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Originally posted by PASig:

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Originally posted by Hound Dog:


By Dawns Early Light was a good 80s version. It still remains great drama.

By Dawn's Early Light is an HBO original movie, aired in 1990 and set in 1991.

Eh. I was off by a year.

I recall many people complained about having a female copilot on main B-52 (Rebecca Demornay with Powers Booth), but just a few years later, the USAF started posting female pilots in bombers.

I still enjoy that movie. The acting and drama were superb.

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Originally posted by mojojojo:

Another good cold war movie that I've enjoyed is The Bedford Incident

"If he fires one, I'll FIRE ONE."

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by mojojojo:

Another good cold war movie that I've enjoyed is The Bedford Incident

"If he fires one, I'll FIRE ONE."

And, Ensign Ralston did.

I had read that Henry Fonda had said that if he knew that Dr. Strangelove was coming out, he would not have made Failsafe.

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Originally posted by jhe888:
I have never seen the movie, but did read the novel....

IMO one of the few instances in which the movie was better than the book, much better.

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IMO one of the few instances in which the movie was better than the book, much better.

Absolutely. The movie stands up very well even after all these years. It builds tension and suspense from start to finish. You can feel the tension as the pilots head towards Moscow. Some members in the Air Force command structure mentally collapse under the pressure as we head towards a nuclear war. The wife of the pilot headed towards Moscow pleads hysterically with her husband to break off the attack. The American pilot who drops the nuke on New York commits suicide. And the remarkable part of the movie is that it's all believable. There is no overacting or phony hysteria. None of it comes across as being "over the top." I put it definitely among the top 10 movies ever made.

Eric Portman was superb as the NATO Commodore advisor, Wolfgang Schrepke Deutsche Merine in the Bedford Incident.

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Originally posted by mojojojo:
Another good cold war movie that I've enjoyed is The Bedford Incident with Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier. I could imagine something like this incident being more likely to occur than something like Fail Safe.

It nearly did, in the runup to the Cuba Crisis, though it wasn't known at the time the movie was filmed.

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Soviet submarine B-59 (Russian: Б-59) was a Project 641 or Foxtrot-class diesel-electric submarine of the Soviet Navy. It played a key role near Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis, when senior officers—out of contact with Moscow and the rest of the world, believing they were under attack and possibly at war—considered firing a T-5 nuclear torpedo at US ships.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_B-59

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Originally posted by BansheeOne:

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Originally posted by mojojojo:
Another good cold war movie that I've enjoyed is The Bedford Incident with Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier. I could imagine something like this incident being more likely to occur than something like Fail Safe.

It nearly did, in the runup to the Cuba Crisis, though it wasn't known at the time the movie was filmed.

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Soviet submarine B-59 (Russian: Б-59) was a Project 641 or Foxtrot-class diesel-electric submarine of the Soviet Navy. It played a key role near Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis, when senior officers—out of contact with Moscow and the rest of the world, believing they were under attack and possibly at war—considered firing a T-5 nuclear torpedo at US ships.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_B-59

It was Vasily Alexandrovich Arkhipov, on that Soviet sub who refused to order a nuclear torpedo fired at a US warship.

Most likely prevented an all out nuclear war with the Soviet Union.

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Originally posted by GWbiker:

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by mojojojo:

Another good cold war movie that I've enjoyed is The Bedford Incident

"If he fires one, I'll FIRE ONE."

And, Ensign Ralston did.

Wasn't that James MacArthur, Dan'l from Hawaii 5-0

Yep, James MacArthur on Fire Control...