Otto Preminger hired his son (by Gypsy Rose Lee) to adapt the novel upon which this boring film is based. Shot in France, Corsica, Israel, and Germany, it's a dull thriller about PLO terrorists who kidnap some wealthy young women (Cattrall, Ariel, Huppert, Ward, and Berger) from the yacht
upon which they are vacationing. O'Toole (who replaced Robert Mitchum) works at
Newsweek, but that's only a cover job, as he is a CIA agent. Attenborough does a cameo as a fanatic devoted to the Arabs, Gorman is inept as the Israeli secret-agent liaison, and former New York mayor John Lindsay
proves he should have stayed in politics. The picture darts back and forth from th...
Released:
1975
Rated:
PG
Length:
126 mins