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China Syndrome (The)

Country: USA, Language: English, 122 mins

  • Director: James Bridges
  • Writer: Mike Gray; T.S. Cook
  • Producer: Michael Douglas; Bruce Gilbert

CGiii Comment

Hollywood certainly knows how to capitalise on paranoia.

With a gay director at the helm, the paranoia is thoroughly and effectively exploited...this is just stark storytelling - with no distractions, no soundtrack to beef up the tension.

Lemmon gives, perhaps, his best performance.

One of the best thrillers of the 70s.


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The(ir) Blurb...

While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, an opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publicise the incident but soon finds herself entangled in a sinister conspiracy to keep the full impact of the incident a secret.

Cast & Characters

Jane Fonda as Kimberly Wells;
Jack Lemmon as Jack Godell;
Michael Douglas as Richard Adams;
Scott Brady as Herman De Young;
James Hampton as Bill Gibson;
Peter Donat as Don Jacovich;
Wilford Brimley as Ted Spindler;
Richard Herd as Evan McCormack;
Daniel Valdez as Hector Salas;
Stan Bohrman as Pete Martin