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Without Warning is an American CBS TV movie, directed by Robert Iscove, featuring veteran news anchor Sander Vanocur and reporter Bree Walker as themselves covering a breaking news story of three meteor fragments crashing into the Earth's Northern Hemisphere. The film, which premiered on Halloween night, October 31, 1994, is presented as if it were an actual breaking news event, complete with remote reports from reporters. The executive producer was David L. Wolper, who produced a number of mockumentary-style films from the 1960s onward.
Without Warning | |
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Directed by | Robert Iscove |
Written by | Peter Lance (teleplay and story) Jeremy Thorn (story) Walon Green (story) |
Music by | Craig Safan |
Cinematography | John Beymer |
Edited by | Martin Nicholson Fred Peterson |
Distributed by | CBS |
Release date | October 30, 1994 |
Running time | 100 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Screenplay
Broadcast eleven years after a similar program, Special Bulletin, Without Warning starts in an identical fashion, with the beginning of "regular programming", in this case the opening of a murder mystery film with the title Without Warning, starring Loni Anderson (appearing in a cameo). Within moments, however, the program is interrupted with a news bulletin of a series of three earthquakes, one of them located in the Thunder Basin area of Wyoming. The "movie" resumes but a few moments later is interrupted for good as coverage begins of a Halloween night meteor impact on the United States.
Over the course of the film it is learned that additional impacts had been reported in southern France and a remote area of China. A scientist notes that the objects hit in a mathematically precise way and suggests the impacts may have been deliberate.
Soon, lone survivors are found at the Wyoming and France impact sites: a young girl and a young Frenchman. The girl had been reported missing from a city hundreds of miles away from the impact. Both people are severely burned and are speaking in unintelligible syllables.
The three impact sites begin broadcasting an ear-piercing radio signal that cripples aircraft flying within latitudes immediately surrounding the impacts. Then, another larger object is detected moving towards the North Pole. The United States, despite protests from world leaders and scientists, orders several aircraft to intercept the object before it impacts with the earth and destroy it using nuclear weapons. This is successful, although all the aircraft are destroyed, apparently by a signal coming from the new object.
A scientist, named Dr. Avram Mandel, who has been studying the impacts is flown by an F-16 to a U.S. military base where reporters are being briefed on the latest incident. He reveals that his determination is that the impacts were in fact an attempt at first contact by an alien species and that, by destroying the follow-up aircraft, Earth has declared war on the aliens. As if that wasn't enough, more than two-thirds of the public (or 72% for that matter) now believe that the objects have been connected to alien life, according to a telephone poll.
Other mysteries occur. At one point, the population of an entire town vanishes without a trace. It has been suggested that this occurred not as a result of the attacks, but in fact may have been a reference to one of the more extreme interpretations of the rapture. The town's name is Faith, Wyoming, supporting this reference.
Dr. Mandel's fears are confirmed when he later reveals that there are three more objects, each 2 miles wide, approaching Earth. Unlike last time, when they were aimed (intentionally, it is suggested) at lightly inhabited areas, these new objects have been directly aimed at Washington, D.C., Moscow, and Beijing—not coincidentally, the capital cities of the three biggest holders of nuclear weapons. Over the course of the night, the young Frenchman and the young girl are identified as Jean-Paul Chounard and 8-year-old Kimberly Hastings, respectively, before eventually dying.
Over the next few tense minutes, nuclear weapons are launched to intercept these three objects successfully (although Washington is nearly hit).
With a sigh of relief, the news anchors report success. Meanwhile, scientists are able to finally decipher the young girl and the young Frenchman's speech. It turns out they are each speaking a fragment of a message. When combined (although not complete as the assumed third survivor is never located), the message appears to be reciting of the message from the U.N. Secretary General that had been included on a special recording sent with the Voyager space probes.
Moments later, astronomers detect hundreds more asteroids, all heading towards Earth. As Sander Vanocur and a terrified Dr. Caroline Jaffe, realizing that aliens were indeed behind all that has happened, await the inevitable destruction of the planet, hearing reports of cities and entire countries being destroyed worldwide, Vanocur solemnly quotes from William Shakespeare: "The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves" as a rumble is heard and the picture cuts to static.
The nature of the aliens and their reason for the contacting Earth is never revealed, and they are never seen. Similarly the exact nature or reasoning of their "hello" message—the crashing of three meteor-like objects into Earth—is left a mystery, as is the intent and purpose of the follow-up vessel that is destroyed by the military. A third survivor of the original impacts is assumed throughout, but given the remote region in which the Chinese impact occurred, this individual is never located during the time frame of the film.
