The Final Countdown
Trapped outside the boundaries of time and space... 102 aircraft... 6,000 men... all missing.
6.7(681) 1980-01-31 103 minWarActionScience Fiction
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.
ScreenplayDavid Ambrose
ScreenplayGerry Davis
ScreenplayThomas Hunter
Original Music ComposerJohn Scott
ProducerPeter Douglas
ScreenplayPeter Powell
DirectorDon Taylor
Cast & characters
Kirk Douglas
as Capt. Matthew Yelland
Martin Sheen
as Warren Lasky
Katharine Ross
as Laurel Scott
James Farentino
as Wing Commander Richard T. Owens
Ron O'Neal
as Commander Dan Thurman
Charles Durning
as Senator Samuel Chapman
Victor Mohica
as Black Cloud
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James Coleman
as Lt. Perry
Soon-Tek Oh
as Simura
Alvin Ing
as Lt. Kajima
Lloyd Kaufman
as LCdr. Kaufman
Dan Fitzgerald
as Navy Doctor
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Peter Douglas
as Quartermaster
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Joe Lowry
as Cdr. Damon
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Ted Richert
as Tideman's Assistant
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Mark Thomas
as Marine Cpl. Kullman
Harold Bergman
as Bellman
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George Warren
as Tideman's Bodyguard
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Richard Liberty
as LCdr. Moss
Gary Morgan
as Helicopter Crewman
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Phil Philbin
as Admiral
Robert Goodman
as Enlisted Man
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Neil Ronco
as Harvey
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Bill Couch
as Durrell (as William Couch)
