![]() Audio Commentary with Director of Photography Victor J. A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. This is an all-new THX-Certified High-Definition Transfer from the original camera negative with remixed 6.1 DTS-ES and 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround EX Soundtracks for the ultimate in explosive home theater excitement. Nimitz with the full participation of the U.S. Do they allow the Japanese to complete their murderous invasion or launch a massive counter-strike that will forever change the course of history? Katharine Ross and Ron O'Neal co-star in this spellbinding sci-fi action hit filmed on location aboard the U.S.S. A few years later, 'The Philadelphia Experiment', somewhat based on the legend of the same name, features a 1940s warship being transported 40 years into the future. As the enemy fleet speeds towards Hawaii, the warship's Captain (Kirk Douglas), a Defense Department expert (Martin Sheen), a maverick Air Wing Commander (James Farentino) and a desperate Senator in the Roosevelt administration (Charles Durning) face a terrible question. The 1980 film 'The Final Countdown', starring Kirk Douglas, is about a 'modern day' Aircraft carrier transported 40 years back in time to WW2. Suddenly, a freak electrical storm engulfs the ship and triggers the impossible: The Nimitz is hurtled back in time to December 6, 1941, mere hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Nimitz, America's mightiest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier on maneuvers in the Pacific Ocean. Plus, get access to our videos and livestream content, all free of charge.Ĭlick this link or the photo below to join.The time is now. ![]() Join us in our private Facebook group where you can enjoy the company of other likeminded military aviation fans, including a growing number of former & current military pilots, Radar Intercept Officers (RIO’s) and Weapon Systems Officers (WSOs). The movie stars Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross, and Charles Durning. In it, the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz encounters a strange storm at sea in actuality, it is a wormhole that sends her back in time to December 6, 1941, the day before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. When the ship pulls into Pearl Harbor past the USS Arizona Memorial, it is actually the USS Kitty Hawk not the Nimitz. The Final Countdown is a 1980 film directed by Don Taylor. This sees the crew of the USS Nimitz somehow travel back in time to 1941, a day before the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor. PS: This post was inspired by Dave “Bio” Baranek’s article about the movie on The Aviation Geek Club’s website. More quotes from The Final Countdown Trivia Trivia: The USS Nimitz was based in the Atlantic during filming of this movie. One of the lesser sung gems of the genre is 1980s The Final Countdown. The song has later appeared in several movies, including Shiner (2000) The Kid & I (2005) and Pitch Perfect (2012), but those came many years after the song. He was cast alongside fellow blaxsploitation stars. Better still, as scholars and film fans rediscovered his performance in Superfly, ONeal gathered some movie work again. In addition, William “Bull” McCluskey also passed away in March 2016.Įnjoy this Behind The Scenes look at how the movie was made, and the involvement of the mighty F-14 Tomcat! The Final Countdown is not a special-effects laden time-travel piece like Back to the Future (1985) or any such ilk and, indeed, the pivotal 'freak. Sadly “Fox” Farrell passed away in March 2014, but he was the lead pilot in the movie and based on his CO’s commments in the behind the scenes clip below, was one of (or the best?) F-14 pilots in the USN. I ran across a video on YouTube which was a “behind the scenes” look at the movie, hosted by 6 guys from VF-84 (the Jolly Rogers) – all former F-14 Pilots and/or RIOs who flew in the movie: Naturally the F-14s win, but the scene is iconic in the world of military aviation because of the massive dissimilarities between the planes. There’s some fabulous flying scenes in the movie, especially where two Tomcats dogfight two Japanese Zeros (actually T-6 Texans, rebuilt as replicas of the original Zeros). Once the crew figure out what has happened to them, they then realise they have the opportunity to actually attack and destroy the Japanese fleet en route to Pearl Harbor, and potentially stop the attack on Pearl Harbor and change the history of how the US got involved in WW2. ![]() The movie is based around the rather fanciful premise of the USS Nimitz accidentally travelling back in time to the day before the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor! For naval aviation fans – particularly lovers of the F-14 Tomcat – one of the first mainstream movies that brought Grumman’s beautiful and deadly interceptor to fame was the movie “The Final Countdown”, released in Aug 1980.
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