Deadline

Deadline (1982)

It's the most lethal deadline in history and if it's not met, three and a half million people will die!

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.

Date of release
1982-01-01
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Thriller, TV Movie
Director
Arch Nicholson

Casting

Interesting facts

Deadline is a 1981 Australian-American made-for-television thriller drama film directed by Arch Nicholson and co-produced by the Australian division of Hanna-Barbera and New South Wales Film Corporation.

Production

It was originally known as Shadow Effects and was shot on location in Sydney, Canberra and the mining town of Broken Hill. It was a pilot for an unmade TV series which was to be called Foreign Correspondent.

At one stage Graham Kennedy was going to play a priest.

Production was held up due to protests from Actors Equity.

"I like the concept, it's a contemporary issue," said Newman during filming in December 1980. "I'm a news nut; my favorite actor is Walter Cronkite."

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