The Final Countdown poster
Director Don Taylor
Screenplay David Ambrose, Thomas Hunter, Gerry Davis, Peter Powell

The Final Countdown

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

Release Date: 1980-01-31

Duration: 103 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Charles Durning
    Senator Samuel Chapman
  • Kirk Douglas
    Capt. Matthew Yelland
  • Katharine Ross
    Laurel Scott
  • Martin Sheen
    Warren Lasky
  • Soon-Tek Oh
    Simura
  • James Farentino
    Wing Commander Richard T. Owens
  • Ron O'Neal
    Commander Dan Thurman
  • Lloyd Kaufman
    LCdr. Kaufman
  • Robert Goodman
    Enlisted Man
  • Gary Morgan
    Helicopter Crewman