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The Hostage Tower

  • Director: Claudio Guzman
  • AMG Rating: starstarstar
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Movie Type: Crime Thriller
  • Themes: Terrorism, Hostage Situations
  • Main Cast: Peter Fonda, Celia Johnson
  • Release Year: 1980
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 105 minutes

Plot

Suspense novelist Alistair MacLean wrote Hostage Tower directly for television. A master criminal takes over the Eiffel Tower, holding the mother of the President of the United States hostage. The criminal demands a $30 million ransom or the tower will be blasted into oblivion. The cast is quite stellar for a TV-movie, including Peter Fonda, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (then in virtual retirement), Celia Johnson and Maude Adams (as one of the villains). Curiously, the director of Hostage Tower is sitcom veteran Claudio Guzman, best known for his long association with I Dream of Jeannie! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Maud Adams - Sabrina Carver; Keir Dullea - Mr. Smith; Britt Ekland - Leah; Celia Johnson - Mrs. Wheeler; Jack Lenoir - Claude; Rachel Roberts - Sonya; Billy Dee Williams - Clarence Whitlock; Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. - Malcolm Philpott; Peter Fonda - Mike Graham; André Oumansky - Pei

Credit

Claudio Guzman - Director, John Scott - Composer (Music Score), Jean Boffety - Cinematographer, Robert Carrington - Screenwriter
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The Hostage Tower
Directed by Claudio Guzmán
Produced by Burt Nodella
Peter Snell
Written by Robert Carrington
John Denis (as Alistair MacLean
Starring Peter Fonda
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Music by John Scott
Cinematography Jean Boffety
Editing by Ronald J. Fagan
Distributed by CBS
Embassy Home Entertainment
Release date(s) 13 May 1980
Running time 105 min
Country U.S.
Language English

The Hostage Tower is a 1980 American spy and thriller telemovie starring Peter Fonda and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and directed by Claudio Guzmán, well-known for his work in sitcoms. It is based on a book of the same name by John Denis writing as Alistair MacLean. The book was written deliberately for television adaptation. It is part of a series of UNACO books.

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Plot

Criminal mastermind Mr Smith (Keir Dullea) is being pursued by Malcolm Philpott (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), the head of an international peace organisation. When Mr Smith captures the Eiffel Tower and kidnaps the mother of the President of the United States (Celia Johnson), Philpott must enlist the help of spies to take him down.

Mr Smith demands a ransom of $30 million without which he will blow up the tower and the President's mother. He has protected the tower from infiltration by stealing four high-power lasers which will shoot anyone entering who is not equipped with a protective device.

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