March 16, 1979 –
The Columbia Pictures thriller The China Syndrome, starring Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, and Wilford Brimley premiered in the US on this date. The film opened less than two weeks before the Three Mile Island Nuclear meltdown.
When the film was first released, nuclear power executives soon lambasted the picture as being “sheer fiction” and a “character assassination of an entire industry“. Then twelve days after its launch, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident occurred near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
The Haus of Dcaligari 