The Fifth Missile

The Fifth Missile
Genre	Drama Thriller
Written by	Eric Bercovici Frank M. Robinson Thomas N. Scortia
Directed by	Larry Peerce
Starring	Robert Conrad Sam Waterston David Soul
Music by	Pino Donaggio
Country of origin	Italy United States
Original language(s)	English
Production
Executive producer(s)	Eric Bercovici
Producer(s)	Arthur Fellows Frederick Muller (associate producer)
Cinematography	Cristiano Pogany
Editor(s)	Maureen O'Connell Jack Tucker
Running time	150 minutes
Production company(s)	Bercovici/St.Johns Productions Cinecittà MGM/UA Television
Distributor	NBC
Release
Original network	NBC
Original release	February 23, 1986 (1986-02-23) (U.S.)

The Fifth Missile is a 1986 TV movie starring Robert Conrad, Sam Waterston and David Soul about an American ballistic missile submarine, based on the novel The Gold Crew by Frank M. Robinson and Thomas N. Scortia. Her crew goes slowly insane due to exposure to chemicals in paint onboard and believes a missile test exercise is, in fact, nuclear war. It explores the inability of U.S. command structures to control and prevent rogue ballistic missile submarine officers from launching missiles.

Cast

Robert Conrad – Cmdr. Mark Van Meer
Sam Waterston – Capt. Allard Renslow
Richard Roundtree – Cmdr. Frederick Bryce
Jonathan Banks – Ray Olson
Art LaFleur – "Animal" Meslinsky
Dennis Holahan – Warden
Sergio Fantoni – Pietro
Yvette Mimieux – Cheryl Leary
David Soul – Capt. Kevin Harris
Ed Bishop – Admiral Stewart Cullinane
William Berger – Dr. Strickland

External links

The Fifth Missile at the Internet Movie Database
The Fifth Missile at AllMovie

Films directed by Larry Peerce

One Potato, Two Potato (1964)
The Big T.N.T. Show (1966)
The Incident (1967)
Goodbye, Columbus (1969)
The Sporting Club (1971)
A Separate Peace (1972)
Ash Wednesday (1973)
The Other Side of the Mountain (1975)
Two-Minute Warning (1976)
The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2 (1978)
The Bell Jar (1979)
Why Would I Lie? (1980)
Love Child (1982)
Hard to Hold (1984)
The Fifth Missile (1986)
Wired (1989)
Child of Rage (1992)
A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story (1994)
Christmas Every Day (1996)
A Secret Life (1999)

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