Juggernaut

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PG,1hr 49min

Genre:

Action

Release:

1974

Director:

Richard Lester

Distributor:

MGM

Starring:

Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings ... More

Synopsis: Following his successful foray into swashbuckler comedy with The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers, director Richard Lester made what has proved to be one of the few quality films from the disaster craze that dominated filmmaking in the mid-'70s. Juggernaut is the pseudonym of a madman (Freddie Jones) who plants several steel drums aboard a luxury liner and calls the company's officials once the boat has put out to sea, demanding a large sum of money in exchange for instructions on how to ... Full Synopsis

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	Tom Wiener, AMG Review In the canon of Richard Lester's work, Juggernaut occupies a solid second rung, below his masterwork Petulia and his Beatles films (A Hard Day's Night and Help!), as well as his Dumas films (The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers). Here, Lester effortlessly rises above the mediocrity of the star-laden, special effects-driven disaster genre to something intimate and witty. The characters in Juggernaut ... Read Review

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	Richard Harris Fallon Omar Sharif Capt. Brunel David Hemmings Braddock Anthony Hopkins McCleod

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