Directed by:
Douglas HickoxCinematography:
Ousama RawiComposer:
Lalo SchifrinCast:
James Coburn, Susannah York, Robert Culp, Charles Aznavour, Harry Andrews, John Beck, Zouzou, Werner Pochath, Steven Keats, Kenneth Griffith, Ernie F. Orsatti (more)Plots(1)
Ellen is the wife of an international industrialist. She and her two children are kidnapped from their home in Athens and taken to an abandoned monastery by a group of terrorists. The monastery is located on a high cliff that is hard to access, and the police attempt a rescue, but fail. Soon after this, Ellen's ex-husband Jim enters the fight and has the idea of using hang-gliding riders from a flying circus to save the children. Jim and the circus members glide in by night to get his ex-wife and children back… (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
James Coburn
USA
Best movies:
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
The Great Escape (1963)
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Susannah York
UK
Best movies:
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
Battle of Britain (1969)
Freud (1962)
Robert Culp
USA
Best movies:
Roots: The Next Generations (1979) (series)
Columbo (1971) (series)
Breaking Point (1976)
Charles Aznavour
France
Best movies:
Der Zauberberg (1982)
The Tin Drum (1979)
High Infidelity (1964)
Harry Andrews
UK
Best movies:
The Hill (1965)
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
The Medusa Touch (1978)
John Beck
USA
Best movies:
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
Sleeper (1973)
How the West Was Won (1976) (series)
Zouzou
France
Best movies:
Love in the Afternoon (1972)
The Virgin's Bed (1969)
The Last Woman (1976)
Werner Pochath
Austria
Best movies:
Piratii din Pacific (1975)
Joko invoca Dio... e muori (1968)
Sonny & Jed (1972)
Steven Keats
USA
Best movies:
The Gumball Rally (1976)
Death Wish (1974)
The Gambler (1974)
Kenneth Griffith
UK
Best movies:
Tiger Bay (1959)
The Lion in Winter (1968)
Shaka Zulu (1986) (series)
Ernie F. Orsatti
USA
Best movies:
The Towering Inferno (1974)
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Defiance (1980)
Barbara Trentham
USA
Best movies:
Sky Riders (1976)
Rollerball (1975)
Henry Brown
Best movies:
Lethal Weapon (1987)
Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)
Kojak: The Marcus-Nelson Murders (1973) (TV movie)
Nikos Tsachiridis
Best movies:
Jupiter's Thigh (1980)
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father (1996)
Never on Sunday (1960)