Juggernaut (1974)

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Following his successful foray into swashbuckler comedy with The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers, director Richard Lester made what has proved to be one of the few quality films from the disaster craze that dominated filmmaking in the mid-'70s. Juggernaut is the pseudonym of a madman… More Following his successful foray into swashbuckler comedy with The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers, director Richard Lester made what has proved to be one of the few quality films from the disaster craze that dominated filmmaking in the mid-'70s. Juggernaut is the pseudonym of a madman (Freddie Jones) who plants several steel drums aboard a luxury liner and calls the company's officials once the boat has put out to sea, demanding a large sum of money in exchange for instructions on how to defuse bombs inside the drums. Anthony Hopkins plays one of the company officials whose wife and children are aboard the ship, Omar Sharif is the ship's captain, Shirley Knight is a passenger who is also his mistress, and Richard Harris and David Hemmings are two members of the bomb disposal team, which is helicoptered onto the ship to defuse the explosives. As in many of Lester's best works, humor pops up in unexpected places; particularly memorable are Harris as the weary but wisecracking top dog among the explosives experts and Lester regular Roy Kinnear as a bumbling entertainment director desperately trying to distract the apprehensive passengers. ~ Tom Wiener, Rovi

Rating, Runtime: PG, 1 hr. 49 min.
Directed By: Richard Lester
Written By: Richard DeKoker, Alan Plater
Genres: Action & Adventure, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense

In Theaters: Sep 25, 1974 Wide
On DVD: Jul 15, 2003

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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
How prescient it all seems.
Shane Burridge, rec.arts.movies.reviews
If you show a ticking bomb, then you'd better blow something up with it

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Anthony L

A typical (but very British) 70's disaster film, full of silly errors and unlikely events that will have you shouting at your TV set (especially at the bloody kids) but it's all worthwhile thanks to a good cast, especially Richard Harris who acts like he's drunk for… More
A typical (but very British) 70's disaster film, full of silly errors and unlikely events that will have you shouting at your TV set (especially at the bloody kids) but it's all worthwhile thanks to a good cast, especially Richard Harris who acts like he's drunk for most of the film and goes around calling everyone and everything a bastard. You've got to love it!

Cast

            Richard Harris as Fallon

            Omar Sharif as Capt. Brunel

            David Hemmings as Braddock

            Anthony Hopkins as McCleod

            Shirley Knight as Barbara Banister

            Ian Holm as Nicholas Porter

            Paul Antrim as Digby

            Ben Aris as The Walker

            John Bindon as Driscoll

            Andrew Bradford as 3rd Officer Hardy

            Tom Chadbon as Juggernaut's Contact

            Kenneth Colley as Detective Brown

            Kenneth Cope as Bridgeman

            Cyril Cusack
            
            Michael Egan as Mr. Fowlers

            Julian Glover as Marder

            Barnaby Holm as Christopher Porter

            Michael Hordern
            
            Clifton James as Corrigan

            Freddie Jones as Buckland

            Roy Kinnear as Social Director

            Victor Lucas as Detective

            Paul Luty as Clerk

            Eric Mason as 2nd Detective

            Caroline Mortimer as Susan McCleod

            Doris Nolan as Mrs Corrigan

            Liz Ross as Laura Kellogg

            Roshan Seth as Azad

            John Stride as Hughes

            Ian Talbot as Naval Technician

            Jack Watson as Chief Engineer Mallicent

            Mark Burns as First Officer Hollingsworth

            Simon MacCorkindale as #1 Helmsman

            Richard Moore as Junior Officer

            Freddie Fletcher as 2nd Radio Officer

            Bob Sessions as Jerry Kellogg

            John Pennington as Passenger

            Norman Warwick
            
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Juggernaut (1974)

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