Fortress

19851985
TV-MATV-MA
1h 28min

Fortress (1985)

An Australian school teacher and her students are kidnapped. She and the children fight for their lives and try to escape from their captors.

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An Australian school teacher and her students are kidnapped. She and the children fight for their lives and try to escape from their captors.An Australian school teacher and her students are kidnapped. She and the children fight for their lives and try to escape from their captors.An Australian school teacher and her students are kidnapped. She and the children fight for their lives and try to escape from their captors.

Director
- Arch Nicholson
Writers
- Everett De Roche(screenplay)
- Gabrielle Lord(from the novel by)
Stars

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Awards
- 1 win

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Fortress (1985)

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Rachel Ward, Anna Crawford, Sean Garlick, Robin Mason, Rebecca Rigg, and Richard Terrill in Fortress (1985)

Rachel Ward in Fortress (1985)

Rachel Ward and Ralph Strasser in Fortress (1985)

Fortress (1985)

Fortress (1985)

Rachel Ward and Laurie Moran in Fortress (1985)

Rachel Ward in Fortress (1985)

Rachel Ward, Sean Garlick, and Robin Mason in Fortress (1985)

Rachel Ward, Beth Buchanan, Marc Aden Gray, and Asher Keddie in Fortress (1985)

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"Fortress" explores a shocking concept which shows how easily a borderline between a victim and an attacker can be crossed. The children and the teacher, calm and peaceful by nature, when driven beyond their limits by the kidnappers, eventually respond with a cruelty and fury extending that of their oppressors. —Jaromir "Vassago" Krol <jaromirk@kr.onet.pl>

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Taglines
- For one teacher and nine children, the lesson of the day is kill or be killed.
Genres
Certificate
- TV-MA
Parents guide

Trivia
Loosely based on the 1972 Faraday School kidnapping of a teacher and her class by Edwin John Eastwood and Robert Clyde Boland. Eastwood later escaped from prison and repeated the crime with another teacher and her class in 1977. The Faraday kidnapping was in turn a real-life copycat crime based on a scene in the Clint Eastwood film Dirty Harry (1971) where the Scorpio Killer holds a bus driver and several schoolchildren hostage.

Goofs
After Sally emerges from the water while she's exploring, for an instant her hair seems swept back and pressed down, clearly drenched. During the next shot, which is a close-up, her hair looks as if it had been hastily dried with a towel, even though we never even see her touch her hair.

Quotes
Father Christmas: Get in the Van!

Connections
Referenced in A Bicentenary with Bite: Revisiting 'Dark Age' (2017)

Top review

10/10

Great MOVIE

I remember watching this movie every Saturday on TV why my mom cleaned the house. I remember it freaking me out. I love this movie. I was probably 8 at the time. I was talking to people randomly about the movie and people thought I was crazy because no one remembered it. My sister didn't even remember it. Finally two years ago a girl that I worked with was like yeah I know the movie you are talking about. However we didn't know the name of the film. It took me 15 years and a NICE NICE guy from Austrialia (that I meet on in a chat room) to help me find the name of the movie. I also want to say thanks to Amazon.com for being fantastic. I love this movie...I recommend it to anyone. Rachel Ward gives a Fantastic performance as well. Plus this movie is based on a true story.

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Release date
- November 24, 1985 (United States)
Country of origin
- Australia
Language
- English
Also known as
- På liv och död
Filming locations
- Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia
Production companies
- Crawford Productions
- HBO Premiere Films
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Runtime
- 1h 28min
Color
- Color
Sound mix
- Dolby Stereo
Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1

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