Disaster at Silo 7

Disaster at Silo 7 is a 1988 American made-for-television thriller-drama film directed by Larry Elikann.^[1][2] It is loosely based on the 1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion.

Disaster at Silo 7
Genre	Drama Science Fiction Thriller
Written by	Douglas Lloyd McIntosh
Directed by	Larry Elikann
Starring	Michael O'Keefe Perry King Peter Boyle Patricia Charbonneau
Music by	Mark Snow
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producer	Mark Carliner
Producer	Julian Krainin
Cinematography	Roy H. Wagner
Editor	Peter V. White
Running time	96 minutes
Production company	Mark Carliner Productions
Original release
Network	ABC
Release	November 27, 1988 (1988-11-27)

Plot

During routine maintenance of a liquid-fuelled ICBM, the fuel tank is penetrated by a falling socket. The film traces the efforts of the maintenance crew and associated military and civilian personnel to recover the potentially disastrous situation before the fuel tank is sufficiently depressurised that the stack collapses and explodes.^[3]

Cast

• Michael O'Keefe as Sergeant Mike Fitzgerald
• Perry King as Major Hicks
• Patricia Charbonneau as Kathy Fitzgerald
• Peter Boyle as General Sanger
• Joe Spano as Sergeant Swofford
• Ray Baker as Colonel Chadwick
• Dennis Weaver as Sheriff Ben Harlen
• Joe Urla as Pepper Martinelli
• Brent Jennings as A.C. Jones
• Christian Clemenson as Colonel Brandon
• Ken Jenkins as Clarence
• Maureen Teefy as Penny Travers

Influence

Inspired by the 1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion, Jeffrey K. Kennedy, one of the main protagonists of the Damascus event, was a special technical advisor for this movie.