A State of Emergency
A State of Emergency
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.
Cast
Charles Bennett
as Charlie
Peter Lurie
as Peter
Dudley Sutton
as Mikhail S. Petrov
Steven Adler
as FBI Agent
Bill Dunn
as Researcher
Martin Sheen
as Alex Carmody
Kenneth Haigh
as Nathan Weis
Bobby Sherman
as Jack Tyler
Nicolas Vogel
as Chairman Leclerc
Judith Burnett
as First Secretary
Peter Firth
as Ken Parrish
Fionnula Flanagan
as Diane Carmody
William Hootkins
as Earl Linton
François Guétary
as Jean-Pierre Belair
Filipe Ferrer
as Hotel Receptionist
Ramon Estevez
as Brian Carmody
Tim Pigott-Smith
as Father Joe Ryan
Frances Tomelty
as Jackie Hampton
Valerie Braddell
as Jacinta
