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The Final Countdown (1980) [PG]

Release Date:
January 31, 1980

Original Title:
The Final Countdown

Alternate Titles:
Countdown Dimensione Zero
El final de la cuenta atrás
Jeszcze raz Pearl Harbor
Nimitz de Volta ao Inferno
U.S.S. Nimitz: Lost in the Pacific
Последний отсчет
Последният старт
碧血长天

Genres:
Action | Science Fiction | War

Production Companies:
Bryna Productions
United Artists

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
AU: PG  DE: 12  FR: TP  GB: PG  GR: PG  HU: 12  IE: PG  NO: 12  US: PG 

Runtime: 103

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

Overview from TheMovieDB

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.

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Production

Assistant Art Director:
Dale Koeppe

Associate Producer:
Lloyd Kaufman

Camera Operator:
Robert C. Thomas

Construction Coordinator:
William Maldonado

Costume Design:
Ray Summers

Director:
Don Taylor

Director of Photography:
Victor J. Kemper

Editor:
Robert K. Lambert

Executive In Charge Of Production:
John W. Hyde

Executive Producer:
Richard R. St. Johns

First Assistant Director:
Pat Kehoe

Gaffer:
Earl Gilbert

Hairstylist:
Romaine Greene

Makeup Artist:
Irving Buchman

Makeup Department Head:
Bob Mills

Makeup Supervisor:
Bob Mills

Music Editor:
Milton Lustig

Original Music Composer:
John Scott

Producer:
Peter Douglas

Production Design:
Fernando Carrere

Property Master:
Kent H. Johnson

Screenplay:
David Ambrose
Thomas Hunter
Gerry Davis
Peter Powell

Script Supervisor:
Lynn A. Aber

Second Assistant Director:
Ed Milkovich
Douglas E. Wise

Second Unit Director:
J. David Jones
Robert K. Lambert

Second Unit Director of Photography:
David L. Butler
Stan Lazan

Set Decoration:
Dennis Peebles

Sound Effects Editor:
Warren Hamilton Jr.
Mark Mangini
Richard L. Anderson

Sound Mixer:
Bruce Bisenz

Sound Recordist:
Robert Nichols II

Special Effects:
Pat Elmendorf
Joe Day
Garry Elmendorf

Still Photographer:
Jim Coe

Story:
Peter Powell
David Ambrose
Thomas Hunter

Stunt Coordinator:
Bill Couch

Stunts:
Orwin C. Harvey
Colby Smith
J. David Jones

Unit Production Manager:
Lloyd Kaufman

Unit Publicist:
Jack Casey

Visual Effects:
Maurice Binder

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