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Doomsday Virus is a american film of genre Drama directed by Eric Laneuville released in USA on 10 november 1996 with Richard Dean Anderson
Doomsday Virus (1996)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 10 november 1996
Length 2h56
Directed by Eric Laneuville
OriginUSA
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Rating60%
Pandora's Clock (also known as Doomsday Virus) is a 1996 television movie based on a novel by John J. Nance about a deadly virus on a Boeing 747-200 from Frankfurt to JFK Airport. The film stars Richard Dean Anderson, Stephen Root, Jane Leeves, Robert Loggia and Daphne Zuniga and the script closely follows the book.
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The story begins in the mountains of Bavaria, Germany, where wildlife documentarian Ernest Helms (Michael Winters) is filming local wildlife. While filming, he discovers a man attempting to break into his rental car. After foiling the man's attempt, Helms prepares to drive away but is thwarted by the man smashing the driver's window. Helms, however, succeeds in escaping the crazed man, but receives a minor cut on his hand. A few days later, in Frankfurt, Germany, Captain James Holland (Richard Dean Anderson), amidst preparations for his forthcoming transatlantic flight as Captain of Quantum Airlines Flight 66, is told by his doctor he does not have cancer. On board Flight 66, a Boeing 747, Helms (already displaying signs of illness) is assisted to his seat by flight attendant Brenda Hopkins (Kate Hodge). Shortly after takeoff, Helms rises from his seat and falls into cardiac arrest, and Brenda gives him CPR. Head flight attendant Barb Rollins (Jennifer Savidge) notifies Holland of the emergency, and the Captain and his check pilot, Daniel Robb (Richard Lawson) set a course for London's Heathrow Airport,. However they are turned away when British Air-Traffic Control informs them that one of the passengers (Helms) could be infected with a deadly strain of influenza.Actors
Richard Dean Anderson
(Capt. James Holland)
Stephen Root
Robert Guillaume
Jane Leeves
(Rachel Sherwood)
Edward Herrmann
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