Add Vic Morrow to the list of memorable psycho villains in this very good thriller that deals with an employee who was fired for smoking in a non-smoking area at a rocket fuel plant and seeks revenge by committing suicide and blowing the plant up at the same time. Stephen McNally is the plant owner and moral chooses to victimize his family, taking his wife (Coleen Gray)
and son hostage, and threatening to blow the surrounding area off the face of the Earth. This creates an evacuation and it's while they are getting ready to leave that Morrow arrives much to Gray's horror.
Fraught with tension, this well done programmer from the last years of the double feature will keep you on edge even though it's pretty obvious what will happen in the conclusion. There were a lot of movies about disgruntled men as well as families being taken hostage, and this is indeed the beginning of some desperate hours. Morrow is excellent, his natural edginess perfect for this part. Gray here seems quite frightened when she's walking on the roof of the plan on a very thin layer of tin, fearing she might fall through. The use of black-and-white is perfect for a film like this, and technically, it is superb. A decent length doesn't overextend this, and the tension never subsides.
Fraught with tension, this well done programmer from the last years of the double feature will keep you on edge even though it's pretty obvious what will happen in the conclusion. There were a lot of movies about disgruntled men as well as families being taken hostage, and this is indeed the beginning of some desperate hours. Morrow is excellent, his natural edginess perfect for this part. Gray here seems quite frightened when she's walking on the roof of the plan on a very thin layer of tin, fearing she might fall through. The use of black-and-white is perfect for a film like this, and technically, it is superb. A decent length doesn't overextend this, and the tension never subsides.