Juggernaut (1974)

Directed by

Richard Lester

Genre

action film, disaster film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 46m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 140 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A bomb disposal team is sent to disarm explosives planted on a cruise ship. On land, police try to identify and capture the demanding ransom caller who planted them.

tensesuspensefulgrittymethodicalclaustrophobicurgentmatter-of-fact

What happens

Juggernaut is a 1974 British crime suspense film starring Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, and Anthony Hopkins. The film, which was directed by Richard Lester, was largely shot on location aboard the TS Hamburg in the North Sea. It was inspired by real events aboard QE2 in May 1972 when Royal Marines and Special Boat Service personnel parachuted onto the ship because of a bomb hoax. In the film, Richard Harris leads a team of Naval bomb disposal experts sent to disarm several large barrel bombs that have been placed aboard an ocean liner crossing the North Atlantic. Meanwhile, ashore, the police race against time to track down the mysterious bomb maker, who calls himself "Juggernaut", who will agree to a ransom in order to reveal the information that will disarm the bombs. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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