Ransom

Ransom

1974 · 95 min · EN · PG · 5.5 (59 votes)
Dir. Casper Wrede · Starring Sean Connery, Ian McShane, Jeffry Wickham, Isabel Dean, Robert Harris, James Maxwell · Music Jerry Goldsmith

Hijackers. Kidnappers. Killers. Only one man can stop them.

ActionDramaThriller

Following a series of bomb attacks in London, a group of terrorists seize Britain's ambassador to Scandinavia. With the ambassador now a hostage in his residence, another group hijacks an airliner at the capital's airport, announcing that the passengers will not be freed until their demands are met. Colonel Nils Tahlvik, Scandinavia's resourceful and ruthless head of security, seeks to take an uncompromising stance against the terrorists yet his attempts meet resistance from unknown forces at every turn...

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A grim, tense 70s thriller where a ruthless security chief faces off against terrorists. It's a procedural, grounded in grim reality, with an uncompromising stance on negotiation that ratchets up the suspense.

tensegrittysuspensefuluncompromisingsteady70s political thrillerproceduralgrounded actionterrorismhostage negotiationpolitical brinkmanshipruthlessness
airplanehijackingterrorism
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