Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
William Shatner | ... | Jerry O'Connor | |
Hal Holbrook | ... | President Adam Scott | |
Van Johnson | ... | Vice President Ethan Richards | |
Ava Gardner | ... | Beth Richards | |
Miguel Fernandes | ... | Roberto Assanti | |
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Cindy Girling | ... | Linda Steiner |
Elizabeth Shepherd | ... | Joan Scott | |
Michael J. Reynolds | ... | MacKenzie | |
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Gary Reineke | ... | Deitrich |
Maury Chaykin | ... | Harvey Cannon | |
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Murray Westgate | ... | Archie Standler |
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Ken Anderson | ... | Willis |
Sully Boyar | ... | FBI Chief | |
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Patrick Brymer | ... | Jesus Freak |
Jackie Burroughs | ... | Woman Agent |
A South American quasi-revolutionary/guerilla/terrorist and a misled, admiring girl compatriot manage to kidnap the U.S. President during a diplomatic visit to Toronto. With a nondescript armored truck, crudely yet somehow elaborately rigged with high explosives (and the President trapped inside), the two terrorists keep the Secret Service at bay until in the end, Assanti is killed and Shatner has to find a way into the truck anyway. Written by Romulus <romulus@shore.net>
Latin American terrorists abduct the President of the United States while he is on a state trip in Toronto. The Secret Service have to devise a plan to get him back alive.
This Canadian political thriller features Captain Kirk - I mean William Shatner - in a starring role as the head of the American Secret Service. It's always kind of fun watching him in contemporary roles and in this one he even gets to utter an f-bomb which was a bonus. He's pretty good value here and the main reason I am guessing anyone would actively seek this one out. Starring alongside him is one of those reliable 70's stalwarts, Hal Holbrook, who gets to play the President. The film itself really starts out pretty well and by the half-way point it has set in motion a pretty intriguing scenario. It would only be fair to say though that in the second half it kind of peters out a bit and the varied action and events of the set-up culminate with a situation that can best be described as a man in a van. Still, it ultimately is decent enough fare and the Toronto setting I quite liked. It certainly had the potential to be better though.