Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast: Roger Moore, Anthony Perkins, James Mason, David Hedison, Michael Parks,
Plot: When terrorists take over two oil rigs, and threaten to blow them up if their demands are not met, an eccentric anti-terrorism expert volunteers his unique commando unit to stop them.
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 […]