Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Mild
- Frights
- Mild
The story
A young terrorist kills and injures patrons of a Norfolk amusement park by placing homemade explosives on the track of one of its roller coasters. After staging a similar incident in Pittsburgh, he sends a tape to a meeting of major amusement park executives in Chicago, demanding $1 million to make him stop.
- bomb
- blackmail
- fbi
- investigation
- inspector
- disaster
- terrorism
- amusement park
- roller coaster / rollercoaster
- virginia
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Susan Strasberg — Fran
- Henry Fonda — Simon Davenport
- Helen Hunt — Tracy Calder
- Dorothy Tristan — Helen
- Harry Davis — Benny Neilson
- Stephen Pearlman — Bert Lyons
- G.F. Rowe — Wayne Moore
- Wayne Tippit — Police Captain Christie
- Michael Bell — Demerest
- Robert Quarry — Mayor
- Richard Altman — Mandell
- Directed
- James Goldstone
- Written
- Tommy Cook, William Link, Richard Levinson
Production
- Rating
- 6.0 / 10 · 161 ratings
- Studio
- Universal Pictures, Jennings Lang 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.
