Special Bulletin
Title | Special Bulletin |
Publication Type | Film |
Year of Publication | 1983 |
Authors | Zwick, Edward |
Running Time | 105 minutes |
Date Released | 1983 |
Distributor | National Broadcasting Company (NBC) |
Country | United States |
Medium | film |
Publication Language | Englilsh |
Abstract | This made-for-television film about nuclear weapons, hostage demands, and the media's coverage of it reflected Cold War tensions in the early 1980s. Its visual style and heightened realism prompted some viewers to believe they were watching a real-life event. Terrorists demand the destruction of all nuclear trigger devices in Charleston Harbor to disarm the United States and convince the Soviets to do the same. A television news crew, which had been covering a workers' strike, broadcasts their demands. |
Cast | Ed Flanders Kathryn Walker Christopher Allport David Clennon Rosalind Cash Roxanne Hart David Rasche Lane Smith Ebbe Roe Smith Roberta Maxwell J. Wesley Huston Michael Madsen` |
Credits | Directed by Edward Zwick Written by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick Music by Ferdinand Jay Smith |
Genre | Drama |
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