Timeclock

Very much the weakest of the top-heavy disaster potboilers that came in the wake of 1963’s Cuban Missile Crisis, Hazzard’s wordy nuclear parable stars the great, the good and Rampton Caine. When the fictional island of Santa Martina declares its atomic capabilities the race is on to prepare the US for imminent attack. But when a device is set off that disables all mainland chronometers, the military has to rely on more old-fashioned methods of timekeeping to coordinate its defences…