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Richard Harris gives a towering performance as a farmer determined to prevent anyone else buying a piece of land. This is a moving and powerful film about obsession, stubbornness and a refusal to acknowledge another person's view and the self-destructiveness such traits can engender.

Another interesting and intelligent character-study from Robert Aldrich. The film is about a small group of very different people stranded in the Sahara desert after an aircrash. Jimmy Stewart is the epitome of American can-do decency, whilst Hardy Kruger plays the introverted but resourceful aeronautical engineer who believes he has the solution to their problems. Look-out for Stewart's remark towards the end about the future belonging to people with slide rules! Faultless performances from the whole cast.

William Hurt stars as the brooding janitor in this sub-Hitchcockian thriller directed by Peter Yates (Bullitt). No-one in the film is quite what they seem, and Hurt plays the role of ambivalent hero/anti hero intelligently. Sigourney Weaver shows what a fine actress she really is whilst Christopher Plummer adds gravitas to the proceedings. Like Benton's Still Of The Night the film is well-crafted and often intriguing. Definitely well worth watching.