The Fifth Missile
1986 multi-national TV series or program
The Fifth Missile | |
---|---|
Genre | Drama Thriller |
Based on | The Gold Crew by Frank M. Robinson and Thomas N. Scortia |
Written by | Eric Bercovici |
Directed by | Larry Peerce |
Starring | Robert Conrad Sam Waterston David Soul Richard Roundtree Jonathan Banks Yvette Mimieux |
Music by | Pino Donaggio |
Country of origin | Italy United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Executive producer | Eric Bercovici |
Producer | Arthur Fellows |
Production locations | Malta Cinecittà Studios, Arsenale Marina Militare di Taranto, Cinecittà, Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Cinematography | Cristiano Pogany |
Editors | Maureen O'Connell Jack Tucker |
Running time | 150 minutes |
Production companies | Bercovici/St.Johns Productions Cinecittà MGM/UA Television |
Original release | |
Network | NBC |
Release | February 23, 1986 (1986-02-23) |
The Fifth Missile is a 1986 television movie starring Robert Conrad, Sam Waterston and David Soul about an American ballistic missile submarine, based on the novel The Gold Crew by Frank M. Robinson and Thomas N. Scortia. With the exception of Cmdr. Van Meer, the ship's crew goes slowly insane due to exposure to paint chemicals onboard and believes a missile test exercise is, in fact, nuclear war. It explores the inability of U.S. command structures to control and prevent rogue submarine officers from launching ballistic missiles.
Cast
- Robert Conrad – Cmdr. Mark Van Meer
- Sam Waterston – Capt. Allard Renslow
- Richard Roundtree – Cmdr. Frederick Bryce
- Jonathan Banks – Ray Olson
- Art LaFleur – "Animal" Meslinsky
- Dennis Holahan – Warden
- Sergio Fantoni – Pietro
- Yvette Mimieux – Cheryl Leary
- David Soul – Capt. Kevin Harris
- Ed Bishop – Admiral Stewart Cullinane
- William Berger – Dr. Strickland
External links
- The Fifth Missile at IMDb
- The Fifth Missile at AllMovie
- v
- t
- e
Films directed by Larry Peerce
- One Potato, Two Potato (1964)
- The Big T.N.T. Show (1965)
- The Incident (1967)
- Goodbye, Columbus (1969)
- The Sporting Club (1971)
- A Separate Peace (1972)
- Ash Wednesday (1973)
- The Stranger Who Looks Like Me (1974)
- The Other Side of the Mountain (1975)
- Two-Minute Warning (1976)
- The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2 (1978)
- The Bell Jar (1979)
- Why Would I Lie? (1980)
- Love Child (1982)
- Hard to Hold (1984)
- The Fifth Missile (1986)
- Elvis and Me (1988)
- Wired (1989)
- The Neon Empire (1989)
- The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson (1990)
- Child of Rage (1992)
- A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story (1994)
- Christmas Every Day (1996)
- A Secret Life (1999)
![]() | This article related to an American TV movie is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e