Fear Is the Key

1972

Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 66% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 66% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 2559 2.6K

Plot summary

A deep-sea salvage expert enacts an elaborate plan to infiltrate and take revenge on a criminal organization that dealt him a foul misdeed.

Top cast

Barry Newman as John Talbot
Ben Kingsley as Royale
John Alderson as Tanner
Dolph Sweet as Herman Jablonski
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1 hr 44 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Vindelander 7 / 10

A superb bit of nostalgia !!

It's aged well. I hadn't seen it in 30 years but thoroughly enjoyed this movie. A very youthful Ben Kingsley and Suzie Kendal support Barry Newman in one of his best known roles.Good story by Alastair Maclean and screenplay is well crafted to give a satisfying 90 minutes entertainment.
Reviewed by barnabyrudge 7 / 10

Undiscovered cracker of a thriller

I like Alistair MacLean's books, so I approached this film with a sense of dread. Could it be another MacLean book ruined on the big screen, like Bear Island, Caravan to Vaccares or River of Death? Fortunately, this is perhaps the best of all the MacLean's film adaptations. It begins with the most extraordinary car chase imaginable (far better than the much touted one in The French Connection) and never relaxes from that point on. To reveal much of the plot would be a spoiler, but suffice to say that the hero spends most of the film acting as the bad guy, trying to confuse some crooks that he's on their side so that he can get into their organisation and carry out his terrible revenge plan. Barry Newman is terrific as the hero, in a role similar to his Vanishing Point character. John Vernon is a mean villain, too, and Dolph Sweet has a short but pivotal role as a friendly insider. It's impossible to guess what will happen next, but the final scene brings everything together brilliantly, and leaves you quite literally gasping for air. See this soon!!
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