The Three Hostages

Name: The Three Hostages
Genre: Drama
Released: 1977-12-27
Duration: 1 h 25 min
Cast: Barry Foster, Diana Quick, John Castle

TV Movie
1977
1h 25m

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Drama

After World War I, Richard Hannay is married to Mary and living peacefully in the Cotswolds, when he receives a request to help solve the mysterious kidnapping of the children of three promi... Read allAfter World War I, Richard Hannay is married to Mary and living peacefully in the Cotswolds, when he receives a request to help solve the mysterious kidnapping of the children of three prominent people. Given nothing to go on but a few mysterious clues, Hannay, assisted by friend... Read allAfter World War I, Richard Hannay is married to Mary and living peacefully in the Cotswolds, when he receives a request to help solve the mysterious kidnapping of the children of three prominent people. Given nothing to go on but a few mysterious clues, Hannay, assisted by friends like Sandy Arbuthnot, must track down the dastardly villains behind the plot before it's... Read all

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Nominated for 2 BAFTA Awards
- 2 nominations total

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Trivia
In 1964 Alfred Hitchcock announced his plan to film The Three Hostages, but he later dropped the project.

Connections
Featured in Adventures for Boys: John Buchan - Master of Suspense (2006)

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Effective British stuff.

It's really a very rare movie, a TV movie actually. Directed by Clive Donner, it takes place in Scotland, in the first decade of the twentieth century, and tells us the story of a detective hired by a wealthy man to investigate of three people disappearance. Our lead begins his task and has to face off with some high society - wealthy too - people, in men's clubs, where he will discover very weird things happening here. Things around occultism and paranormal activities in order to monitoring human souls. And then he will find some details leading him to the hostages.

Some times this story is a bit boring, the viewer can fall asleep, as the lead in one or two sequences, but the whole feature, after viewing it, is fairly interesting. Especially the ending.

Catch it if you can.