Stadt in Angst

Originaltitel: The Ransom

1977
16
1 Std. 30 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

5,1/10

688

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Crime Thriller

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuA Native American travels around a resort town, murdering cops and rich people with a high-powered crossbow, while demanding that the town's richest residents pay him money to stop the killi... Alles lesenA Native American travels around a resort town, murdering cops and rich people with a high-powered crossbow, while demanding that the town's richest residents pay him money to stop the killings.A Native American travels around a resort town, murdering cops and rich people with a high-powered crossbow, while demanding that the town's richest residents pay him money to stop the killings.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

5,1/10

688

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Wissenswertes
A year later Oliver Reed would work with James Mitchum's dad Robert in The Big Sleep.

Alternative Versionen
When New World Pictures picked up the film for distribution, they added a prologue scene that had nothing to do with the actual movie. A masked gunman, who looks nothing like the Paul Koslo character, appears behind a convertible at a drive-in movie, where a couple are making out and groping each other. He takes his gun out and shoots both of them.

Verbindungen
Featured in Paul Koslo on 'Maniac!' (2016)

Soundtracks
Victor's Theme: 'Shoot Him'
Performed and Written by Roger McGuinn and Patrick Ferrell
Produced by Roger McGuinn and Patrick Ferrell

Benutzerrezensionen16

Ausgewählte Rezension

7/10

Want to stay alive?

I am a great fan of novelist James Hadley Chase, a prolific writer of crime stories, between the late thirties and mid eighties, stories about psychopaths of all kinds, gumshoes, rogue cops, femme fatales, where greed, greed was the key word, where characters were lead only by gold lust, and certainly not love nor tenderness. That said, this very movie RANSOM, is not supposed to have been inspired by a Jim H Chase's novel. But for me, I am not that positive. Chase gave us WANT TO STAY ALIVE, back in 1971, which took place in a Florida town called Paradise City - in this film, the town where the action takes place is called Paradise - where an Indian born hoodlum decides to ransom rich people; if not the killing will begin. It is a violent but tense story, page turner topic, which is not exactly the same as this one, let's admit. The Olly Reed's character doesn't exist in the novel. This film is also very good, as good as the novel, believe me.