Survivor

An astronaut returns from space after triggering a nuclear war... Sounds like a great premise for a movie, right? It is a great premise, unfortunately it loses a little in the execution. I'm talking about Michael Shackleton's only feature film as a director, and I wouldn't be surprised if Survivor (1987) is what killed his career. Survivor has a pretty small cast, and the major characters consist of Chip Mayer (One of the replacement Duke boys from Dukes of Hazzard) playing the title role of "Survivor" and Richard Moll who's probably best known as the bailiff Bull Shannon from "Night Court". Richard Moll also has the distinction of being in this movie called "Survivor" and a movie "The Survivor" from 1998 which has no relation to this movie - two bad decisions in one career...