The Missiles of October
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Movie Reviews of The Missiles of October
Movie Review: A classic confrontation between Kennedy and Kruschauve
Summary: 5 Stars
This docudrama shows the Kennedy Adminstration at its very best. William Devene makes a very believable President John F. Kennedy who handles the pressure of dealing with the threat of Soviet Nuclear Missiles a mere 90 miles from our shores. This film is very nicely restored and is complete and uncut. It also showed how President Kennedy and his brother Robert Kennedy dealt with the pressures of whether or not to evade Cuba. A young Martin Sheen proves what a good actor he was back then bringing the passion of Robert Kennedy into the proceedings. I remember having to watch this film when I was in high school and its nice now that school children of today can now watched a restored digital print of this classic docudrama.Movie Review: A superbly written, produced, and acted movie
Summary: 5 Stars
The Missiles Of October is the superbly written, produced, and acted movie based on the thirteen days in October, 1962, when the world poised on the brink of an international nuclear conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union over the Russian attempt to base missiles with nuclear warheads on the island of Cuba, fifty miles of the coast of America. A brilliantly docudrama, The Missiles Of October takes the viewer behind the scenes in the Oval Office John Kennedy and his advisors struggled with the political and military decisions that they were compelled to make. This is a very highly recommended addition to any high-school or community library DVD/Video collection.Movie Review: The Missiles of October
Summary: 5 Stars
Interspersed with newsreel footage to heighten its gripping realism, Page's riveting and groundbreaking made-for-TV docudrama reaches for "you-are-there" verisimilitude in its depiction of the thirteen days in October 1962 when JFK agonized over whether to go to war with Russia, a time when the world came close to nuclear annihilation. Well-scripted and directed with nail-biting intensity by Page, "Missiles" boasts tremendous performances by Devane, Sheen, and Howard Da Silva as Premier Khrushchev. See it before (or in spite of) the more Hollywood-ized Kevin Costner vehicle, "Thirteen Days."Movie Review: "Missiles of October or Thirteen Days"?
Summary: 5 Stars
Missiles of October is a superior telling of the story from a historical and dramatic point of view. Its treatment of the whole event is more complete and more accurate than that provided by Thirteen Days.
Thirteen Days will be the popular choice because it is produced as a movie, while "Missiles" is a filmed stage play. This fact alone will guarantee the mainsteam viewer will turn to Thirteen Days everytime.
This is a shame because the story in Thirteen Days is dumbed down considerably by comparison to "Missiles".
Movie Review: It's Uncut!
Summary: 5 Stars
I am very happy to report that the DVD version of The Missiles Of October is uncut. When MPI released it on VHS in the 1980's, they cut a few minutes out of it...which made no sense unless they just didn't have tapes they could stretch out by five minutes longer. Also, they have left intact all of the zoom-into-the-fence bumpers which meant a return from commercial. On the VHS version they edited some of them out...which made for some sloppy transitions.This DVD is the way it should be: uncut and untampered with.