Sci-fi adventure starring Nicholas Lea and Malcolm McDowell. Seventy years after a secret wartime cloaking experiment ended in the USS Eldridge vanishing without trace, scientists refining the technology make a breakthrough. But the celebrations turn to alarm when the Eldridge reappears, with strange powers - and a single survivor.
In this made-for-TV sci-fi adventure, Second World War military scientists road-test time-travel technology with catastrophic results. When battleship the USS Eldridge suddenly appears in the present day on the runway of a landlocked Pennsylvania airport, its baffled young survivor (Nicholas Lea) stumbles into the nearby small town, where he discovers that the woman running the café is, in fact, his grownup granddaughter. Director Paul Ziller plays fast and loose with the events of the original 1979 novel and its 1984 film adaptation, too often falling back on cultural and societal differences seven decades apart, at the expense of a cohesive narrative. Lea, who played recurring character Alex Krycek in The X-Files, has little to do other than look perplexed at the modern world. It's all fairly nonsensical but not entirely unenjoyable, and Malcolm McDowell is on hand to provide cartoon villainy as a sinister supporting character.
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Bill Gardener | Nicholas Lea |
| Morton Salinger | Malcolm McDowell |
| Molly Gardener | Emilie Ullerup |
| Katheryn Moore | Gina Holden |
| Richard Falkner | Ryan Robbins |
| Hagan | Michael Paré |
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | Paul Ziller |
