# What movie am I thinking of? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 24, 2011, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-am-i-thinking-of/586752 "2011-06-24T20:00:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-am-i-thinking-of/586752/1 "2011-06-24T20:00:04Z")
It’s a least 25 years old, maybe 30. Some terrorists break into a mansion and take dignitaries hostage. Their demand is an atomic bomb be detonated in England. Then some elite force of commandos go in and take the terrorists out. I can’t think of the name of this flick. Theres another movie where some guys take hostages at a missile site or space center (I forget which) and demand some information be released regarding the Vietnam war (as to why we fought it). My memory of this film is extremely sketchy, so these details may be wrong. What was the name of this movie? There was another movie where a scientist built an atom bomb in the USA. When commandos raid his place it detonates. I think that was a made-for-tv movie. What was it’s name? ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-am-i-thinking-of/586752/2 "2011-06-24T21:08:50Z")
It was called The Final Option, with Lewis Collins and Tony Doyle from the UK TV show The Professionals, plus Judy Davis, Richard Widmark and Edward Woodward. A homegrown terrorist group called The People’s Lobby, headed by a poor little rich girl (think Patty Hearst type), is infiltrated by an SAS soldier. Most of the film takes place during a hostage situation at an embassy. It was from a pulpy paperback called Who Dares Wins. Loved it as a kid. Film can be found here- [The Final Option (1982) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083941/) 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Library\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cab0a1/32.png) [@Library\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Library_Boy)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-am-i-thinking-of/586752/3 "2011-06-24T21:14:00Z")
The second one may have been “Twilight’s Last Gleaming” [Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076845/) ---
**Author:** ![Damfino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Damfino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damfino)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-am-i-thinking-of/586752/4 "2011-06-24T21:16:43Z")
Possibly [Who Dares Wins](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Dares_Wins_%28film%29) for the first movie.It came out shortly after the Iranian Embassy siege and the SAS became famous. ---
**Author:** ![Damfino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Damfino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damfino)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-am-i-thinking-of/586752/5 "2011-06-24T21:21:07Z")
Beaten to it by **moirai**! However _The Final Option_ is the US title, as the SAS motto may not be familiar in America. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-am-i-thinking-of/586752/6 "2011-06-24T21:22:12Z")
[QUOTE=pkbites] There was another movie where a scientist built an atom bomb in the USA. When commandos raid his place it detonates. I think that was a made-for-tv movie. What was it’s name? [/QUOTE] Was it “Special Bulletin”? > **[Special Bulletin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Bulletin)** > > Special Bulletin is a 1983 American drama television film directed by Edward Zwick and written by Marshall Herskovitz, based on a story by both. It was an early collaboration between the two, who would later produce such series as thirtysomething and My So-Called Life. The film was first broadcast March 20, 1983 on NBC as part of NBC Sunday Night at the Movies. > In the film, a terrorist group brings a homemade atomic bomb aboard a tugboat in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina in order to... ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-am-i-thinking-of/586752/7 "2011-06-24T21:48:05Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > It’s a least 25 years old, maybe 30. Some terrorists break into a mansion and take dignitaries hostage. Their demand is an atomic bomb be detonated in England. Then some elite force of commandos go in and take the terrorists out. I can’t think of the name of this flick. _The Final Option._ Bizarre. I was thinking of this movie just yesterday despite the fact that I haven’t seen it in over 20 years. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-am-i-thinking-of/586752/8 "2011-06-24T22:08:32Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > There was another movie where a scientist built an atom bomb in the USA. When commandos raid his place it detonates. I think that was a made-for-tv movie. What was it’s name? My guess is [_The Mouse that Roared,_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_mouse_that_roared) though the details are not quite as you remember them. As the Army of Grand Fenwick is making off with the quodium bomb, we see a mushroom cloud – but then a voice-over tells us that this is just to prepare the audience for what **could** happen at any moment. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-am-i-thinking-of/586752/9 "2011-06-25T16:41:55Z")
> [@Moirai](#): > > It was called The Final Option That’s the one! > [@Library\_Boy](#): > > The second one may have been “Twilight’s Last Gleaming” [Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076845/) That’s it! > [@mlees](#): > > Was it “Special Bulletin”? > > [Special Bulletin - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Bulletin) And that makes it three. Thanks, folks. 🙂