Original title: Juggernaut
Year: 1974
Country: UK
Region code: B
Content: Blu-Ray
EAN: 5060000705539
Image: 1.85:1 (1080p)
Audio: English
Subtitles: English
Rating: PG
Genre: Action / Thriller
Cast: Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, Anthony Hopkins, Shirley Knight, Ian Holm
Director: Richard Lester
Synopsis:
Featuring an all-star ensemble cast in Richard Harris ( The Guns of Navarone ), Anthony Hopkins ( The Silence of the Lambs ), Omar Sharif ( Lawrence of Arabia ), Ian Holm ( Chariots of Fire ), David Hemmings ( The Charge of the Light Brigade ) and Shirley Knight ( The Counterfeit Killer ), Juggernaut is an unrelentingly tense suspense thriller directed by Richard Lester ( A Hard Day's Night ).
The cruise liner SS Britannic is traveling through the North Atlantic with over a thousand passengers on board. As the vessel drifts across the vast ocean, its owner – Nicholas Porter (Holm) – receives a call from a man who identifies himself only as “Juggernaut.” The ominous voice on the telephone informs Porter that there are explosives planted aboard the Britannic , and that he will sink the ship at dawn unless a hefty ransom is paid. A race against time then begins as Captain Alex Brunel (Sharif), Royal Navy officer Anthony Fallon (Harris) and police superintendent John McLeod (Hopkins) work together across land and sea in a desperate attempt to avert certain disaster and secure the safety of the ship's passengers.
Inspired by a real-life bomb threat against the Queen Elizabeth 2 on 17 May 1972 and drawing on a popular taste in the 1970s for taut crime thrillers and disaster movies, Juggernaut is one of the most entertaining and suspenseful British films of the decade. Eureka Classics is proud to present the film on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK from a high-definition restoration.
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