A State of Emergency

A State of Emergency (1986)

This story is about a crusading scientist out to stop nuclear testing who is motivated by scientific fact, conscience and faith. Dr. Alex Carmody (Martin Sheen) is a physicist who becomes convinced that if the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. continue to test nuclear weapons, eventually one of these tests will set off an atomic chain reaction that will obliterate the world. Carmody travels to Portugal where he tries talks to one of the women who in 1911 saw a vision of the Virgin Mary that spoke to her and her two companions about the future. Carmody is certain that the Virgin Mary predicted the very chain reaction he and his co-worker Dr. Kenneth Parrish (Peter Firth) envision. Failing in his attempt to talk to the woman, Carmody then travels to Paris and elsewhere, warning Soviet and American officials that the tests they are planning should be cancelled before they become their last.

Director: Richard C. Bennett

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	Martin Sheen as Alex Carmody
	Peter Firth as Ken Parrish
	Fionnula Flanagan as Diane Carmody
	Ramon Estevez as Brian Carmody
	William Hootkins as Earl Linton
	Tim Pigott-Smith as Father Joe Ryan
	Frances Tomelty as Jackie Hampton
	François Guétary as Jean-Pierre Belair
	Kenneth Haigh as Nathan Weis
	Daniel Woźniak as Uri Lopte
	Dudley Sutton as Mikhail S. Petrov
	Bobby Sherman as Jack Tyler
	Valerie Braddell as Jacinta
	Ted Carrere as Beale
	Richard Drout Miller as Grissom
	Bertie Cortez as Assante
	Tomasz Białkowski as Embassy Clerk
	Michael Morris as Nuclear Guard
	Nicolas Vogel as Chairman Leclerc
	Filipe Ferrer as Hotel Receptionist
	Sean O'Neal as TV Anchorman
	Cathleen Leslie as Deena Roberts
	Steven Adler as FBI Agent
	Judith Burnett as First Secretary
	Peggy Frankston as Weis' Secretary
	Bill Dunn as Researcher
	Peter Lurie as Peter
	Charles Bennett as Charlie
	Michael Finnegan as Michael

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