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5.8/10   81 votes
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Director:
Michael O'Herlihy
Writers:
Frederick Forsyth (story)
Sidney Michaels (screenplay)
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Release Date:
19 June 1980 (USA) more
Plot:
A Green Beret-veteran businessman investigates the plane crash in Ireland that killed his family. | add synopsis
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Cast

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Rod Taylor ... Steve Donegin
Joanna Pettet ... Cynthia Donegin / Candia Leighton
Nigel Davenport ... Gray Harrison Hunt
Cyril Cusack ... Tom Moloney
Walter Gotell ... Jack Brewster
Jim Norton ... Jasper Tooms
Alexander Knox ... Thornton Donegin
Joe Cahill ... Fritz Grossman
May Ollis ... Martha
Bairbre Dowling ... Maureen
Des Cave ... Supt. Flannagan
Ronnie Walsh ... Pete Medwin
Tom Jordan ... Buck Haggerty
John Franklyn ... Capo
Des Nealon ... Tooms #2
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Additional Details

Runtime:
USA:93 min
Country:
Ireland | USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Iceland:16
Filming Locations:
Ireland
Company:
NBC Film more

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Downhill All The Way, 9 November 2006
5/10
Author: Hitchcoc from United States

While it is set up with an interesting premise, a man losing his family as collateral damage caused by some spy stuff, this starts strongly and then just fizzles. The character played by Rod Taylor is so dull. He seems to recover from an incredible tragedy very quickly, then finds himself embroiled in espionage and a need to avenge the event. There are a series of connections that he must make and finally face the person at the top. This could have been OK but its so tiringly dull. There are encounters, handled so incompetently by the bad guys, that he is allowed to roam free. Anyone who is involved in the upper levels of this type of crime would have taken one of many opportunities to just finish him off. Obviously, there is the ubiquitous briefcase, but we don't even know what that's all about. It's so obvious when a film is made for TV with so little effort to fill in the spaces. Taylor is apparently a Green Beret, but there is so little character development that we don't get in his head at all. Could have been good. Isn't.

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