In 1959, wealthy New Orleans businessman Michael Courtland (Robertson) receives word that his wife Elizabeth (Bujold) and daughter Amy (Wanda Blackman) have been kidnapped. Following police instructions, Courtland puts blank pieces of paper instead of money in the ransom package, along with
a radio transmitter that will lead the cops to the kidnappers. Once they realize they've been, duped, the kidnappers lead they police on a car chase that ends with the criminal's car crashing into the Mississippi River, with Elizabeth and Amy trapped inside. The bodies are never recovered.
Sixteen years later, Courtland and his business partner (Lithgow) travel to Florence, w...
Released:
1976
Rated:
PG
Length:
98 mins