| Def-Con 4 | |
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| Directed by | Paul Donovan |
| Produced by | Michael Donovan Paul Donovan Maura O'Connell |
| Written by | Paul Donovan |
| Starring | Lenore Zann Maury Chaykin Kate Lynch Kevin King John Walsch Tim Choate Jeff Pustil Donna King |
| Music by | Chris Young |
| Cinematography | Douglas Connell Les Krizsan |
| Editing by | Todd C. Paul Donovan is a Canadian television and film writer director and producer best known as the creator of the Science-fiction TV series LEXX. Michael David Donovan is a voice actor for many TV shows and anime Lenore Zann (born November 22, 1959 in Sydney, Australia) is a screen, Television, stage and Voice Maury Chaykin (born July 27, 1949) is an American - Canadian actor Kate Lynch is a Genie Award -winning actress whose career spans four decades Kevin King is a Jamaican Footballer currently playing for Crystal Palace Baltimore. Tim Choate ( 11 October, 1954 &ndash 24 September, 2004) was an American Actor who starred in a number of film and Christopher Young (born April 28 1957) is an award-winning Music composer for Film and Television. Douglas Andrew Connell, WS, FRSA, is a Scottish Solicitor and Chairman of the Scottish Government 's Recognition Committee for collections of Ramsay |
| Release date(s) | 1985-03-15 |
| Running time | 88 min. Year 1985 ( MCMLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar) Events 44 BC - Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, |
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| Language | English |
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Def-Con 4 is a 1985 post-apocalyptic film, portraying three astronauts who survive World War III aboard a space station. Events 3 December - Roger Moore steps down from the role of James Bond after twelve years and seven films Eventually they must return to Earth and try to survive there.
Ironically, despite this film being about the aftermath of a nuclear war, 'Def-Con 4' actually means "Defense Condition: Normal, with increased intelligence and strengthened security measures", and is only one step above "Peacetime readiness". The DEFense readiness CONdition ( DEFCON) is a measure of the activation and readiness level of the United States Armed Forces. Def-Con 2 or Def-Con 1 would deal with potential or actual nuclear exchanges.
The art on the DVD dust jacket appears to be based very closely on a painting by Angus McKie used in SpaceWreck: Ghost Ships and Derelicts of Space, a volume in Stewart Cowley's Terran Trade Authority series. Angus McKie is an artist who has worked as a Colorist in the Comics industry The Terran Trade Authority is a science-fiction setting originally presented in a collection of four large illustrated Science fiction books published between