Juggernaut (1974)
- Starring:
- Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, (more)
- Director(s):
- Richard Lester
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG
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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 (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, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 110 mins
Complete Cast:
- Richard Harris - Fallon
- David Hemmings - Braddock
- Shirley Knight - Barbara Banister
- Paul Antrim - Digby
- John Bindon - Driscoll
- Tom Chadbon - Juggernaut's Contact
- Freddie Jones - Buckland
- Jack Watson - Chief Engineer Mallicent
- John Stride - Hughes
- Liz Ross - Laura Kellogg
- Caroline Mortimer - Susan McCleod
- Paul Luty - Clerk
- Norman Warwick
- Bob Sessions - Jerry Kellogg
- Richard Moore - Junior Officer
- Mark Burns - First Officer Hollingsworth
- Clifton James - Corrigan
- Kenneth Cope - Bridgeman
- Julian Glover - Marder
- Omar Sharif - Capt. Brunel
- Anthony Hopkins - McCleod
- Ian Holm - Nicholas Porter
- Ben Aris - The Walker
- Andrew Bradford - 3rd Officer Hardy
- Michael Hordern
- Victor Lucas - Detective
- Ian Talbot - Naval Technician
- Roshan Seth - Azad
- Doris Nolan - Mrs Corrigan
- Eric Mason - 2nd Detective
- Michael Egan - Mr. Fowlers
- John Pennington - Passenger
- Freddie Fletcher - 2nd Radio Officer
- Simon MacCorkindale - #1 Helmsman
- Roy Kinnear - Social Director
- Kenneth Colley - Detective Brown
- Cyril Cusack
- Barnaby Holm - Christopher Porter
- Director(s):
- Richard Lester
- Writer(s):
- Richard de Koker, Alan Plater, Richard Alan Simmons
- Producer(s):
- Denis O'Dell, David V. Picker, Richard Alan Simmons
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG(Violence, Questionable for Children, Adult Language)
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