Cold War pilots play sex games underground while waiting for nuclear apocalypse. What could go wrong?
Hidden beneath an airbase the elite F-111 pilots live in a secret fantasy world as they wait, primed for the ultimate war game of World War Three. The arrival of the delicious Lieutenant Madeline Kohler detonates a chain reaction of deep rooted antagonism that explodes with cataclysmic consequences.
Acting
Anton Lesser's volcanic Vincenzo simmers with barely contained menace
Direction
Attwood's claustrophobic staging traps you in the bunker
Director
David Attwood
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made for British TV in 1988, this captures peak late-Cold War nuclear dread when Reagan and Gorbachev still had fingers on buttons.
David Lansbury, who plays fragile pilot Todd, is Angela Lansbury's nephew—quite the family pivot from Murder, She Wrote.
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