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Director: Otto Preminger
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From Time Out Film Guide
Preminger's wordy, sprawling, but mostly involving, movie exploits Middle East tensions with a plot about the search for five rich girls kidnapped by the Palestinian Liberation Army in an effort to bring the Arab cause to international attention. But in a world of irreconcilable differences of opinion, governments too prove capable of using terrorist tactics to their own ends. Preminger handles the dramatic exposition with a curious mixture of panache and risible heavy-handedness, making it look increasingly like a Frederick Forsyth thriller, an imbalance that O'Toole's 'star' performance does little to correct. With the English O'Toole tracking down a fellow countryman, the eccentric mastermind Sloat (Attenborough) - and the former's government agent ethics perhaps more dubious than the latter's - the film engagingly if irrelevantly suggests that Perfidious Albion is still capable of pulling a few strings in world power games. Doubtless, like most Preminger, it'll improve with age.Author: CPe
Cast & crew
Director: Otto Preminger
Producer: Otto Preminger
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Richard Attenborough, Cliff Gorman, Claude Dauphin, John V Lindsay, Peter Lawford, Raf Vallone, Adrienne Corri, Amidou, Isabelle Huppert, Kim Cattrall, Françoise Brion full cast
Genre(s): Action/Adventure
Duration: 126 mins
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