Earlier today, I watched a made-for-TV movie called, 'By Dawn's Early Light'. It was aired on HBO back in 1990, and I wasn't aware of what the movie was about till yesterday when I rented it at Jumbo Video. I don't rent as much as I used to due to the high rental fees. Anyway, I was surprisingly pleased with the movie and I find it hard to imagine how this managed to slip through the crack without anybody noticing.
They did an awful job on authoring the DVD, the video quality was in full screen and a lot of noises were visible on the screen. I imagine it was one of the early HBO releases on the DVD before they started to get serious about remastering them for the format.
The movie had a low budget, but was largely shadowed by the top-notch acting. It's based on a novel called 'Trinity's Child' by William Prochnau.
Soviet radicals upset with the thawing of the Cold War explode a
nuclear weapon in Russia, setting off a series of events that may very
well trigger World War III. The president (Martin Landau)
has been isolated after a helicopter accident and must outwit
government and military officials who are attempting to go forward with
the war. The film centers on the relationship between a pair of
American pilots who have been ordered to bomb the U.S.S.R. and the
attempts by some factions to bring them home before global Armageddon.
- Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
That's the plotline of the movie. There are some intense moments in the movie and the ending is quite well done. It's an ending that can spark off a debate between people of different politics. I would recommend this DVD to any people who are interested in the Cold War or politics concerning the dangers of nuclear warfares.
It's not everyday that I write a blog entry about older movie titles but this one struck something close to home for me. Nuclear Holocaust, it can happen especially when many countries around the world possesses such a thing. I'm not for one to spread panic but I do encourage people to take steps to make a peaceful society without resorting to wars. Wars are only justified if we are in grave dangers beyond a doubt.
There are some other nuclear holocaust-related movies I can recommend for you and none of them are recent. Testament is a very emotional film about a family struggling to deal with the nuclear holocaust with absolutely no communications from outside the town they live in. There's also the movie, The Day After. Both of them were released in the year of 1983 and both are now on the DVD format. The Day After is also a very emotional movie, though the special effects are outdated pretty badly. Still, the acting and story is top-notch. Americans can buy 'The Day After' DVD by clicking here. The Testament DVD, just click here. Now, for the movie that I mainly focused on, 'By Dawn's Early Light', click here to buy the DVD.
People often invest a lot of emotions into Nuclear Holocaust-related movies and that's a good thing because it is a very emotional subject.
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