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The Monday Film: Ransom

on BBC One London

Starring Sean Connery, Ian McShane

The hunt for a gang of British terrorists moves to Scandinavia when the British ambassador and his staff are made hostages. Just when the local security forces think they have outwitted the gang, the plot thickens with a hijacked aeroplane arriving to rescue them. As Colonel Tahlvik, head of national security, takes desperate measures to save both airport and embassy hostages, he begins to suspect that the situation is not what it seems...

Films: p 15 (First showing on British television)

Contributors

Screenplay:
Paul Wheeler
Producer:
Peter Rawley
Director:
Casper Wrede
Nils Tahlvik:
Sean Connery
Petrie:
Ian McShane
Barnes:
Jeffry Wickham
Mrs Palmer:
Isabel Dean
Captain Denver:
Norman Bristow
Shepherd:
John Quentin
Bert:
John Cording
Ferris:
William Fox
Joe:
Richard Hampton
Palmer:
Robert Harris
Lookout pilot:
Harry Landis
Hislop:
Preston Lockwood
Bernhard:
James Maxwell

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