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Special Bulletin(1983)
Status: Released
Date: 1983-03-20
70%
22 Votes
Time: 1h 43m
Overview:
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.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies: 
Ohlmeyer Communications Company
Movie: Special Bulletin
Top 10 Billed Cast
Ed Flanders
John Woodley
Kathryn Walker
Susan Myles
Roxanne Hart
Megan 'Meg' Barclay
Christopher Allport
Steven Levitt
David Clennon
Dr. Bruce Lyman
David Rasche
Dr. David McKeeson
Rosalind Cash
Frieda Barton
Ebbe Roe Smith
Jim Seaver
Roberta Maxwell
Diane Silverman
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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.
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1983-03-20
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