A State of Emergency (1986)
Synopsis
This story is about a crusading scientist out to stop nuclear testing who is motivated by scientific fact, conscience and faith. Dr. Alex Carmody (Martin Sheen) is a physicist who becomes convinced that if the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. continue to test nuclear weapons, eventually one of these tests will set off an atomic chain reaction that will obliterate the world. Carmody travels to Portugal where he tries talks to one of the women who in 1911 saw a vision of the Virgin Mary that spoke to her and her two companions about the future. Carmody is certain that the Virgin Mary predicted the very chain reaction he and his co-worker Dr. Kenneth Parrish (Peter Firth) envision. Failing in his attempt to talk to the woman, Carmody then travels to Paris and elsewhere, warning Soviet and American officials that the tests they are planning should be cancelled before they become their last.
Release Date: 1986-11-01
Runtime: 97 minutes
Director: Richard C. Bennett
Budget: $5 USD
Top Cast
- Martin Sheen as Alex Carmody
- Peter Firth as Ken Parrish
- Fionnula Flanagan as Diane Carmody
- Ramon Estevez as Brian Carmody
- William Hootkins as Earl Linton
- Tim Pigott-Smith as Father Joe Ryan
- Frances Tomelty as Jackie Hampton
- François Guétary as Jean-Pierre Belair
- Kenneth Haigh as Nathan Weis
- Daniel Woźniak as Uri Lopte
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