![]() ![]() ![]() I vividly recall seeing the movie tie-in paperback at the local newsagents and pleading for pocket money to purchase a copy – to no avail. The movie was precisely what a 7-year old schoolboy could hope for, rollicking action, fantastic performances by Harrison Ford and Robert Shaw, and the presence of the impossibly beautiful Barbara Bach. It began my fascination with the books and their movie adaptations. The criminal demands a 30 million ransom or. Smith doesn't realise Adams and Williams are undercover agents for a peacekeeping organisation UNACO led by Malcolm Philpott (Douglas Fairbanks Junior channeling a little Leo G Carroll.badly) who have been tracking the villain for years and they begin to sabotage. In these pre-VHS days the only way to see movies was at the cinema or to wait for them to appear on TV approximately three years later, and every week our local Town Hall was converted into a movie theater.īut I digress, suffice to say I saw “Force 10 From Navarone” at the movie theater and loved it. Criminal takes hostages on the Eiffel Tower in ParisThe Hostage Tower featuring Peter Fonda and Maud Adams is not currently available to stream, rent. A master criminal takes over the Eiffel Tower, holding the mother of the President of the United States hostage. Smith threatens to blow the tower and First Mum up if they don't pay 30 million. Tha authorities are held powerless in the face of four stolen laser weapons that will shoot anything moving on the tower that is not carrying a special badge. president, both held for a 30 million ransom. A rescue team headed by Mike Graham (played by Peter Fonda) undertakes the dangerous assignment of rescuing the hostage and saving the landmark from destruction. The tower of the title is the Eiffel Tower and the Hostage of the title is not only the tower but also the visiting mother of the U.S. He takes control of the Eiffel Tower and then threatens to blow it up unless he receives a huge ransom payment. The movie “Force 10 From Navarone” had been released in movie theaters the previous December after serving as the Thanksgiving 1978 movie at the Maryland presidential retreat Camp David. The terrorist goes to France with a famous hostage. James and starring Roy Marsden as Adam Dalgliesh. Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues (DVD) 11.10. It would have been at some point in 1979 that I first became familiar with the author Alistair MacLean. The Black Tower is a 1985 British detective 6-part mini series adapted from the 1975 novel by P.D. ![]()
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