Terror on the Britannic (1974)
Juggernaut (1974)
DVD9 | NRG | PAL 4:3 (720x576) | 01:45:54 | 5,74 Gb
Audio: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish - AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps (each track)
Subtitles: English SDH, German SDH, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Finnish
Genre: Action, Thriller
DVD9 | NRG | PAL 4:3 (720x576) | 01:45:54 | 5,74 Gb
Audio: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish - AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps (each track)
Subtitles: English SDH, German SDH, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Finnish
Genre: Action, Thriller
Some unknown maniac is threatening a navigation company to blow up one of its luxury transatlantics, the "Britannic", now in high sea with 1200 passengers. He is asking for a £500,000 ransom, otherwise the 7 bombs aboard will explode. An experienced anti-bomb squad is sent to the "Britannic", but although all the bombs are located, a very high skill level will be necessary to dismantle them. Perhaps that task is impossible…
IMDB
Actually, not a bad film at all: the ever reliable Richard Harris (probably getting warmed up for his Rafer Janders role in WILDGEESE) steals the show playing the slightly cynical, cocky bomb disposal trouble shooter whose tired of life and doesn't know who the good guy's are anymore! He plays the part well and is supported by Anthony Hopkins, Ian Holm, Omar Sharif and a huge assortment of fine British character actors.
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There is no nudity, profanity, endless gun battles nor a huge body count but a lot of dialog, so anybody under the age of the 35 will be bored stiff and consequently unable to follow the movie! In addition because it was made in 1974 there is no scenes with anybody tapping away on a computer or cell phones going off all the time and lastly no American squared-jawed tough guy to save the day. Fashions and hairstyles can all come back into favor I suppose but to me the most dated part of the film was when one of the support staff back at central command was drawing the bomb on a black board with chalk! That type of support would be utterly ludicrous today in the light of new technology. Never the less it's well paced, engrossing and a very under valued 70's thriller which I would certainly recommend!
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The DVD has been restored to full grace and viewers can see at first hand the gray miserable weather that you can get around the British Isles, as well as the outrageous fashions and hairstyles way back then. It's well worth a rent for all of the above! (Note: in the 1980's TV series MACGUYVER there was an episode where they ripped off the plot from this movie.)IMDB Reviewer
Terror on the Britannic (1974)
A superior disaster and thriller movie (two genres rolled into one) involving a materialistic terrorist calling himself Juggernaut and a team of military bomb disposal experts trying to defuse the bomb he planted before it explodes. The well-acted and well-researched thriller is directed with visual flare, good social commentary, a great sense of pacing and with much imagination by Richard Lester ("A Hard Day's Night"/"Help!"/"Robin and Marian"). Writers Richard DeKoker and Alan Plater were inspired by a 1972 incident where a man phoned that he had planted a bomb on board the QE2 and demanded a ransom. The British Government send in soldiers of the Special Boat Service, who parachuted into the North Atlantic to search for the bomb. The threat turned out to be a hoax and the FBI later caught the culprit.
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Nicholas Porter (Ian Holm) is the executive director of the transAtlantic luxury ocean liner the "Britannic" that just sailed from England for the States with 1,200 passengers and a large crew, when he receives a call at home from a person identifying himself as Juggernaut who claims to have planted in seven steel drums aboard the liner an amatol timed bomb device set to go off in 22 hours at dawn unless he receives a half-million pounds in ransom. The government authorities respond by having its top bomb-disposal team led by Lt. Commander Anthony Fallon (Richard Harris) and second in command Charlie Braddock (David Hemmings) parachuted into the rough North Atlantic waters to board the ship during a time of gale force winds, while Scotland Yard does the leg work to see if they can track down Juggernaut and the liner director gathers the ransom money in case Plan A goes down the tubes.
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The ship's outwardly silky but inwardly demoralized married captain Alex Brunel (Omar Sharif) has to contend with a severely rocking boat as the newly fitted gyros don't work, with satisfying the attention of his latest conquest the demanding married passenger traveling alone, Barbara Banister (Shirley Knight), and, of course, the news that because of the bad weather conditions the boat can't be evacuated. The bumbling overweight social director (Roy Kinnear) throws a costume party at night to try and keep things normal, but his efforts seem ghoulish as in the background the passengers hear bombs exploding. But the stoic passengers on their own rise to the occasion, despite their fright, and carry on normal by dancing the night away. Another passenger traveling with her two youngsters to visit her sister in the States is Mrs McCleod (Caroline Mortimer), the wife of Supt. John McCleod (Anthony Hopkins), who has to contend with sea sickness until her fright cures her of that. Supt. John McCleod is on the job in London trying to round up suspects, while trying to mask his concerns about his family.
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It has the dedicated, cynical, and wisecracking Fallon at the climax having to decide whether to cut the blue or red wire before the bomb detonates in a minute; while the captured terrorist (Freddie Jones), a disgruntled military pensioner, tells the cops you never treated me with the respect I deserved and never gave me the money a man of my talent deserved. Porter, evidently a liberal, tells the coppers "you make terrorists." How prescient it all seems, the public caught between a government that refuses to give in to terrorists and terrorists who could care less if they kill innocent people. Though far from original, the material stands up because the film is so well-conceived and executed. I can't think offhand of too many other mainstream action pics I enjoyed more and found as intelligently presented and offered a more maturely observed take on the human condition than the usual Hollywood gloss.
Terror on the Britannic (1974)
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