Director: Don Taylor
Writers: David Ambrose,
Gerry Davis, Thomas Hunter, Peter Powell
Starring: Martin Sheen, Kirk
Douglas, James Farentino, Katherine Ross, Ron O’Neal, Charles Durning, Soon-Tek
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On Tuesday, January 24, 2012
actor James Farentino passed away due to heart failure in a Los Angeles hospital.
He was 73. Farentino appeared in dozens of movies and television shows
throughout his career. “The Final Countdown” was probably he best known film role.
He received an Emmy nomination for his role as Peter in the television
mini-series “Jesus of Nazareth” and played George Clooney’s estranged father on
the hospital drama “ER”.
He played the third lead
behind Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen and the romantic lead to Katherine Ross in
this military-based science fiction cult classic that imagines what might
happen if a modern day U.S. Naval aircraft carrier were inexplicably placed
between Pearl Harbor and the advancing Japanese fleet on December 7, 1941 just
hours before the attack that drew the U.S. Forces into World War II. The
cooperation of the U.S. Navy in making this movie greatly helped the
authenticity factor for the military maneuvers.
The drama mostly deals with
the slow process the crew must go through just to figure out that somehow they
have traveled through time. Once they come to terms with that they must
determine what to do about it. They have the opportunity to alter history and
give the United States an incredible military advantage in the war with their
modern war vessel, but at what price to the future? As the ship’s captain, Douglas’s
military take on the situation is implacable. Sheen’s civilian advisor is a
little more emotionally driven. Oddly, very little occurs other than the
realization of what’s happened, but that is as it must be when dealing with
such a grand historical event and the paradox of time displacement.
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