North Sea Hijack

Product Information

Then when I married I discovered to my horror that my wife also had five sisters, all unmarried and all expecting my support. As the British Admiral forced to deal with Kramer and company, James Mason turns in a crusty performance. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our site, provide personalised content and advertising, analyse our traffic, and ensure you see more of what you love. Esther is the name of the transfer ship that supplies Ruth, the oil drilling rig, and Jennifer is the gargantuan production rig.

The acting is solid enough especially from the stars Roger Moore, Anthony Perkins as the criminal leader and James Mason as the head of the navy. The bearded, curmudgeonly ffolkes favors Edwardian suits, does petit point and loves Scotch and cats. Ffolkes is a fellow who despises women is only wanting companionship of those of the feline persuasion and is a singularly short tempered and quite arrogant individual.And if you look closely, you can actually see Perkins turning to Mason and saying, "I was in Psycho you know!

Ffolks is a misogynistic man who dislike of women due to a failed marriage and having several sisters as opposed to being a ladies man; being moody, cranky and cantankerous . Even aging a bit in the last couple, be brought style and insouciance to a franchise that was slowly going off the tracks. Also check it out for nice performances by James Mason as an admiral in the Royal Navy and Faith Brook as a British Prime Minister who looks and acts suspiciously like Margaret Thatcher. Evidently, Roger Moore had a grand time playing Ffolkes because this qualifies as his most robust, forceful portrayal in years.And our stiff-upper lipped hero doesn't have an easy time thwarting the nefarious, loud-mouthed Kramer. In strolls Andrew McLaglen, "I used to direct John Wayne movies once", and there's Roger Moore, a smug grin on his face, he doesn't need to say anything, he has got the James Bond franchise to fall back on, North Sea Hijack is merely the chance to have a good time and get paid for it. Almost equally good is Anthony Perkins's no-nonsense villain, whose own considerable intelligence trips up ffolkes a couple of times, enough to keep the movie tense and exciting throughout.

As the villain Anthony Perkins is wonderfully loopy as a man who thinks that he's gotten all of the bases covered.If I have a serious problem there's a couple of unexplained events such as the boat crew deciding to bump off the hijackers and Kramer suddenly without any explanation realising there's a plot to kill him and his colleagues . Everything about "Ffolkes" goes against the grain of the typical, well-mannered, saintly Moore image.

If the British Crown refuses to fork over, Kramer threatens to blast Esther, Ruth and Jennifer, along with himself and his henchmen, and more than 600 innocent people aboard the rigs and ship off the face of the earth.McLaglen keeps things moving along, and the setting is at least a bit different from the usual scenarios. McLaglen's picture and despite the talented and eclectic cast assembled, in my opinion, it's pretty bland and mediocre. This picture and its source Jack Davies 'Esther, Ruth and Jennifer' novel were both first released in the same 1979 year ; the meaning and relevance of this movie's source novel is that the three names refer to the three sea-based entities that are threatened to be blown-up in the story in both the book and the film. The best thing about this film is Roger Moore's main character, the misogynistic cat lover Rufus Excalibur ffolkes. Of course it isn't long before he has to put his ideas to the test as a group of criminals hijack a Norwegian supply vessel, plant bombs on two rigs then demand a ransom of twenty five million pounds within twenty four hours.