A foreign film (Great Britain). Based on the book Red alert by Peter George. Laser disc, letterboxed, CLV, digitally remastered. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1964. Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, James Earl Jones.
Summary:
A satire in which the president of the U.S. and his military advisors struggle ineptly to avert a nuclear holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union because he fears the Soviets are poisoning the U.S. water supply.
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