- Sander Vanocur as Himself
- Jane Kaczmarek as Dr. Caroline Jaffe
- Bree Walker Lampley as Herself
- Dwier Brown as Matt Jensen
- Brian McNamara as Mike Curtis
- James Morrison as Paul Whitaker
- Ashley Peldon as Kimberly Hastings
- James Handy as Dr. Norbert Hazelton
- Kario Salem as Dr. Avram Mandel
- Spencer Garrett as Paul Collingwood
- Gina Hecht as Barbara Shiller
- John de Lancie as Barry Steinbrenner
- Patty Toy as Denise Wong
- Dennis Lipscomb as Dr. Robert Pearlman
- Ron Canada as Terrence Freeman
- Victor Wilson as Mark Manetti
- John M. Jackson as Dale Powell
- Ernie Anastos as Himself
- Phillip Baker Hall as Dr. Kurt Lowden
- Jim Pirri as Robert Marino
- Alan Scarfe as General Lucian Alexander
- Cynthia Allison as Herself
- Arthur C. Clarke as Himself
- Sandy Hill as Herself
- Michelle Holden as Herself
- Mario Machado as Himself
- Warren Olney as Himself
- Saida Pagan as Herself
- Richard Saxton as Himself
- Debra Snell as Herself
Co-Starring
- Randy Crowder as Deputy Anson Peters
- Frank Bruynbroek as Jean-Paul Chounard
- Diana Frank as Sylvie Chounard
- Marnie McPhail as Donna Hastings
- Sherri Paysinger as Pamela Barnes
- Robert Peters as Dwayne Haskell
- Lou Beatty Jr. as Dr. Jonas Tremblay
- John DeMita as Major Powers
- Tyler Cole Malinger as Tyler O'Neal
- Marnie Mosiman as Annie O'Neal
- Armand Schultz as David Case
The film employed "accelerated time" (i.e. events said to have taken place an hour apart actually take place a few minutes apart), among other storytelling devices to make it clear to viewers paying attention that it was not real. This, combined with the casting of Jane Kaczmarek, a recognizable actress, as well as several other well-known performers in secondary roles (such as Star Trek: The Next Generation guest star John de Lancie as a reporter), was expected to alleviate any concerns that the story being shown was actually happening. Ron Canada, who appeared in the film as a science author being interviewed by Sander Vanocur, had previously worked as a television news reporter for stations in Baltimore and Washington, D.C. during the 1970s before becoming an actor. However, the casting of noted (albeit retired) news anchor Vanocur and noted journalist Bree Walker (who had previously anchored for Los Angeles CBS O&O station KCBS-TV) in major roles portraying themselves, plus a faux interview with noted author Arthur C. Clarke, still left some viewers wondering.
In addition, when it originally premiered, CBS had warnings during the commercial breaks stating that the film was completely fictional, and that the events were not actually happening. Some CBS affiliates, such as KHOU in Houston, had similar warnings in the form of a news ticker "crawl" during the broadcast. The producers used actual CBS News graphics to help accentuate the feeling that it was real (though they used a different network logo, a sphere within an outline of a TV screen), however, leading to at least one uproar over the events. In Fort Smith, Arkansas, the CBS affiliate (KFSM-TV) reported that they had received dozens of calls regarding the incident and whether it was actually happening. The area's ABC, Fox, and NBC affiliates were also flooded with complaints, asking them why they were not covering this event at the same time that CBS was covering it. In several other markets, including Detroit, Michigan and San Diego, California, the local CBS affiliates (respectively, WJBK, which was preparing to drop CBS for Fox entirely six weeks later, and KFMB-TV) refused to air this TV movie.
Some accused CBS of being irresponsible in showing the movie during the primetime hours, when some children were still out trick-or-treating (indeed, the film explicitly takes place on Oct. 31, with trick or treaters featured in several news reports within), but very few occasions have happened since Orson Welles' 1938 The War of the Worlds radio broadcast that so many people have been taken in by a production such as Without Warning. The film also borrows one of the locations from Welles' broadcast. Welles used the village of Grover's Mill, New Jersey as the first landing site of the martians in his tale. Without Warning uses the fictional town of Grover's Mill, Wyoming as an obvious homage to Welles' broadcast, and the original broadcast was preceded by a brief prologue referencing the
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