Countdown to Looking Glass

• 5.9 Drama
• 1984-10-14
• 90 minutes mins

A fictional confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the Strait of Hormuz, the gateway to the Persian Gulf. The narrative of the film details the events that lead up to the initial exchange of nuclear weapons from the perspective of an on-going news broadcast.

Starring:

Scott Glenn (Michael Boyle) Michael Murphy (Bob Calhoun) Helen Shaver (Dorian Waldorf) Patrick Watson (Don Tobin) Nancy Dickerson (Self) Eric Sevareid (Self) Matsu Anderson (Matsu Yamada) Barbara Barnes-Hopkins (Mrs. Langhorn) Michael Beattie (Youth #1) Richard Comar (Pentagon Spokesman)

Director:

Fred Barzyk

Writer:

Albert Ruben