Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 109 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Violence
- Mild
- Frights
- Mild
The story
A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he has planted aboard a trans-Atlantic cruise ship. Inspired by real events.
- sea
- bomb
- ransom
- cruise ship
- interrogation
The bill
Richard Harris
Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon
Omar Sharif
Captain Alex Brunel
David Hemmings
Charlie Braddock
Anthony Hopkins
Supt. John McCleod
- Shirley Knight — Barbara Banister
- Ian Holm — Nicholas Porter
- Clifton James — Corrigan
- Roy Kinnear — Social Director Curtain
- Caroline Mortimer — Susan McCleod
- Mark Burns — Hollingworth
- John Stride — Hughes
- Freddie Jones — Sidney Buckland
- Julian Glover — Cmdr. Marder
- Jack Watson — Chief Engineer Malicent
- Roshan Seth — Azad
- Directed
- Richard Lester
- Written
- Alan Plater, Richard Alan Simmons
Production
- Rating
- 6.3 / 10 · 146 ratings
- Studio
- David V. Picker Productions, Two Roads Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
