The Chain Reaction

The Chain Reaction also known as Chain Reaction is a 1980 Australian independent actiondisasterthriller film directed and written by Ian Barry. The film stars Steve Bisley, also starring in the film Mad Max 1979 and ArnaMaria Winchester. The films plot is about an engineer badly injured in an accident caused by an earthquake. He knows that the nuclear waste will poison the groundwater and wants to warn the public.

An earthquake in rural Australia causes a dangerous leak at WALDO acronyms of Western Atomic Longterm Dumping Organisation, a nuclear waste storage facility. Heinrich Schmidt Ross Thompson an engineer badly contaminated in the accident, knows that the leak will poison the groundwater for hundreds of miles around and wants to warn the public. His boss, however, is only interested in protecting himself and believes that the accident should be covered up, when in fact the contamination risks thousands of lives. Heinrich escapes from the facility but is badly injured. Lost in the woods and suffering from amnesia, he is rescued by Larry Stilson Steve Bisley, a car mechanic on holiday, and his wife Carmel ArnaMaria Winchester. As Heinrich tries to piece together his memories of what happened, his boss thugs are quickly closing in on the trio.The film was the idea of director Ian Barry. He had been talking to producer David Elfick about making a film called Sparks about a blind film director, based on a short film he had made, but Elfick thought the subject matter would be too difficult to finance. Barry had written another film, a thriller then entitled The Man at the Edge of the Freeway, and Elfick decided to make that instead. The movie was budgeted at 600,000 but the Australian Film Commission thought it was too high so it was rebudgeted at 450,000. George Miller came on the project as associate producer. ........

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