Juggernaut Summary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Richard Lester
Genres: Action
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Following his successful foray into swashbuckler comedy with The_Three_Musketeers and The_Four_Musketeers, director Richard_Lester made what has proved to be one of the few quality films from the disaster craze that dominated filmmaking in the mid-'70s. Juggernaut is the pseudonym of a madman (Freddie_Jones) who plants several steel drums aboard a luxury liner and calls the company's officials once the boat has put out to sea, demanding a large sum of money in exchange for instructions on how to defuse bombs inside the drums. Anthony_Hopkins plays one of the company officials whose wife and children are aboard the ship, Omar_Sharif is the ship's captain, Shirley_Knight is a passenger who is also his mistress, and Richard_Harris and David_Hemmings are two members of the bomb disposal team, which is helicoptered onto the ship to defuse the explosives. As in many of Lester's best works, humor pops up in unexpected places; particularly memorable are Harris as the weary but wisecracking top dog among the explosives experts and Lester regular Roy_Kinnear as a bumbling entertainment director desperately trying to distract the apprehensive passengers. Tom Wiener, Rovi
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