Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Richard Attenborough, Kim Cattrall, Isabelle Huppert, Brigitte Ariel,
Plot: In a bold coup a Palestinian terrorist group captures the yacht Rosebud and kidnaps the millionaires five daughters on it. At first they demand film clips to be shown on major European TV stations. Undercover agent Martin is hired to hunt the terrorists down.
Action and politics in ’70s thrillers
Thrillers may exploit real-world issues for story material, but often distort and trivialize reality in their quest to entertain. The terrorism which erupted and spread during the 1970s is used in quite different ways in Otto Preminger’s […]