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Marlon Brando | ... |
Chauffeur
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Richard Boone | ... |
Leer
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Rita Moreno | ... |
Blonde
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Pamela Franklin | ... |
Girl
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Jess Hahn | ... |
Friendly
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Gérard Buhr | ... |
Fisherman-Cop
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Jacques Marin | ... |
Bartender
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Hugues Wanner | ... |
Father
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Al Lettieri | ... |
Pilot
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Things start to go wrong for a group of criminals after they kidnap a young heiress and hold her for ransom at a beach house in France. Fighting among the co-conspirators boils over shortly after the ransom is picked up, leading to a violent end for most. Written by Kevin Steinhauer <K.Steinhauer@BoM.GOV.AU>
This picture is worth time to see, but only if you've willing to invest the time to put in the effort to pay close attention. It is not a good choice as a movie to keep on in the background. The kidnapping goes wrong almost immediately, not from law enforcement personnel, but from within. We see the changing relationships between the kidnappers as the hours with their victim go on.
Added note: Try to rent the video. When NBC showed the movie on commercial television, the network added additional scenes featuring the brother of the victim working a police inspector. These scenes are not outtakes from the original movie that NBC restored, but new scenes that NBC filmed and added to make clearer the kidnappers' fate. They are unnecessary and rather insulting to the audience that the network felt they needed to "improve" the movie.