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First Strike ★ 1985

The United States and the USSR engage in nuclear submarine warfare when the Soviets hijack a U.S. sub and aims its weapons at Arab oil fields. 90m/C VHS . Stuart Whitman, Persis Khambatta; D: Allan Kuskowski; W: Allan Kuskowski; C: Glenn Roland.

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