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By Dawn's Early Light

Year:
Duration:
100 min
Genres:
Drama | Thriller | Action
IMDB rate:
7.1
Director:
Jack Sholder
Awards:
Won Primetime Emmy. Another 2 nominations
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1990-05-19
Cast
Actor
Character
Powers Boothe
Cassidy
Rebecca De Mornay
Moreau (as Rebecca DeMornay)
James Earl Jones
Alice
Martin Landau
President
Darren McGavin
Condor
Rip Torn
Colonel Fargo
Jeffrey DeMunn
Harpoon
Peter MacNicol
Sedgwick
Glenn Withrow
Tyler
Ronald William Lawrence
Hooker
Kieran Mulroney
Radnor
Nicolas Coster
General Renning - 'Icarus'
Ken Jenkins
Looking Glass Colonel - 'Sam'
Randal Patrick
O'Toole
Daniel Benzali
Bascombe
Robert O'Reilly
FEMA Radioman
Annabella Price
FEMA Bunker Nurse
Ann Gillespie
Looking Glass Officer
Glenn Morshower
F-18 Pilot
Dana Kimmell
Tyler's Wife (as Dana Kimmel Anderson)
Jon Steuer
Timmy Tyler
Katherine Cortez
Moreau's Roommate
Jon Cedar
SAC Colonel
Paul Tompkins
SAC Aide #1
Tony Rayner
SAC Computer Operator
Richard Speight Jr.
SAC Guard (as Richard Speight)
T.R. Marino
SAC Aide #2
Steve Eastin
Smitty
Mike Gomez
E-4 Co-Pilot
Scott Trost
E-4 Radioman
Pat Skipper
Secret Service Agent
Adrian Ricard
Mother in Woods
Douglas Tolbert
Little Boy in Woods
Bill Moynihan
Hooded Medic
Dagmar Stanec
Turkish Controller
Ray Nazzari
Turkish Coordinating Inspector
Richard Assad
Turkish Controller
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Trivia
James Earl Jones' character spends his entire time in the movie aboard a plane. This was also the case in Jones' first film, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964). Both films were based around a nuclear confrontation between the US and USSR.
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The Emergency War Order code sent to launch the Strategic Air Command's long-range bombers depicted by the movie was "Alpha-Golf-Hotel-India-Delta" with an authentication time of "20:06:05 Zulu" and an authentication of "Sierra-Foxtrot."
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This is the second Cold War-based nuclear thriller to derive its title from the lyrics to the song "The Star Spangled Banner". The first was Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977) starring Burt Lancaster.
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Goofs
When the presidents chopper is about to crash the pilot radios "Mayday Marine One going down," but the wreckage on the ground says "Army".
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In the cast credits, the character that reads "Lt Hooker" should read "Sgt Hooker"? After Maj O'Toole's death, Maj Cassidy tells Sgt Hooker that he has just received the first battlefield commission of this war, which means he is now a Second Lieutenant.
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Once the Secretary of the Interior boards the E-4 and assumes the duties of president, the plane should have been referred to thereafter as Air Force One, but at no point in the film is it ever referred to as anything but the E-4. (It is correct for Alice and his crew, however, to revert to calling it the E-4 once they learn the original president is still alive.)
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Quotes
Moreau: Cassidy, we're going to stall, give me the FUCKING airplane!
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Moreau's Roommate: I missed you last night, so how was Hop-a-long Cassidy?
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F-18 Pilot: Everything's shit duty today.
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Photos from cast
Steve Rankin Danielle von Zerneck
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