carrier to turn the tide of the forthcoming Pearl Harbor battle. However, they are able to pick up shortwave radio broadcasts that seem to date from World War II.įurther investigation reveals that it's no hoax they have somehow been transported back in time - carrier, planes, and all - to December 6, 1941. Emerging from the storm, the sailors find themselves cut off from modern civilization - their communications don't work, their escorts have vanished, and there are no ships or planes on radar. A few days into the cruise, things change when the carrier is suddenly pursued and overtaken by a mysterious electromagnetic storm. Warren Lasky ( Martin Sheen), a civilian analyst for a major defense contractor tasked with evaluating Navy procedures, is an unwelcome guest on the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, which is departing Pearl Harbor for an otherwise routine cruise.
The Final Countdown is a 1980 Science Fiction film about Time Travel directed by Don Taylor.
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