"1000 feet above Paris, a group of Master Criminals play a game of death." 19 September 1980 Thriller, Crime 100 mins
A flamboyant master criminal and several specialists stage an audacious scheme to capture the Eiffel Tower and hold as hostage one of its visitors, the U.S. President's mother, while the head of a UN security force tries to stop them.
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Peter Fonda as Mike Graham
Maud Adams as Sabrina Carver
Billy Dee Williams as Clarence Whitlock
Keir Dullea as Mr. Smith
Britt Ekland as Leah
Rachel Roberts as Sonya
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as Malcolm Philpott
Celia Johnson as Mrs. Wheeler
Jack Lenoir as Claude
André Oumansky as Pei
Daniel Perche as Tote
Jacques Maury as Poupon
Nicolas Vogel as Ducret
Hubert Noël as Ducret's Aide
Michel Bardinet as Legrain
Lyle Joyce as U.S. Ambassador
Jean-Louis Ducarme Sound Mixer
William L. Stevenson Supervising Sound Editor
E. Darrell Hallenbeck Production Manager
Pierre Gralhon Assistant Unit Manager
Francis de Gueltzl Second Assistant Director
Jacques Santi Assistant Director
Charles-Henri Assola Special Effects
Jack Kirschner Sound Editor
Patrick Gordon Unit Manager
Suzanne Wiesenfeld Production Manager
Joël Riant Boom Operator
Claude Suné Set Dresser
Jo Jo Iaconelli Property Master
Claudio Guzmán Director
Claudio Guzmán Production Design
Marie-Madeleine Paris Makeup Artist
Das Laserstrahl-Kommando Trailer
Der Geiselturm Trailer
Alistair MacLean – kaapattu torni Trailer
Germany 01 January 1984
Denmark 31 October 1980
Finland 26 September 1980
France 07 January 1981
Norway 19 September 1980
United States 13 May 1980
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Original "The Hostage Tower" (1980) teaser trailer. Ripped from an original Portuguese VHS rental video copy of "A Clockwork Orange" (distributed by Warner ...
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1986 WTBS ad for the 1980 TV Movie "The Hostage Tower" starring Peter Fonda & Billy Dee Williams.
WTBS Hollywood Nights movie promo for "The Hostage" on October 2 1986.
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25 December 1980
The journalist Alf Mattson gets thoroughly drunk at his birthday party, where his wife announces that she intends to divorce him.
06 September 1980
Yoko is upset when her father remarries and begins rebelling against her new stepmother. First, this is accomplished by promiscuity and partying but eventually her schemes take a much darker turn.
18 November 1980
Kay Gilbert goes into hospital for a minor operation which goes badly wrong. Based on an actual case, this play tells the story of her fight for compensation.
21 April 1980
Two teenagers on the run with a quarter of a million dollars belonging to an illegal drug ring are pursued by a suave crime czar and, after they gain a celebrity of sorts, by the whole country, which wants to partake of their largesse in their coast-to-coast spending spree.
05 February 1980
Symphonie mixes fiction with reality. The author, Romain Schneid, tells the story of his own claustrophobia in front of the camera when, when he was 12 years old, hiding as a Jew during the German occupation, he could not leave a tiny apartment.
14 March 1980
A small-town bar, open only from 9AM to 3PM and owned by Buck (Earl Holliman), is the setting where bored housewives and wandering husbands go to find some adventure in their miserable lives.
10 March 1980
A married landlord has an affair with a young man renting out one of her apartments in Greece.
10 April 1980
A village doctor is involved in a shady business.
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