Special Bulletin

Special Bulletin

103 mins | Drama, TV Movie | March 20, 1983

A TV reporter and cameraman are taken hostage on a tugboat while covering a workers strike. The demands of the hostage-takers are to collect all the nuclear detonators in the Charleston, SC area so they may be detonated at sea. They threaten to detonate a nuclear device of their own of their demand isnt met.

Special Bulletin

103 mins | Drama, TV Movie | March 20, 1983

Special Bulletin
A TV reporter and cameraman are taken hostage on a tugboat while covering a workers strike. The demands of the hostage-takers are to collect all the nuclear detonators in the Charleston, SC area so they may be detonated at sea. They threaten to detonate a nuclear device of their own of their demand isnt met.
IMDb rating 7.6
Producers NBC
Original title Special Bulletin
Directors Edward Zwick
Writers Marshall Herskovitz, Edward Zwick

Cast

Ed Flanders

as John Woodley

Kathryn Walker

as Susan Myles

Roxanne Hart

as Megan 'Meg' Barclay

Christopher Allport

as Steven Levitt

David Clennon

as Dr. Bruce Lyman

David Rasche

as Dr. David McKeeson

Rosalind Cash

as Frieda Barton

Ebbe Roe Smith

as Jim Seaver

Roberta Maxwell

as Diane Silverman

Robert Kay

as George Takasima

J. Wesley Huston

as Bernard Frost

Frank Dent

as Dr. Jason Halpern

Lane Smith

as Morton Sanders

Michael Madsen

as Jimmy Lenox

Kenneth Tigar

as Dr. Abraham Sczrsma