Directed by: Jerry Jameson
A large earthbound comet is speeding towards the Arizona territory, threatening death on a massive scale! The President is advised by eminent scientists to destroy it using a nuclear missile. One astronomer who knows that it cannot be halted, is ridiculed... what can he do to warn the people?
viewer's comments:
Guilty pleasures
As a kid, I saw two movies in the late 70's about celestial bodies heading towards earth, A Fire In the Sky and Meteor. This movie was quite different from Meteor in premise alone. This was not about a collective effort to avert a disaster; it was about how to collectively get the hell out of town. Richard Crenna played Jason Voight, an astronomer who somehow knew that this desert metropolis was doomed the split second after the words were uttered from the Presidents mouth, as he explained to a group of scientist that the comet was probably heading for earth. Although this movie to me was extremely cheesy, over acted and sometime under acted, and you got to see down town Phoenix high-rises crumble one by one, I liked it. I would have to say that it is one of my GUILTY PLEASURES…
viewer's comments:
Transcendental trash
This is perhaps my all-time favorite trash-TV movie. I have a theory that all of us secretly cherish at least one utterly indefensible object of art or entertainment - something we know is simply awful, but which we love nonetheless. Maybe it's pro wrestling, maybe it's "The Dukes of Hazard." For me, it's this TV movie.
Cast overview, first billed only:
Richard Crenna .... Jason Voight
Elizabeth Ashley (I) .... Sharon Allan
David Dukes .... David Allan
Joanna Miles .... Jennifer Dreiser
Lloyd Bocd, is ridiculed... what can he do to warn the people?
viewer's comments:
Guilty pleasures
As a kid, I saw two movies in the late 70's about celestial bodies heading towards earth, A Fire In the Sky and Meteor. This movie was quite different from Meteor in premise alone. This was not about a collective effort to avert a disaster; it was about how to collectively get the hell out of town. Richard Crenna played Jason Voight, an astronomer who somehow knew that this desert metropolis was doomed the split second after the words were uttered from the Presidents mouth, as he explained to a group of scientist that the comet was probably heading for earth. Although this movie to me was extremely cheesy, over acted and sometime under acted, and you got to see down town Phoenix high-rises crumble one by one, I liked it. I would have to say that it is one of my GUILTY PLEASURES…
viewer's comments:
Transcendental trash
This is perhaps my all-time favorite trash-TV movie. I have a theory that all of us secretly cherish at least one utterly indefensible object of art or entertainment - something we know is simply awful, but which we love nonetheless. Maybe it's pro wrestling, maybe it's "The Dukes of Hazard." For me, it's this TV movie.
Cast overview, first billed only:
Richard Crenna .... Jason Voight
Elizabeth Ashley (I) .... Sharon Allan
David Dukes .... David Allan
Joanna Miles .... Jennifer Dreiser
Lloyd Bochner .... Paul Gilliam
Merlin Olsen .... Stan Webster
Andrew Duggan .... President
Maggie Wellman .... Carol
Nicolas Coster .... Governor
Marj Dusay .... Ellen Gilliam
John Larch .... Johnson
Kip Niven .... Mac
William Bogert .... Lustus
Jenny O'Hara .... Ann Webster
Michael Biehn .... Tom Rearden
Runtime: 2 hours 20 mins approx
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color
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