Fortress
Stars: Rachel Ward, Sean Garlick, Marc Aden Gray, Rebecca Rigg, Peter Hehir | Written by Everett De Roche | Directed by Arch Nicholson
It is morning in the one-room schoolhouse in the Australian outback. The young teacher, Rachel Ward (The Thorn Birds, Against All Odds), calls her class to order. It is a day like any other until the unexpected occurs. Four masked gunmen break into the schoolhouse, kidnap the teacher and her class and transport them to the countryside. Terrorized and abandoned, the victims come to a shocking realization – only they can save themselves from an almost certain death.
Fortress is one of a number of 80s movies which I knew by reputation but have never actually seen, so when I heard Mediumrare were releasing the film on DVD this month I absolutely jumped at the chance to see the film – and I’m so glad I did. Fortress officially...
Stars: Rachel Ward, Sean Garlick, Marc Aden Gray, Rebecca Rigg, Peter Hehir | Written by Everett De Roche | Directed by Arch Nicholson
It is morning in the one-room schoolhouse in the Australian outback. The young teacher, Rachel Ward (The Thorn Birds, Against All Odds), calls her class to order. It is a day like any other until the unexpected occurs. Four masked gunmen break into the schoolhouse, kidnap the teacher and her class and transport them to the countryside. Terrorized and abandoned, the victims come to a shocking realization – only they can save themselves from an almost certain death.
Fortress is one of a number of 80s movies which I knew by reputation but have never actually seen, so when I heard Mediumrare were releasing the film on DVD this month I absolutely jumped at the chance to see the film – and I’m so glad I did. Fortress officially...
- 5/15/2011
- by Phil
- Nerdly
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