Major alarm (film)
| Movie | |
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| German title | Major alarm |
| Original title | Red Alert |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1977 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | William Hale |
| script | Sandor Stern |
| production | Barry Goldberg |
| music | George Aliceson Dipton |
| camera | Ric Waite |
| cut | John A. Martinelli |
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The film Großalarm (original title Red Alert ) is an American thriller from 1977. The director was William Hale .
action
In a US nuclear power plant it comes almost to the Super GAU , as a cooling water line by a explosion is damaged and the core temperature of the reactor rises threatening. The situation is being brought under control and no radioactivity has been released. Nevertheless, Commander Henry Stone, the responsible security officer, refuses to reopen the doors of the reactor building, which were automatically closed by the alarm, so that 14 seriously injured men of a maintenance team can be evacuated from the reactor building. Stone is known for being stubborn about the regulations. His behavior cost the 14 men their lives.
The security officers Frank Brolen and Carl Wyche are to determine the cause of the accident. While they are at the nuclear power plant and are doing the first investigations there, Sheriff Sweeney appears and wants to speak to Howard Ives, the chief of the maintenance team, because he has to inform him that his wife has committed suicide. Brolen and Wyche do not tell the sheriff what happened in the nuclear power plant in order to keep the matter a secret. They simply claim that Ives has an important repair to do in the reactor building and is therefore out of the question at the moment. The sheriff continues to insist on speaking to Ives immediately. Brolen can get rid of him with a trick. He calls a good friend who pretends to be a minister on the phone and explains to Sheriff Sweeney that he has no police rights within the nuclear power plant. The sheriff then disappears, but suspects that something must have happened in the nuclear power plant.
The suspicion that sabotage is involved is increasing. Brolen and Wyche look around Howard Ives' house and find chemicals , instructions, and other things that can be used to make bombs in his garage . Sheriff Sweeney has since received the suicide note from Ive's wife, which she sent to the police shortly before she committed suicide to warn them that her husband is about to commit an act of sabotage at the nuclear power plant. He confronts Brolen and Wyche, which is why they kept the incident in the nuclear power plant from him. He also points out that the incident appears to have leaked to the public as the streets are congested and people are trying to get to the nearest airport. Brolen suspects that his colleague Wyche is to blame for it, as he phoned his wife Judy so that she could take the children to safety. He is initially upset about his colleague's behavior, but later shows understanding for it. Brolen and Wyche ensure that Sheriff Sweeney is taken out of circulation and put under arrest so that he can no longer interfere in their investigation.
Howard Ives had a daughter who was part of a radical environmental organization who was killed in an accident while being followed by police. Presumably the death of his daughter is the trigger for his behavior. Brolen and Wyche study the drawings and discover that Ives should have planted five bombs to disable the reactor's cooling system in such a way that a catastrophe can no longer be prevented. So you have to assume that there are still bombs in the reactor building that have not exploded. Against Commander Stone's will, the two gain access to the still locked reactor building. There they find Ives alive, who then dies of his injuries. It also confirms that the other men on the maintenance team are dead. The remaining bombs are found and defused before they can explode. An automatic maintenance crane suddenly starts moving to open the reactor vessel. Brolen and Wyche can jointly prevent the crane hook from hooking at the last moment in order to remove the container's lid, which weighs tons.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films wrote: "A conventionally staged television game that downplays the possibility of a reactor accident to the level of personal vengeance and pretends that the brave are always there when the China Syndrome (meltdown) threatens humanity ".
The television magazine TV Spielfilm judged: " TV thriller with a long half-life ".
Web links
- Big alarm in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Major alarm. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 4, 2017 .