18 hours to eternity
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | 18 hours to eternity |
| Original title | Juggernaut |
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| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1974 |
| length | 106 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Richard Lester |
| script | Richard DeKoker Alan Plater |
| production |
Richard DeKoker David V. Picker |
| music | Ken Thorne |
| camera | Gerry Fisher |
| cut | Antony Gibbs |
| occupation | |
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18 hours to eternity ( Juggernaut ) is a British thriller by Richard Lester from the year 1974 .
action
The cruise ship S.S. Britannic is in the middle of the Atlantic . Shipowner Nicholas Porter receives a call from a man who calls himself Juggernaut . He says he hid seven time fuse bombs on the ship that would explode in 18 hours. The bombs are equipped with traps that are supposed to make defusing impossible. The man demands a large sum of money. A few small demonstration explosions on the ship emphasize the demand.
Porter wants to pay the money, but the government is against giving in to blackmail. A British Navy bomb expert, Anthony Fallon, and his men are brought on board to disarm the bombs. The Scotland Yard -Beamte John McCleod, meanwhile, leads the search for the blackmailer, also driven by personal motives, because his wife and his two children are on the ship.
The identical bombs are found. All are protected by a complicated mechanism, similar to the German bombs used in World War II. When an attempt is made to defuse one of the bombs, another one explodes later. There are fatalities, including Fallon's first assistant Charlie. Fallon wants to give up, but then Juggernaut suddenly withdraws his claim, but without revealing the way to defuse the situation. Fallon has to get back to work to find the solution before dawn, as further explosions would sink the ship and the ship cannot be evacuated due to stormy weather.
The blackmailer is identified as Sidney Buckland and arrested. He turns out to be a former teacher of Fallon. Fallon is about to run out of time before the final step: cut either a red or a blue wire to disable the detonator. Faced with this alternative, Fallon radioed the Buckland police station to tell him the solution. Buckland gives the blue wire - but Fallon hesitates. When Buckland repeats himself, Fallon chooses the red one and defuses the bombs at the last second.
Reviews
Jack Sommersby wrote on EFILMCRITIC.COM that the film was almost the best disaster film of the 1970s. He praised the action scenes, the "finely dosed" tension and the pinch of humor in the film.
The film was described in the lexicon of international film as “a dense thriller”, and its “sophisticated tension” was praised. The Süddeutsche Zeitung described the thriller as "excitingly constructed" and mentioned the "subliminal irony".
background
The film was shot in Twickenham Film Studios , in London and on Maxim Gorkiy (then Hamburg ).
In 2002, Bayerischer Rundfunk produced an audio film version for television broadcasts . The speaker is Bernd Benecke.
Web links
- 18 hours to eternity in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- 18 hours to eternity at rotten tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ rottentomatoes.com
- ↑ www.br-online.de ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Filming locations for Juggernaut
- ↑ 18 hours to eternity in the Hörfilm database of Hörfilm e. V.