Ice Station Zebra? "The first thing we do, we kill all the lawyers smash the shit out of the radio" was a classic Alistair MacLean trope.
idk the movie described in this thread sounds different.
There is a Cold War thriller, which for the life of me I can’t remember the name…. Anyways, about a radar station north of the Arctic Circle, probably the DEW line, in the dead of the winter.
Classic plot: a bad guy, presumably a Soviet operative, thrashes the station, including the only short wave radio. Left several dead operators but our hero somehow survives.
Our hero finds a damaged resistor on the radio, and proceeded to fix it with the graphite from a #2 pencil.
30 years ago ... ouch
Glad I'm not the only one thinking of this movie.
Screamers (1995) - Official Trailer
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Crabs! (2021)
Dude in a wheelchair builds himself an exoskeleton and goes to the prom party, though the storyline is about Crabs!
Invalid - 2023 - Movie Trailer - English Subtitles
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