Nimitz, return towards the hell

Nimitz, return towards the hell ( Final The Countdown ) is an American film carried out by Don Taylor, left the 1980.

Synopsis

In December 1981, the nuclear Aircraft carrier US '' Nimitz '', under the orders of the pasha Matthew Yelland, takes the sea for operations of routine to broad of Hawaii. Although the weather announces one great good shape , strange a gray Brume rises. Suddenly, enormous a Storm bottom on the ship, of impressive electromagnetic discharges of an unknown force attack it, followed strange phenomena. The Nimitz resists however, but, the calm income, another surprise awaits the captain: the radio operator of the edge evokes events relating to the war in Europe and the voice of Roosevelt is made hear. Air photographs of the base of Pearl Harbor show the base as it was presented before the attack of Japanese aviation in December 1941. The officers go obviously: returned with the December 6th 1941, the Nimitz is the day before the attacks on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. America is unaware of still that Japan decided to declare the war to him. The senator Chapman, who has just been collected on board, does not know that it will die in 24 hours… The Matthew captain is then in prey with a real dilemma: does it have to intervene with the formidable firepower of its ship to save thousands of lives and thus to change radically the course of the Histoire?

Data sheet

  • French Title: Nimitz, return towards the hell
  • original Title: Final The Countdown
  • English Title: U.S.S. Nimitz: Lost in the Pacific
  • Realization: Gift Taylor
  • Scenario: Thomas Hunter, Peter Powell and David Ambrose
  • Production: Douglas Peter and Lloyd Kaufman
  • Production company: United Artists
  • Music: John Scott (additional music Alan Howarth)
  • Photography: Victor J. Kemper
  • Assembly: Robert K. Lambert
  • Country of origin: the United States
  • Format: Colors - 1,85:1 - Dolby - 35 mm
  • Kind: Science fiction, war
  • Lasted: 103 minutes
  • Coming out date: 1980

Distribution

Anecdotes

  • the film is an adaptation of the Romance of Martin Caidin published in 1980.
  • the actor Lloyd Kaufman, who plays a radio operator operator, said that Nimitz, return towards the hell was the film which had definitively passed the desire to him for working with large studios of production.
  • the US Nimitz (CVN-68) is really an American aircraft carrier bearing the name of the admiral Chester Nimitz.
  • a series of japanimation left in 2004 takes again a little the scenaristic screen of film but with Japanese protagonists; this series of the name of " Zipang" described the tour of a Japanese team taken in a storm during nippo-American operations, and which is found in full second world war.
  • Error in film: A member of the crew announces in film to have intercepted radio transmissions of the Japanese navy. That is impossible because, to keep the advantage of the attack surprised on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese navy had imposed strict radio silence.

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