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The Fifth Missile is a american film of genre Drama directed by Larry Peerce released in USA on 23 february 1986 with Robert Conrad
The Fifth Missile (1986)
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Add to a movie listThe Fifth Missile is a 1986 TV 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. Her crew goes slowly insane due to exposure to chemicals in paint 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 ballistic missile submarine officers from launching missiles.
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À l’exception du commandant Van Meer, l’équipage du navire devient lentement fou à cause de l’exposition aux produits chimiques de la peinture à bord et croit qu’un exercice d’essai de missiles est en fait une guerre nucléaire. Il explore l’incapacité des structures de commandement américaines à contrôler et à empêcher les officiers de sous-marins malhonnêtes de lancer des missiles balistiques.Actors
Robert Conrad
(Cmdr. Mark Van Meer)
Sam Waterston
(Capt. Allard Renslow)
David Soul
(Capt. Kevin Harris)
Richard Roundtree
(Cmdr. Frederick Bryce)
Jonathan Banks
(Ray Olson)
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