The China Syndrome

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The China Syndrome, 1979.

Introduction and comments following The China Syndrome, 1979, with TCM's Ben Mankiewicz and guest Anderson Cooper.

Guest host Alicia Malone introduces The China Syndrome, 1979.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The China Syndrome, 1979.

TCM's Saturday afternoon host Tiffany Vazquez introduces The China Syndrome, 1979.

Popular feature reporter Kimberly (Jane Fonda) is looking for her cameraman who's stolen the film of the nuclear plant accident, checking the nearby bar where she meets gracious but cagey techs Jack (Lemmon) and Ted (Wilford Brimley), in The China Syndrome, 1979.

Feature reporter Kimberly (Jane Fonda) and cameraman Richard (Michael Douglas) rush home with secretly shot film from the nuclear plant control room, featuring Jack Lemmon, received by producer Mac (James Karen) and newsroom boss Jacovich (Peter Donat), in The China Syndrome, 1979.

As Jane Fonda’s news team struggles with whether to go with the story, Jack Lemmon as engineer Godell, with colleague Spindler (Wilford Brimley) presses supervisor Deyoung (Scott Brady) to put the reactor through a tougher stress test, after the first incident, in The China Syndrome, 1979.

PR man Gibson (James Hampton) is giving the feature-story news crew (Jane Fonda, Michael Douglas, Daniel Valdez) a tour of the nuclear plant when something happens, Jack Lemmon (as Jack Goddell) and Wilford Brimley (as "Ted') responding in the control room, early in The China Syndrome, 1979.

A television newswoman (Jane Fonda) stumbles onto deadly secrets at a nuclear power plant in The China Syndrome (1979).