Brilliant, massively underrated thriller which I first saw on its release on 25 January 1975, aged 11 (my review was "Disaster movie with suspenseful defusing scenes"!)
Produced and written by Richard de Koker, a.k.a. Richard Alan Simmons (lots of unnotable Bs and American TV) and Alan Plater (the Beiderbecke series).
Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings, Anthony Hopkins, Shirley Knight, Ian Holm, Clifton James, Roy Kinnear (his attempts to entertain the despondent passengers memorable), Freddie Jones & Cyril Cusack (who seems to specialise in appearing in films for only seconds cf. Harold and Maude).
Very well written, shot (Gerry Fisher) and brilliantly edited by Antony Gibbs e.g. phone conversations over action.
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