The Final Countdown (1980)
Trapped outside the boundaries of time and space... 102 aircraft... 6,000 men... all missing.
Genre : War, Action, Science Fiction
Runtime : 1H 43M
Director : Don Taylor
Writer : David Ambrose, Gerry Davis, Thomas Hunter, Peter Powell
Synopsis
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