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22 February 1985 (USA)
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Threatened with recapture after a prison escape, Martin Stechert grabs a 12-year-old as hostage. He proves to be named Martin...
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(Complete credited cast) | Richard Harris | ... | Martin Steckert |
 | Lindsay Wagner | ... | Dr. Mennen |
 | James Coburn | ... | Lt. Lardner |
 | Justin Henry | ... | Martin |
| Karen Black | ... | Karen |
| John Ireland | ... | Brewer |
 | Saul Rubinek | ... | Hitchhiker |
| Dwayne McLean | ... | Youngman |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Bob Aarrons | ... | Malvern Cop |
| Frank Adamson | ... | Garby |
| Philip Akin | ... | Cop 1 |
| Richard Blackburn | ... | Marksman |
| Jeff Braunstein | ... | Berglas |
| Martin Buchert | ... | Young Steckert |
| George Buza | ... | Prison Guard 1 |
| J. Winston Carroll | ... | Train Driver |
| Eugene Clark | ... | Hydro Repairman |
| Bob Collins | ... | Truck Driver |
| Richard Donat | ... | Senior Policeman |
| Eric Fink | ... | Walter |
| Pat Hamilton | ... | Malvern Wife |
| John Lefebvre | ... | Prison Guard 2 |
| Cathy McClenahan | ... | Police Radio Operator |
| Robin McCullough | ... | Prison Van Guard |
| Michael Millar | ... | Cop 2 |
| Wesley Murphy | ... | Donovan |
| Dini Petty | ... | Newscaster |
| Simon Reynolds | ... | Jim |
| Ralph Small | ... | Mike |
| Jaclyn Stevens | ... | Karen's Daughter |
| Hugh Webster | ... | Gas Station Attendant |
| Roberta Weiss | ... | Teenage Girl |
| Bob Windsor | ... | Train Engineer |
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98 min
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Referenced in A Perfect World (1993)
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A well-made and imaginative production, refreshingly free from cliché, this somewhat picaresque affair recounts a tale of a close friendship that develops between a man and a boy under less than ideal conditions: the man an escaped convict who has kidnapped the youth for his value as a hostage. Expertly directed by Alan Gibson with a fine sense for balanced narrative movement, the film provides freshness in nearly every scene, as felon Martin Steckert (Richard Harris), believing that his rejection for parole was particularly undeserved, contrives a convoluted but ultimately successful escape plan, following which his spontaneous nature comes to the fore as he flees to the lakeside residence of his childhood. Often bursting into song or dancing a few steps, the capricious Steckert gradually gains the trust and affection of his captive and, as police close in for an inevitable showdown, the tethered pair are seen to be a great deal alike in their responses to forms of rejection, as discerned by a psychiatrist (Lindsay Wagner) assigned to aid a zealous police lieutenant (James Coburn) who is in charge of the manhunt for Steckert and his "prisoner". This is an engrossing story, worth telling, a quickly-paced and novel adventure that profits from a capital performance by Harris, fine turns from Wagner, Coburn, and Karen Black, along with Justin Henry as the snatched lad, with an appropriately whimsical score contributed by Wilfred Josephs, and top-notch cinematography by Frank Watts, with all footage shot in a beautiful autumnal Ontario province.