Assault on the Wayne

original title:
Assault on the Wayne
other titles:
(U-Boot Wayne in geheimer Mission)
country / year of production:
USA / 1970
original length:
90 min. , color
premiere:
12 January 1971
genre:
Thriller
based on:
director:
Marvin J. Chomsky
film script:
Jackson Gillis
producer:
Bruce Lansbury
cinematographer:
Howard Schwartz
editor:
Donald R. Rode
composer:
Leith Stevens
cast (role):
Joseph Cotten (Admiral) , LLoyd Haynes (Lieutenant Dave Burston) , Dewey Martin (Skip Langley) , Leonard Nimoy (Commander Phil Kettenring) , William Windon (Captain Frank Reardon) , Joseph Cotten , LLoyd Haynes , Dewey Martin , Leonard Nimoy , William Windon
more:
plot synopsis:
An American nuclear submarine is on its way to test a new rocket control system in the South Seas. The captain and the crew do not know that there are secret agents among them who want to steal the system. In the end the assault can be prevented.

keywords:
made-for-TV film , espionage , secret service , submarine , rocket
war:
Cold War (1947-1989)
literature:
Marc Trachtenberg (Ed.). Between empire and alliance: America and Europe during the Cold War. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.

John Lewis Gaddis. We now know: Rethinking Cold War history. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.
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