Deadline (1982)
Overview
A journalist sets out to report on a minor earthquake in the Australian outback, and finds that the tremor was a result of a small nuclear explosion - part of an extortion threat that has the government fearing nuclear blackmail. With the help of local reporters, and despite the harassment of the security agencies, he sets out to avert the crisis.
What is Deadline about?
A journalist sets out to report on a minor earthquake in the Australian outback, and finds that the tremor was a result of a small nuclear explosion - part of an extortion threat that has the government fearing nuclear blackmail. With the help of local reporters, and despite the harassment of the security agencies, he sets out to avert the crisis. Deadline is a Thriller, TV Movie movie, released on 1982-01-01, runtime 94 minutes.
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Directed by
Arch Nicholson
Cast
- Barry Newman as Barney Duncan
- Bill Kerr as Willliam Ashby
- Trisha Noble as Gillian Boles
- Alwyn Kurts as Jack McGinty
- John Ewart as Sam O'Bannon
- Bruce Spence as Towie
- Willie Fennell as Old Alf
- Vincent Ball as Prime Minister
- Erin Pearce as Ernie Kramer
- Noel Trevarthen as Kimball
- Jeff Ashby as Deighton
- Kevin Miles as Thurber
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