Your Favorite Cold War Movie

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Originally Posted by grant

The Day After with Steve Guttenberg and John Lithgow. I haven't seen this movie in years...gotta find a copy!

I watched that on TV when I was in college. There was a thunderstorm the night of the broadcast that came in quickly, with very little warning, and announced it's presence by producing a lightning bolt that struck the science building which was next to my dormatory.

The building survived, but one sorority girl melted down, as she beleived that the "big one" had just hit.

It was pretty hilarious.

I actually thought Countdown to Looking Glass was a much better movie, with a more realistic scenario. It was made for HBO and didn't get a lot of attention.

I also saw Threads (sometimes referred to as "The British Day After" and When the Wind Blows which is a very poignant cartoon.

In the vein of Dr. Strangelove, I also am a fan of By the Dawn's Early Light which I may have a copy of somewhere in the massive pile of video tapes.

The original Manchurian Candidate is another favorite, as is From Russian with Love.

One that wasn't quite as distinguished was S*P*I*E*S (Donald Sutherland and Elliot Gould were so good in M*A*S*H they have to be really great in a campy spy movie with a really bad script).

I also count the two James Coburn "Flint" movies as kind of cold war flicks, even there was only a brief walk-on by actual Russians in the second one.

See, I told you there would be more.